Zula Travels

Zula Mabira Forest Mabira Central Forest Reserve is located on the main Kampala – Jinja Highway in Mukono District. It is 54 km from the City Centre of Kampala and 26 km from Jinja Town. The Eco – Tourism Site is about half a kilometer from the road head along a short dirt road off the Najjembe trading center. The Forest is therefore accessible by all vehicles throughout the year. By the time of the establishment of the Uganda Protectorate in 1894, the Mabira forest was already an isolated fragment of the equatorial rain forest believed to have once extended virtually uninterrupted across central Africa. In 1906, the forest was leased to the East Africa and Uganda Exploration Syndicate whose subsidiary, the Mabira Forest (Uganda) Rubber Co. Ltd., managed the property. The company initially anticipated the annual collection of more than 225,000 kg (500,000 lbs.) of wild rubber from the native species Funtumia elastica. This proved unfeasible and the company later resorted to ...

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS CALLED ROLEX? “Rolex”  is a popular food item in Uganda, combining an egg omelette and vegetables wrapped in a chapati. Rolex is classic Ugandan street food. The basic idea is eggs cooked with cabbage, onion, tomato, and sometimes peppers, which is then wrapped in chapati. But, as the words careened off their tongue, “Rolled Eggs” sounded more like “Rolex” to visitors. Gradually the (quite fun) misinterpretation stuck. . Rolex is Uganda’s first food which can be eaten anytime and anywhere. You can have it as breakfast, lunch and as well as super, Rolex can be purchased on any street corner of Uganda at any time. The name "rolex" comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the omelette rolled together. This idea originated from a chapati seller's creativity at Wandegeya next toMakerere University in Uganda, fueled by students who needed a quick meal because of time and budget limitations. The delicacy soon sprea...

Murchison Falls National Park sits on the shore of Lake Albert, in northwest Uganda. It’s known for Murchison Falls, where the Victoria Nile River surges through a narrow gap over a massive drop. Park wildlife includes elephants and hippos, and there are chimpanzees in the Kaniyo Pabidi mahogany forest. The Lake Albert Delta is home to rare shoebill storkst The park was established in 1952, the Game Department enthused, ‘The main tourist attractions of this park was definitely the unique Murchison Falls as well as the R. Nile , the Nile squeezes through an 8m wide gorge and   plunges with a thunderous roar into the "Devil's , streaming hippo and serried ranges of crocodile along the sandbanks, creating a trademark rainbow as well as large numbers of different species getting down to drink & bathe. Murchison Falls became one of Uganda’s first national parks in 1952 The northern section of the park contains savanna and borassus palms, acacia trees and riverin...

ZULA ANTELOPES Antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats and sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae) . True antelopes are found only in Africa and Asia ( Uganda is home to an impressive 29 species of antelope, including the eland - the world’s largest antelope, which can measure up to 180cm at the shoulder! Other large species include the greater kudu, which has long, elegant spiral horns and white side stripes; Jackson’s hartebeest - an unusual, flat-faced creature found only in Uganda, and the shaggy waterbuck - often found near rivers and lakes, as their name suggests. Fascinating yet rarely seen is the semi-aquatic sitatunga antelope, whose splayed hooves are adapted for life in the papyrus swamps. Much more common are Grant’s gazelle, which can live in herds of hundreds of individuals, and the pretty Uganda kob - Ug...

ZULA OSTRICH Ostriches are large, flightless birds that have long legs and a long neck that protrudes from a round body. Males have bold black-and-white coloring that they use to attract females. Females, on the other hand, are light brown. Ostriches are bigger than any other bird in the world. They can grow up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall and can weigh up to 320 lbs. (145 kilograms and an ostrich's eyes are 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter — the largest of any land animal. The ostrich is the only bird that has two toes on each foot. All other birds have three or four toes, It may seem amazing that an ostrich's thin legs can keep their large bodies upright. Their legs are perfectly placed so that the body's center of gravity balances on top of its legs. Their thin legs give them great speed and maneuverability, too. They can run up to 40 mph (64.3 km/h) for sustained periods of time Ostrich eggs & baby ostriches , Ostrich eggs are 6 inches (15 cm) in diame...