Good News Education Center , Kassanda

Rich and his beautiful family had longed to visit Africa since 2019. Unfortunately, the pandemic changed everything including Rich’s plan to visit Africa.

Once the pandemic calmed down, plans to visit Africa resumed. This year, on 22 January, 2022, Rich and family finally made it Uganda through Entebbe airport!

Our guests arrived early in the morning on Friday 22nd July 2022. This gave us time to first visit the Uganda Wild Life Education Center ( the zoo) before heading to Kampala city. The zoo is a little distance away from the airport. There is a variety of wild life to see in the zoo like lions, birds, chimpanzees, gorillas, giraffes, zebras, rhinos, snakes, plants, elephants, crocodiles etc. There were schools visiting the zoo on that day. The place was so busy.

The zoo is located at the lake shores of lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is the third largest lake in the world after Caspian sea and lake Superior. The lake gives a very calm breeze to the zoo though sometimes it breeds lake flies that a bit disturb animals and people. Otherwise, the zoo is a very important place to visit when you come to Uganda. It gives an overview of the variety of fauna and flaura available in this land locked country.

After having a tour of the zoo, we headed to Kampala via the southern express high way. The guests spent two nights in Kampala at Namirembe Geust House.

Rich and family had two major purposes for their visit. They wanted to visit the missionary project at Good News Education Center in Kalagala and visit my family. On saturday 23rd, July 2022, they visited us at home. It was such a great honor and blessing to us. We are forever grateful to the Lord for encouraging us in such an awesome manner by bringing us visitors from a land so far from ours !

On Sunday 24th July 2022, we visited the Uganda museum at Kamwokya, Kampala. The guests got to know a lot about the history and cultures of Uganda, the pearl of Africa.

After visiting the museum, we checked out at the guest house and headed for Mubende. The ride to mubende was bumpy for the most part. This was because the road from Mityana to Mubende was under reconstruction. Shane unlike everybody else loved the bumpiness of the ride to Mubende. At Mubende, the guests stayed at Prime Rose Hotel.

Early on monday 25th we headed to Good News Education Center at Kalagala village. The guests were given a warm welcome by the students and staff.

Tuesday 26th July, the guests returned to school after spending a second night at Prime Rose Hotel in Mubende. Mubende town is about 40 miles from school. On this second day, the guests brought us lots of books, pencils, pens , plates , cups and food. This was to help us begin another school trimester safely. May the Lord Jesus greatly reward Rich and family for their kindness and generosity.

On Wednesday 27th, we left Mubende and headed for Kasese, western Uganda. Kasese has many tourists sites like Mt Rwenzori, many lakes like George and Edward, Queen Elizabeth National park ( the second largest game park in Uganda), many crater lakes, hot springs etc. There was a lot beautiful things to see along the way to Kasese.

The site of Rwenzori ranges as you leave Fortportal heading to Kasese is so beautiful in the skies. There are also many thick Forests with lots of wild animals like Chimpanzees and elephants.

We reached Kasese late in the evening despite having very few stop overs. The guests spent the night at Kamwe Kamwe hotel in Kasese.

On Thursday 28th, we went into the Rwenzori ranges and toured hot springs. People utilize the water of the springs to treat several sicknesses.

After visiting the hot springs, we headed for Katunguru in Queen Elizabeth National park. Along the way, we stopped over at Kikorongo to tour the equator. There was a lot to learn about the equator.

We later on visited the shores of lake Edward, where we saw hippos, birds, elephants and buffaloes. In the afternoon , we checked in at Kazinga Wilderness Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National park.

On Friday 29th July, we headed for the game drive safari in the northern part of Queen elizabeth national park. There were lots of Buffaloes 🐃, warthogs , hippos 🦛, antelopes, water bucks etc. Two adult lionesses and a two Cubs and a big black cobra were also seen.

In the evening, we did a boat ride along Kazinga channel. The channel has very many hippos and a few crocodiles. There are many bird species along the shores including the king fisher.

On Saturday 30th, we headed for Ishasha in the southern part of the park to see wild life especially the tree climbing lions.

In the evening of that Saturday, we visited a crater lake at Kyambura.

On Sunday 31st July, we left the park for Kampala. We used the Bushenyi-Kampala route. We passed through many townships like Mbarara and Masaka.

On our way, we took our last and longest break at Kayabwe. We had a good time taking a tour of the equator the second time after seeing the same at Kikorongo in Queen Elizabeth national park!

On the last day of their visit, we were blessed to celebrate Jen’s birthday at Namirembe guest house.

Later on that day we left Kampala for Entebbe. Entebbe airport is 35 miles away from Kampala.

Our guests, had their lunch at Cave Javas on Victoria Mall, Entebbe. They finally went to the airport and left. It was such a great honor to host this beautiful and loving family. A great honor for Julius’ family and ministry.