Since Saturday is a working day here (in the company and not Uganda), we decided to go the Lake Victoria Beach which is near Entebbe. Although the original plan was to leave around 1:30pm after lunch; but you know once you are in the office, getting out on time is not easy. We left for Imperial Beach Resort (a hotel with its own private stretch of beach) around 4-ish and got to the beach an hour later. Since we used the beach entrance to get into the beach area, we ended up paying 2000 Ugandan Shillings ($1.20) at the gates. Had we entered through the hotel gates, we would not need to pay the fee.
Lake Victoria is the largest tropical lake and the second biggest fresh water lake in the world (the picture is taken from space). It is split between Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania. It was named after Queen Victoria by the an British Indian Army office John Hanning Speke who after getting tired of all the fighting in India decided to instead go explore Africa.
Maybe it was a cloudy day or something else, but the beach did not appeal to me. Some of the sand was kinda white, but it did not feel anything like the beaches I had visited.
The resort area was nicely developed with gardens, outdoor food areas and a swimming pool (which you had to pay extra to get into).
Visit the Imperial Beach Resort picture gallery on Picasa.
Lake Victoria is the largest tropical lake and the second biggest fresh water lake in the world (the picture is taken from space). It is split between Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania. It was named after Queen Victoria by the an British Indian Army office John Hanning Speke who after getting tired of all the fighting in India decided to instead go explore Africa.
Maybe it was a cloudy day or something else, but the beach did not appeal to me. Some of the sand was kinda white, but it did not feel anything like the beaches I had visited.
The resort area was nicely developed with gardens, outdoor food areas and a swimming pool (which you had to pay extra to get into).
Visit the Imperial Beach Resort picture gallery on Picasa.
Labels: Beach, Entebbe, Lake, LakeVictoria, uganda
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Just a few thoughts....
Stop looking for french beaches (You are married)
Stop eating french fries (You need to shed some pounds)
and stop drinking red label... (Blue label is much better!)
So they've Bata there too! (pic 3 I guess)
Glad to see that the grass there looks so much as it is here in Karachi - patchy. Otherwise, I thought it is a Karachi's trademark.
The lake is HUGE but still it sounds awkward to call a lake front as 'beach'!