Uganda is a safe and friendly land-locked country in East Africa. It has a well-developed tourist infrastructure with excellent national parks that showcase Uganda's wide variety of wildlife including mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
Uganda is slightly smaller than Oregon with just over 30 million people living there.
The DRC lies to the east and Kenya to the west, see map below
The captial of Uganda is Kampala (most likely where we will fly into to pick up our boys)
Language: English (official national language), but other languages are mostly spoken, such as, Ganda or Luganda, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, and Arabic. (English being the national language is very good for the adoption process because our documents will not have to be translated into another language)
Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%.
Climate: The climate is tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August). Average daily temperatures rarely exceed 84 F.
Currency: Uganda Shilling - as of today: 1 US Dollar = 2,509.44 Uganda Shilling - thank goodness Nate and his accounting skills are coming with us! :-)
The DRC lies to the east and Kenya to the west, see map below
The captial of Uganda is Kampala (most likely where we will fly into to pick up our boys)
Language: English (official national language), but other languages are mostly spoken, such as, Ganda or Luganda, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, and Arabic. (English being the national language is very good for the adoption process because our documents will not have to be translated into another language)
Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%.
Climate: The climate is tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August). Average daily temperatures rarely exceed 84 F.
Currency: Uganda Shilling - as of today: 1 US Dollar = 2,509.44 Uganda Shilling - thank goodness Nate and his accounting skills are coming with us! :-)
Stay tuned for more FUN FACTS and some less FUN ones as well...http://goafrica.about.com/od/uganda/a/ugandafacts.htm
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