/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/691238/-/1nxr7iz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/Where+history+blends+with+adventure++/-/691238/1408942/-/9rwtkfz/-/index.html Sydney is synonymous with Glamour. It is famous for the parties, amazing landscape, the fireworks and captivating architecture. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/Top+tips+for+longhaul+travel+with+children/-/691238/1408958/-/gbfouxz/-/index.html There is something magical about flying when you are a child; being awed by the size of the aircraft, the anticipation as you fasten your seatbelt, the excitement of takeoff and the wonder of looking down on the clouds. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1404110/-/o38d74/-/index.html Sometimes lady luck smiles at you, bringing the most amazing and unexpected experiences in places you had never dreamed of visiting in your life. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/Flowery+experience+in+Garden+of+Europe/-/691238/1399858/-/886hj2/-/index.html With the ending of April and the beginning of a new month with great expectations, hopes and dreams for the future. Here in Europe, it is spring, the expectation is for great weather, that is, plenty of sunshine and warmer temperatures. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1395238/-/nop7nt/-/index.html If you like a green, quiet place to unwind then Griffin Falls Campsite could be your option. It is not your fancy campsite but offers an out-of-town feeling- somewhere in Mabira Forest where birds sing, it rains any time any day. 2012-04-28T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1390900/-/nolvha/-/index.html When Mani was summoned to meet the elders, the last thing he could have expected was to be given one of the biggest honours in his life. Now he has to learn to live as someone else. 2012-04-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1390894/-/noluww/-/index.html Walking the modern-day Palestine brings the biblical stories of one’s childhood to life, especially with all the important sites preserved by those who came first. The writer is often overwhelmed to be at the same spot where many of his heroes walked long ago. 2012-04-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1386750/-/no4h2i/-/index.html The continent’s porous border has been blamed for the recent slaughter of 600 elephants in just two months in Cameroon by armed poachers and hundreds of animal deaths elsewhere. 2012-04-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1386710/-/no4gxy/-/index.html Mark Twain said: ‘travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” I could not agree more! 2012-04-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1381824/-/no116k/-/index.html I was looking forward to visiting the Crusader Church because I had read that it housed the tomb of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. When I finally entered this church, I was shown a bench-like stone in a cave and I was told that this is Mary’s tomb. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1377126/-/nnihp5/-/index.html A visit to the Holy land amazed the writer so much that he believes If, like his former lecturer, Ben Bella, you have not been to the Holy land, you need to make arrangements as soon as possible, before the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, which can be any time. Your faith will be deepened. 2012-03-31T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1377132/-/nnihpw/-/index.html Uganda’s chimpanzees are fast gaining popularity following latest reports of a 22-year-old chimpanzee Natasha said to be a genius. A visit to one of the homes of the animals explores their integration into the wider community, .... 2012-03-31T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1375130/-/nnh43i/-/index.html When it comes to adventure, Kidepo Valley National Game Park stands out, this invaluable natural resource has been visited and revisited and the extra-ordinary features on it shape its outstanding beauty, which remain a myth to those who have not visited it and a secret to those who have visited it. 2012-03-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1372308/-/nnf2mh/-/index.html Do you remember the first time you travelled by air and all the hype and expectation you had prior to the journey? Such an expectation not to easily forget. To start with, after a long process of acquiring both passport and visa to your destination, your passport book is highly treasured and kept in a safer place than a land title. Some people make the trip a top secret save to a few family friends and trusted friends in the fear of being “bewitched” or the trip itself flopping. For others, travelling by air is a rare achievement and they make sure that every villager or clan member learns of it. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1372304/-/nnf2md/-/index.html From atop a tree, Makara searches with his eyes tourist visitors to his family. As we draw closer, we realise his family is converged just at the tree’s buttress. He is the guy in charge and is keeping security to make sure the visitors are not intending to harm his family and from the bad smell around, we learn from our guide that he is not in a good mood. 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1368150/-/nmwn7h/-/index.html It was on the strength of that theme that I attended a recent World of Inspiration event in Kampala. My kind of successful man has always been one with the ability to buy his own wedding suit ..... 2012-03-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1368120/-/nmwn4t/-/index.html The African buffalo is a large African bovine. It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild Asian water buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear. Owing to its unpredictable nature which makes it highly dangerous to humans, ... 2012-03-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1368116/-/nmwn44/-/index.html The landscape conjures images of century old edifices. In the rocky outcrops, one discovers splendour that one would never have imagined existed in Moroto. And when the sun rises over Mt Moroto and the small town on its slopes, the scene is so captivating that it leaves one in awe of how a place always written off as remote can be so amazing. 2012-03-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1368136/-/nmwn5v/-/index.html On October 27 2011, Lonely Planet voted Uganda the best tourist destination the world over for the year 2012. In celebration of these achievements, Sunday Monitor in partnership with Wildplaces Africa and the Uganda Safari Company will dedicate a page every week to showcasing Uganda’s best tourist destinations and what they have to offer. 2012-03-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1363212/-/nmt7al/-/index.html Jinja town is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, near to the source of the Nile River. Sunset on the Nile is a fascinating scene. Jinja is known for the source of the Nile where waters from Africa’s longest river start their 6400 miles journey that ends in the Mediterranean Sea. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1363218/-/nmt7ar/-/index.html Stepping in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, one would think of disembarking from the plane at Entebbe International airport due to similarities of water bodies surrounding these two towns. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1363210/-/nmt7aj/-/index.html Legend has it that after a successful hunting season, Karamajong warriors gathered at a remote place in the Kidepo valley to celebrate and feast. This place was called Apoka, meaning “the place of gathering”. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1361126/-/nmrrvs/-/index.html As the colonial government made advances at consolidating its stay in Uganda, the desire to live a comfortable life presented a new challenge to the queen’s emissaries in black Africa. Besides the need to ease their access to mineral resources and cash crop fields through good roads and later railway, there was urgency to find an alternative source of white energy. Coal, which they used was incessantly becoming costly as it had to be imported from Britain. 2012-03-07T12:18:45Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1358302/-/nmb5qp/-/index.html It is Uganda’s first ever gazette game reserve- The Semliki is truly a tropical paradise. It is situated in the western rift valley, in the shadows of the Rwenzori Mountains. It is bordered by the blue mountains of Congo and the shores of Lake Albert. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1358300/-/nmb5qn/-/index.html The earliest time my friends and I could travel to Nairobi was 9pm, but our preferable buses set off for Nairobi not later than 8pm. Left with no choice, we booked with another company – Kampala Coach. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z