Jinja
Population 279,184 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Uganda
Getting there
Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Gandhi Memorial · 260 m
- Nile view - outside the park Viewpoint · 760 m
- Gandhi Memorial · 870 m
- Cruise to the Source of Nile Attraction · 910 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Getting around
- Boda Boda 320 m
- Mortorcycle taxi 460 m
- Buses to Kampala 1.2 km
- Jinja Port 1.3 km
- taxi station to Mbale 1.4 km
- Jinja Taxi Park 1.4 km
Train stations: Jinja 2.8 km
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