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ADVENTURE OUTDOORS

NILE RIVER EXPLORERS ZIP LINING
30 Wilson Road, Jinja. +256 772 422373 GRIFFIN FALLS CAMP
rafting@raftafrica.com www.raftafrica.com Mabira Forest, Kampala-Jinja Highway.
@nileriverexplorers (f i) @NRERafting (t) +256 751 949368 / +256 752 920515.
RAFT UGANDA ADVENTURES info@mabiraforestcamp.com
Bookings: Acacia Mall, John Babiha (Acacia) www.mabiraforestcamp.com
Avenue, Kololo, Kampala, +256 393 217951. @Mabira Forest Camp (f)
+256 750 237438 info@raftuganda.com SAMBIYA RIVER LODGE
www.raftuganda.com @ raftthenile (f) MFNP +256 465 423174 / +256 774 509811.
@raftugandaltd (i) SUPREME ADVENTURE PARK
WHITE NILE RAFTING BUNYONYI
1902 Jinja-Budondo Road, Buwenda. Lake Bunyonyi +256 772 423215.
+256 787 508236 +256 702 468286 +256 753 333012
info@whitenilerafting.com info@supremeadventurepark.com
www.whitenilerafting.com @whitenilerafting (f) www.supremeadventurepark.com
@whitenilerafting2 (i) @WhiteNileraftUG (t) @Supreme Adventure Park Bunyonyi (f)
THE EQUATOR

FREE Equator Chocolate
with every purchase of a coffee
or a tea at the Equator
Shop on Masaka Road

www.aidchild.org/menu • www.chocolate.ug
AidChild: 0780-282697 • Equator Chocolate: 0783-104217

Where hemispheres meet! to scholarships for students living with HIV. There
is also a unique demonstration point where you
There are only 13 countries in the world where can see how water swirls anddrains differently in
you can take a photo of yourself in the southern each hemisphere, making it a quick-pic-stop,
hemisphere AND in the northern hemisphere at or a fun and educational, shopping day-trip
the same time. One of these great photo ops from the city.
is right here in Uganda--just 70 kilometers (43
miles) from the edge of Kampala--on your way Where else can you have one foot in winter,
to Lake Mburo and Queen Elizabeth national and another foot in summer? The 12 other
parks, and on your way to visit our beloved equatorial countries are: Colombia, Ecuador,
gorillas, Rwanda, Congo, and all-things west. Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Republic
At the roadside line-marker, you can position of the Congo, Democratic Republic
one foot in the south, and the other foot next to of the Congo, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives,
it--in the north--and suddenly you're the center Indonesia, and Kiribati. Here in Uganda, the
of the world (or at least you're standing on it). equator alsocrosses the Mbarara-Kasese Road,
and a tiny, uninhabited island in Lake Victoria.
In 2002, AidChild (an NGO) received a To plan your own equator visit on Masaka
grant from USAID, and brought water and Road, check out aidchild.org/equator, or the
electricity to the equator-village while creating hashtags: #UgandaEquator #EquatorLine.
the first coffee shop and art gallery at the
equator-crossing, spawning an arts and crafts AIDCHILD EQUATOR SHOP
destination. Twenty years later, AidChild still has A few steps north of the equator line on
a shop here (including a garden cafe', and a Masaka Road. +256 780 282697.
plastics-recycling-collection point), just a few info@aidchild.org www.aidchild.org/equator
steps north of the line, donating all its proceeds @AidChildEquator (f) @AidChild (t)
@ali.uganda (i)

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