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EXPLORE UGANDA EQUATOR
WATER SLIDE WHERE HEMISPHERES MEET!
WHERE HEMISPHERES MEET!
NILE RIVER EXPLORERS
NILE RIVER EXPLORERS There are only 13 countries in the world
Bujagali, Jinja +256 772 422373 where you can take a photo of yourself in
rafting@raftafrica.com www.raftafrica.com the southern hemisphere AND in the northern
@nileriverexplorers (f i) @NRERafting (t) hemisphere at the same time. One of these
great photo ops is right here in Uganda--just 70
WHITEWATER RAFTING kilometers (43 miles) from the edge of
Kampala--on your way to Lake Mburo and
ADRIFT O VERLAND CAMP & RIVER CLUB Queen Elizabeth national parks, and on your
ADRIFT OVERLAND CAMP & RIVER CLUB
River Nile, Kangulumira, Kayunga way to visit our beloved gorillas, Rwanda,
+256 755 225587 / +256 752 225587 Congo, and all-things west.
At the roadside line-marker, you can position
info@adrift.ug www.adrift.ug @adrift.u (i) one foot in the south, and the other foot next
@Adriftug to it in the north--and suddenly you’re the
NALUB ALE RAFTING center of the world (or at least you’re standing
NALUBALE RAFTING
38 Kiira Road, Jinja +256 782 638938 on it).
bookings@nalubalerafting.com In 2002, AidChild (aidchild.org) received a
www.nalubalerafting.com @nalubalerafting (i) grant from USAID, and brought water and
@Nalubale Rafting Uganda (f) electricity to the equator-village while creating
NILE RIVER EXPLORERS the first coffee shop and art gallery at the
NILE RIVER EXPLORERS
Bujagali, Jinja +256 772 422373 equator-crossing, spawning an arts and crafts
rafting@raftafrica.com www.raftafrica.com destination. More than twenty years later,
AidChild still has a shop here (including one of
@nileriverexplorers (f i) @NRERafting (t) Uganda’s few galleries of original art, a garden
RAFT UGAND A AD VENTURES cafe’, and a plastics-recycling-collection
RAFT UGANDA ADVENTURES
Bookings: Acacia Mall, John Babiha (Acacia) point), just a few steps north of the line, do-
Avenue, Kololo, Kampala +256 393 217951 nating all its profits to scholarships for students
+256 750 237438 info@raftuganda.com living with HIV. Try a FREE Equator Chocolate
www.raftuganda.com @raftthenile (f) when you buy a cup of coffee or tea at
AidChild, too. There is also a unique demon-
@raftugandaltd (i) stration point where you can see how water
WHITE NILE RAFTING
WHITE NILE RAFTING swirls and drains differently in each hemisphere
1902 Jinja-Budondo Road, Buwenda (some claim it’s a trick, you decide), making
+256 787 508236 / +256 702 468286 this a quick-pic-stop, or a fun and educational,
info@whitenilerafting.com @whitenilerafting (f) shopping day-trip from the city.
www.whitenilerafting.com @whitenilerafting2 (i) Where else can you have one foot in winter,
@WhiteNileraftUG (t) and another foot in summer? Here in Uganda,
several roads cross the equator. Currently,
ZIP LINING markers are on the Kampala-Masaka Road,
the Ibanda-Kamwenge Road, and one soon
GRIFFIN F ALLS CAMP to be reinstalled on the Mbarara-Kasese
GRIFFIN FALLS CAMP
Mabira Forest, Kampala-Jinja Highway Road near the main gate of Queen Elizabeth
+256 751 949368 / +256 752 920515 National Park. And there’s one more on a tiny
info@mabiraforestcamp.com uninhabited island in Lake Victoria—just south
www.mabiraforestcamp.com of Entebbe.
@Mabira Forest Camp (f) The 12 other equatorial countries are:
SAMBIY A RIVER LODGE Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Sao Tome and
SAMBIYA RIVER LODGE
Murchison Falls National Park Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo,
+256 465 423174 / +256 776 778908 Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,
reservations@sambiyariverlodge.com Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, and Kiribati.
www.sambiyariverlodge.com To plan your own equator visit on Masaka
@SambiyaRiverLodge (f) Road, check out aidchild.org/equator, or the
@sambiyariverlodge (i) hashtags: #UgandaEquator #EquatorLine.
ARK BUNY
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SUPREME ADVENTURE PARK BUNYONYI
VENTURE P
UPREME AD
AIDCHILD EQUATOR SHOP
Lake Bunyonyi +256 772 423215 AIDCHILD EQU A TOR SHOP
A few steps north of the equator line on
+256 753 333012 Masaka Road +256 780 282697
info@supremeadventurepark.com info@aidchild.org
www.supremeadventurepark.com www.aidchild.org/equator
@Supreme Adventure Park Bunyonyi (f) @AidChildEquator (f i)
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