Jinja a Top Tourism Destination - Prime Uganda Safaris & Tours Safari updates

ZJHVBJHADJinja is one of the great tourism destinations in Uganda and it has attracted many safaris which have helped in improving the tourism sector. As early as the pre-independence era, Jinja town located 80 kilometres east of the capital Kampala was a favourite destination for both local and foreign investors. They established industries that consequently attracted multitudes of job seekers from all over the region in search of employment opportunities.
The increase in Uganda safaris to Jinja has been attributed to its strategic location along the Trans-African highway from the port coast of Mombasa, on the northern shores of Lake Victoria and eastern bank of the world's longest river Nile as well as the presence of European and Asian settlers, Jinja made great economic strides in the 1950s and 1960s.
The tourist destination was hit by a depression during Idi mans’ regime were by most tourist attractions were destroyed and many industries were washed away. This affected the tourism industry since the numbers of safaris to Uganda reduced. For decades, Jinja lost its glory as an industrial centre earning itself the unenviable name of a ghost town; it became a shadow of what it used to be.
The rotting infrastructure aside, many of the industries remained underutilized with overgrown grass and shrubs as a common feature. Some turned into hideouts for criminals. The tarmac roads that led to the industrial areas became synonymous with potholes. These problems greatly reduced Uganda safaris to Jinja.
 Safaris to Uganda can greatly expose you to the newly developed tourist destination since the trend has changed, several new industries have been established with many more are in the offing. A couple of those that had gone dormant have been revived for production. From steel plants to timber processing factories, oil refinery to beer brewing, paper packaging manufacture to corporate branding, tea processing to world class liquor distilling, plastics manufacturing to electricity poles treatment plants. The town is once again bustling with industrial activity.
Uganda Safaris/ Uganda Safari News
Prime Uganda Safaris & Tours updates 2013

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