Transitions and Migration

The most common method for arriving in Kampala is via Kampala’s Entebbe airport.

Situated approximately 38 minutes and 39 kilometers south of Kampala’s city center, Entebbe has been the primary entryway to the city of Kampala for quite some time. Built in 1928, the first aircraft landed on the airport grounds in 1929. It was not until 1951 that the airport was officially re-opened, with a new runway.

The passenger terminal building that exists today was built in the mid to late 1970s. Interestingly enough. The older Entebbe airport is currently used by the military forces of Uganda, and the domestic terminal, which is apart of the new airport is the terminal responsible for the international flights into Uganda. It is reported that in 2011, International traffic reached 1.5 million passengers. The geographic coordinates of the

airport are: E 032° 26' 36.61"/N 00° 02' 32.59" 32.443503/0.042386.

Once a visitor arrives into Entebbe, one can take a taxi or minibus into the city. Within the city, there are three primary means of public transportation: boda bodas, minibuses (also known as matatus), and special hires. Boda bodas are motorcycle – like taxis of sorts. Minibuses/matatus are quite similar to what they sound like – they are small buses that are built to take as many as 14 people around town. Many of the transportation hubs are depicted in this Google Street View image below - the different bus stops and the Taxi Park are shown.

I find it fascinating at the number of taxis parked in the taxi park; it is easy to see the large number of taxis parked through this Google Earth image. Apparently, there are over 4,000 minibuses transitioning in and out of the park on any given day.

It seems as though the railway is not commonly used. The Uganda Railways Corporation operates two different routes. The first distance totals approximately 5 miles between Kampala and Port Bell and the second route extends about 120 miles between Kampala and the Kenyan border at Tororo.

Below are rectified images of my cities: [still having problems linking my work in Map Warper with WorldMap]