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Monument to children abducted by the LRA
muguruki Says: Not far from the District HQ is a monument erected to remember those children who have been abducted in the war in the north by The Lords Resistance Army.
muguruki Says: Worth having a look at while you are in Gulu town is the district head quarters. The District HQ is a rather elaborately decorated building just to the north of the town centre.
muguruki Says: As the sun was setting one evening in Gulu town I took a photo of a monument that marked the sunsetting on the British empire in Uganda. A rather strange looking monument it is too. The plaque on the front reads "This is the exact point where the British flag was lowwered...
muguruki Says: This hotel must have once been a really nice gaff but now is looking slightly faded.It costs 7,000 UGX for a swim but they don’t provide a towel “The manager stopped it when people were cleaning their shoes with the towels” I was told by the young girl who worked...
Jazira guest house: Better bread than bed
muguruki Says: The bathroom I had was bigger than my bedroom! Rather a poor guest house but a half decent café out front. While I was there the café closed at 11pm but one of the waitresses said they were preparing to open 24 hours a day in the near future. This will probably be really...
Lacan Pe Nino: The poor cannot sleep
muguruki Says: Lacan Pe Nino in tghe local Acholi language means the poor cannot sleep.A room here costs 16,000 for a self contained single with a tiled floor that helped to keep the place cool, a big bed, net and a fan. I like this place, bar out front that can get quite busy and everyone...
Golden Peace Hotel, Gulu: A New Era for Gulu
ayote Says: Located in a private environment yet close to the city center Golden Peace Hotel in Gulu is a new chapter in the troubled past of Gulu. Although i have visited on occasion my one week stay with my fiancee who was visiting the country, at the hotel was simply stunning. A...
muguruki Says: If my favourite place for dek ngor is shut as it tends to be come evening time. The obvious place to eat would be Binnen. For 2,500 I had a really nice meal here of Malakwang with a side order of dek ngor or even a dirty graet bowl full of Lapena.It is also possible to stay...
Marzook: We all hope its beans its beans!
muguruki Says: No-nonsense Muslim owned hoteli that serves up big trays of pilau, black tea or coffee for 300 and possibly the best beans and chapatti in town. All this served up while the two TVs in the café playing two different channels. One of which seems permanently tuned to an...
muguruki Says: Not sure this place has got a name. It is also not the easiest place to find as it it is situated in the alleyway between two parallel streets Labwor and Awich roads in Gulu. The girl at the hotel I was staying told me to eat here and right she was to do so. I loved the Dek...
The Coffee Hut: Expensive yet busy coffeehouse
muguruki Says: I can't beleive how busy this place got at around 5 in the evening. Wazungu from the whole district appeared out of the bush on boda- bodas and on foot.I can't even tell you how good the coffee is as 3 cups of coffee here would have cost more than I was paying for my bed for...
Hotel California: Welcome to the
muguruki Says: Sadly Hotel California run by the lovely Mama Jane is not the one that the country rock band The Eagles sang about. If they had visited Gulu and had a slap up meal here then they may have written a half decent song instead of the wishy washy drivel that haunted me in the mid...
Can't remember the name of this place: Dek ngor madam!
muguruki Says: Can't remember the name of this place but it is on the right of Kampala road as you walk north.Traditional northern Ugandan Food. Best going at lunchtime, if you go in the evening the choice of food is not as extensive as the menu might suggest. I was disappointed a couple...
Helpfulness
I was happy to pose for a photo with the runner up and the person who came in last place after I had won the Acama Guest House smiling competition.
Only happened to enter this place cause it was the nearest boozer when I was desperate for a beer, subsequently after that I spent most of the rest of my stay in Gulu sipping Nile and playing pool on the pool table that resembled Hoylwell golf course in the Acama Guest house bar.
This place had the uncanny knack of playing all my favourite Congolese tunes while I was in there having a few scoops.
Like many places in Uganda, Gulu has an iffy electricity supply so its wise to move around at night with a torch, and the Acama doesn't seem to have a generator for when the power fails in fact you would be lucky to share a candle with those who are playing pool.
Samson Guest House
Formerly known as Acama Guest House but I was told the establishment is still owned by the same person. Still a decent bar and the rooms have improved a lot. This is also the best pace to go in town if you fancy your chances at a game of Mweso.
Updated Jan 7, 2011
Address: Labwor Rd
muguruki Says: Not quite clear bur I hope you can make it out. This is a map I knocked while I was in Gulu hope it makes sense to you.Here is a key to the map1. Handicraft shop2. Cosmo guesthouse3. Kakanyero Guesthouse4. Jojo's Palace5. Republic restaurant6. Rainbow7. Acama Guesthouse and...
muguruki Says: Getting to Gulu was easy enough by bus; just get to the bus station and wait an hour for it to fill up travelling up to Gulu took 4 hours exactly. For some reason a lot of the passengers are compelled to buy loaves of bread from the hawkers while we are waiting in the bus...
muguruki Says: I was in Gulu in January 2013 and the market had been replaced by a building site. If the proposed artists’ impression of what the market in the future looks like is accurate then Gulu will have a mall like all singing all dancing multi storey market. In the meantime the...
muguruki Says: Before I headed up north to Gulu I changed a lot of my money in Kampala thinking there would be little chance to change my £s at a decent rate. Wrong! Jetset Forex in Gulu town was open untill 8 in the evening and had as good rates as a lot of places in the capital.
Handicraft shop: Handicraft shop
muguruki Says: This really helpful young lady will serve you in the Handicraft shop for handicrafts and really nice yoghurt as well as all the house hold items on the shelf behind her.Whist I was in the shop drinking my bongo a bloke walked in and wanted to buy a bow and arrow. I asked...
Definately not a tourist trap. Northern Uganda has been destroyed by 18 years of civil war. I just visited Gulu, on a humanitarian mission. Every night 1000's of children walk to local hospitals and school to sleep, in safety. If they stay in there homes, the threat of abduction by the rebel army, is very real. Although it is not a safe place to be, I would go back in a heart beat.
Written May 14, 2004
Gulu, by ek it's grim up north.
These poor buggers have had it hard up here in Gulu. The war in the north of Uganda is officially on going, Joseph Kony (formerly of this parish) has yet to sign a peace deal with the Museveni...
You definately don't go to Gulu, Northern Uganda for vacation. The hunger and despare of 18 years of civil war has really taken a tole on this part of the country. When you stand in front of a local...
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