Kingfisher Safari Resort Hotel surprises with price friendly comfy accommodation near Source of the Nile

If I had an opportunity to elope with someone’s wife, then most likely I would end up in Kingfisher Safari resort to hide there for sometime until the dust following our elopement settled or until I got a clear plan of where to take my “stolen treasure”.

Members of Christian Legal Education And Research (CLEAR) International

Kingfisher resort hotel is such an isolated place that even an angel will find it hard to argue that it is not a good destination for committing such abominable but secretive sins. However I doubt whether the proprietors of this hotel quite intended it for such hideous activities and that is why I would prefer that we talk about something else altogether and that is to talk about how well suited Kingfisher is for the various social activities like picnics, conferences, retreats and the like that you can have in this enjoyable place.

Kingfisher is found about four kilometers from Njeru town, the town in Mukono that borders the Nile and the last town in Mukono before crossing to Jinja from the west. Be that as it may. Kingfisher Safari Resort hotel is a little distance away from that town that also boasts of industries like the Nile Breweries.

Just when you are meter or two into the compound of the hotel, and if your eyes keep roaming all over the place, most likely they will land on a few notices hang on trees around the place with one notice commanding you to “relax”. And just when you finally relax and get further into the premises of this resort, you will find a relatively moderate swimming pool but so naturally built that if you have ever enjoyed the
natural experience of swimming like yours truly, you may be tempted to get into the water the next minute.

The pool has swimming sections for adults and children. The two are separated by a wooden bridge under which a short “river” connecting the two pools. The pool for the adults is two meters deep on the deep end while it is 1 meter on the shallow end. The swimming pool for the children is less than 0.5 meters deep. This I can tell with my not so mathematically perfect eyes.

Nothing will mesmerize your soul more at Kingfisher than the Bed- rooms. Honestly, given that I am a bachelor, the first thought that came to my mind when I entered those rooms was how much those rooms were suited for honeymoon lovemaking (that is just a joke anyway). They are just small rooms but more self contained than one would expect of such small rooms with a bathroom and a toilet in there. Simple and largely ordinary but with a touch of class and enough interior space.

The rooms are in huge huts which are divided into four rooms. The four rooms are practically on the four sides of the big huts. The huts are roofed by papyrus reeds. It is such a hospitable place that you will feel at home even when away from home more so if you grew up in the countryside because Kingfisher has that countryside appeal around it.

All that may be amazing about Kingfisher but the most exciting bit of it all is that Kingfisher is a relatively cheap hang-out destination. The rooms go for as cheap as 15,000 shillings for every night. The food; a buffet also go for 15,000 shillings and the food which is African most of the time is simple but quite expertly prepared.

Then just in the background of Kingfisher are the waters of the Lake Victoria. I can see many people having fun by near the lake side. Their face cannot clearly be seen simply because of the obstruction of the many trees that are all over the place. Besides just two or so kilometers away from Kingfisher is the source of the Nile. You just need to part with 3,500 shillings to be taken for a boat ride to the exact place that John Speke over 100 years ago “discovered” to be the source of the Nile.

I couldn’t miss the boat rides and I found them to be such a fun experience that you too will enjoy for between half an hour to an hour depending on what you pay the boat riders for the ride and their time.

The author infront of the pool

I sure enjoyed my time at Kingfisher. Nonetheless, for conference purposes, which are the reason I was here in the first place, there is need for improvement of the conference facilities of Kingfisher. I came to Kingfisher with m embers of Christian Legal Education And Research (CLEAR), an International, an organisation that brings together Christian Lawyers and wasn’t very impressed with the conference facilities. At least such a place should have a projector and the conference hall ought to be more striking and appealing than the one that is in place but we always know that there is room for improvement.

I can say that Kingfisher Safari resort is that it is a place where you will take a daughter of a peasant and she will not be overwhelmed or feel out of place and a equally a place where you will take a daughter of a tycoon she too will not feel embarrassed or blame you for going far below the standard of her class. It is place that oozes with classy simplicity. Impressed I was indeed, but imagine what I would have written if Kingfisher Safari resort had hired or paid me!

By Zakaria Tiberindwa

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