A one hour drive from Kampala to the east is the town of Jinja situated on the shores of Lake Victoria (Nalubaale) it is also the home of the source of river Nile. Omuga Kiriya is its original name (locally in Lusoga) before being seen by the British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1862, he had solved a great mystery boggling the minds of Europeans about the origins of this great river which poured its waters in the Mediterranean Sea having journeyed through Uganda, Sudan and finally Egypt. It is only recently that the mighty river Nile was declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO.
