Getting there, Getting to Flamingoz Joint
Flamingos joint is about one and a half hour drive from Kampala on the Kampala-Masaka highway. The Kampala – Masaka Road is a road in the Central Region of Uganda, connecting the capital city of Kampala to the southwestern town of Masaka in Masaka District, the Kampala – Masaka road is indeed one of the busiest roads in the country in the country.
The Kampala – Masaka High way Road.
The road begins in the Kibuye neighborhood, in Makindye Division, southwestern Kampala. It then points to Busega, then through Kyengera, Nsangi, Mpigi and Lukaya, to end at Masaka, a distance of approximately 127 kilometres on normal days. This is not just a road ride but rather a road trip because of the diverse beautifully scenic places you parade through on your road trip.
With your best Uganda Safari tour agency, you will see the serrated mountains looming in the distance, before you have a stop by at the Flamingoz joint to enjoy spicy sauces in the burger burning to our tongues.
From Kampala, you enjoy a series of different landscape and as you leave the city you notice the different architecture from the tall glamorous buildings to shorter and very busy malls, then to brick houses and a few mad houses. There are various trading centres in the small towns along the highway, markets with delicious vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, honey milk and a lot more. You will also be amazed by the hills and a few flat lands that make an interesting landscape. The hills are mostly covered by the rich green vegetation and unique rocks, herds of cattle, sheep and goats are usually seen grazing.
Bi pass the Mpambire Village, a best tourist hub for locals making drums, it can be described as an epicentre for African drumming activities, the fact that this was an imperial centre, traditional and authentic to the Buganda Culture, it was the main heart for the drums made for the Kings palace – Buganda Kingdom. The expanse of Kampala city and a diversified kingdom in the Capital city of Uganda shielded off the local means and rendered to modern ways of living, Drums can now be accessed or bought in most of the art craft shop.
After Mpambire Village, the welcoming societies living in the western saddles of the pointing rocky hills, leaves your mouth open at you feed your heart with the Equator breeze, this is the home of Flamingoz Joint, this is where the imaginary line on its surface, equidistant from its poles, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres.