Kabaka's Trail

The Kabaka's Trail is a community tourism project to introduce visitors to the secret history of the Buganda people.

Six sites around Kampala make up the trail, including several tombs, a prison and a waterfall.

The Naggalabi Buddo Coronation Site, a short distance off the road to Masaka, is where the Buganda kings are crowned, including the current kabaka Ronald Mutebi II. There are several huts similar to those at Kasubi Tombs, as well as a natural throne from a tree root. This is the most accessible of all the sites, as minibuses run here from the new taxi park in Kampala - ask for Naggalabi Buddo stage.

Ssezibwa Falls is a popular beauty spot with locals, just off the road to Jinja. Take a Lugazibound minibus from either taxi park in Kampala as far as Kayanja and then negotiate for a boda-boda to the falls.

Other sites on the trail include Katereke Prison, a prison ditch where royal prisoners were starved during the upheavals of 1888-89; the Wamala Tombs, which are the resting place of early Bugandan kings and predate the more famous Kasubi Tombs; the nearby Tomb of Nnamasole Kanyange; and the Tomb of Nnamasole Baagalayaze, where there is a local cultural centre with traditional performances.