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Arua Tourism.txt

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Arua City Tower is the Tallest Monument in East and Central Africa, but 2nd in S
 
 Three things I admire deeply about Arua are: Ori Yo [No Fear]; Young Mothers and Mputa [Nile Perch (fish)].
 
+One Friday, I travelled from KLA to Arua by private means. Then a friend in KLA called me and I told him that I would be in Najjanankumbi the following Tuesday. I was so tired because of the journey that I briefly forgot that Mt. Wati Road (Anyafio Village in Arua) was hundreds of kilometres away from Entebbe Road. When I looked outside the window, I realised that I was not in Kyebando, but the sitting room I was in felt like KLA City. For a crazy moment, I thought I would just board a taxi for less than an hour and meet him, but had to apologise that I couldn't make it. I even posted that old feeling on Twitter when Arua was declared a city by Parliament and it was shown on Urban TV during Northern Connection (Music show). Words either damage (bring down) or mend (build up): Arua is the Sweetest Place on Earth! Some people look for a lovely place, others make a place lovely. From personal amazement (Found several unseen before developments), Arua changes every two months plus can expand into a metropolis. There is something you can learn from Arua. For me, Arua felt like a city from my first pilgrimage in Y2K until official declaration and after.
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 Since 2020, Arua is the Regional City of West Nile Subregion (which has 8 to 13 districts). Arua Hill Stadium and Business Park is a different, head-turning and multi-purpose venue under construction that will feature a 20,000-seat stadium, shopping mall, Arua Hill Hotel, banks and hospital. 2ambe Health Club has a fenced artificial football turf with floodlights for nighttime activities. Martin Anguandia (Unique Rider) in Ambeko (Between Mvara and Muni) made a small 4-wheel car using a Senke motorcycle engine and has driven it to Koboko. He also assembled a pedal-assist electric bike that he wants to equip with a solar panel. Island Resort Beach (Ogurugu) behind Otokoa Market provides boat rides and fishing in a 100-metre long pond. Meanwhile, Aqualand Farm in Ombaci also has several fish ponds, but no rides. Drone fishing can be another activity introduced. Visit Adriko's Factory near Enyau River or Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) at the Ombaci Earth Satellite Station next to Nile University! Cassava Enyasa [Slap food] is the staple food in Lugbaraland since colonial days. Za [Meat] feasting (Yamari Wedding Banquets) never end. Mangoes ripen mainly in May and December. Seasonal butterfly migration and fireflies at night are superb spectacles during mid-year. There is also weekly birdwatching eg gaagaa (black and white crows), small redbirds, vultures, brown kites, marabou storks, etc. Other animals I've seen near Arua include: cows, goats, sheep, chicken, ducks, rabbits, donkeys, ostriches, camels during festivities like Eid, guineafowls [ope], forest-green moths, grey and white monkeys, purple snakes, river crabs, red monkeys, monitor lizards, etc. Three rain seasons are: Spring (March to May), Summer (June to August) and Autumn (September to November) plus a Dry Winter with little to no rain from December to February.
 
 Why do Lugbara want to study English, Swahili, French, Japanese, Arabic, German, Spanish, Russian plus Chinese, but ignore their own language (Trinity Peace Gorondru of the Sudanic Academy calls it "inferiority complex")? Why can't I master Lugbara like English? Is it because our land or civilisation is not considered more interesting than the others? I want to be delusional and actually think Lugbara is also interesting and Arua is the destination to be. On the 3rd Agofe's 90th birthday, I snapped and created my own encyclopedic digital Lugbara Dictionary (Arguably the first and Biggest of its kind on the Web).
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 While in KLA before Twenty13, I used to review tourism maps of Uganda (eg in Eye Magazine and so on) and find West Nile blank; not even Ajai was mentioned nor Pakwach Bridge, Salia Musala, various rivers besides Enyau, waterfalls, etc. So, I made it my business to do research. I hope Arua is mentioned somewhere annually as a (cultural, church, water or urban) tourism destination in the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo. 
 
-Words either damage (bring down) or mend (build up): Arua is the Sweetest Place on Earth! Some people look for a lovely place, others make a place lovely. From personal amazement, Arua changes every two months (You might find a new building never seen before or new storey and other changes) plus can expand into a metropolis. There is something you can learn from Arua.
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 Architecture (Tallest Buildings in Arua/ Bha Da Sende Tawuni-a Tipasi/ The Stones Will Praise GOD): Desert Breeze Hotel near Osu River (10-storey Extension), Noble Unit Building (9 floors on Adumi Road), Arua Hospital Doctors Quarters (8 house-stomaches or floors), Shopping Centre blocks (7 floors), Aza Plaza (6 storeys), Sinai Plaza, Le Tsuba (Tap of Luxury), Orasea Complex (5 floors), ML Building, John Boboli Koboko Building, Nyadri Block, Star Plaza (4 floors), Tropical Suites Hotel, Concord Business Centre, KKT Plaza on Duka Road (3 floors), RICE West Nile on Awudele Crescent, ASIL Complex, Rippons Motel Building, Rose Villa Hotel, Golf View Inn, Wazalendo Complex, Electoral Commission West Nile Regional Centre, etc...
 Brands: Springs, Omia Agribusiness Group, Terah Fish, Sunshine Mineral Water, Tolo Sweets, WENRECo, Malayika Bread, Barolls, Mungufeni Foundation, etc...
 Cathedrals: Emmanuel (Mvara), Ediofe (Vatican City of Arua)...
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 Koboko: Salia Musala (is where you can be in three republics at the same time about a 2-hour journey by car from Arua City), Awudi Caves, Giriye streetfood, Mt. Liru (Origin of Kakwa), Dabaracha Falls, River Kochi...
 Madi Okollo: Ajai Wildlife (Game) Reserve is the White Rhino cradleland though has other animals like the Ugandan kob, shoebill (whale-headed stork), etc and is an extension of Murchison (Kabalega) Falls National Park, River Ora Bridge, Rhino Camp, Stone music...
 Maracha: Headquarters at Nyadri, Miriadua Falls, Alikua Pyramid, Lake Rokoze (in Nyoro), St. Joseph's Cathedral Ovujo, Tara Hills (eg Kodro, Gala, Kadri, Adrofiya, etc), 1991 Ojapi Air Raid sites including Woodland Peony Bomb-tree, Komendaku, Bango Cultural Centre Oleba, Koyi, Rivers Imve and Ayi...
-Moyo: Predominantly Madi, Mt. Oce (arguably Tallest in West Nile), Nyeri, Ilo, Metu Hills and Caves, Fort Dufile, Laropi Ferry Crossing, Era Forest, Moki Springs, Arapi Limestone Factory, Dolo Island (with black and white collobus monkeys, birds plus reptiles)...
+Moyo: Predominantly Madi, Mt. Oce (arguably Tallest in West Nile), Nyeri, Ilo, Metu Hills and Caves, Fort Dufile, Laropi Ferry Crossing for about 14 minutes, Era Forest, Moki Springs, Arapi Limestone Factory, Dolo Island (with black and white collobus monkeys, birds plus reptiles)...
 Nebbi: Alurland (Emblem is Leopard), Biku Hill near Goli (Smallest Church on Earth), Paidha Hill, Agwara Dance...
 Obongi: Opi Island, Boat cruise (Sailing), Comboni Missionaries Farm (Agrotourism), Sportfishing, Waka Forest, Obongi Ferry...
 Orientale Province (DR Congo): There are about six Lugbara clans in former Zaire; many place names actually have meanings in Ugandan Lugbara...
 Pakwach: Albert Nile Bridge, Wang Lei (Separation point of Alur and Acholi ancestors), Owiny(i) Total Solar Eclipse Monument (Sunday 3rd November 2013), Fort Emin Pasha in Wadelai...
-Republic of South Sudan (ROSS): According to Madi oral tradition, their tribe came from Nigeria and moved eastwards. At Rejaf near present-day Juba, a woman broke away at lunchtime to look for her missing lugba [desert dates] which she had wrapped in leaves. The group that moved southwards with her were called "Lugba ni" by the Madi just like Lugbara call Baganda "A'bua (ni) [Bananas]". Lugbara is spoken in the republic and is related to Madi plus other Central Sudanic languages eg Avukaya...
+Republic of South Sudan (ROSS): According to Madi oral tradition, their tribe came from Nigeria and moved eastwards. At Rejaf near present-day Juba, a woman broke away at lunchtime to look for her missing lugba [desert dates] which she had wrapped in leaves. The group that moved southwards with her were called "Lugba ni" by the Madi just like Lugbara call Baganda "A'bua (ni) [Bananas]". Lugbara is spoken in the republic and is related to Madi plus other Central Sudanic languages eg Avukaya, Keliko, Logo, Moru, etc...
 Terego: Headquarters at Leju, Mt. Wati, Olewa Falls, Onayi, Tooth Can Lost...
 Vurra: Ovisoni, URA Customs, Isara Memorial Cultural and Community Library (IMCCL), Ezuku Forest Reserve (Source of River Enyau), Agoi Falls, Laura Hill, Meridien Tobacco Company, Logiri Forest, Bondo Hills...
 Yumbe: Aringa dialect is considered Low Lugbara (differences are not too many) though the clan broke away as a tribe on its own (as shown by 1995 Uganda Constitution) - Try comparing British, Jamaican, Nigerian, Ugandan and American English (Spellings, pronunciations and slang can separate them, but mutually intelligible), Lodonga Basilica (1st in Sub-Saharan Africa though 4th Oldest on the continent with annual pilgrimage every 8th December), Yumbe Hospital, Agbinika Falls, Dubu Falls...