Mukono, slowly
Forty minutes from Kampala, the road turns to red earth, the noise falls away, and the garden takes over. This is what a weekend at Jinna looks like.
The courtyard at first light.
01 — Letter from the desk
A quieter kind of welcome
We built Jinna Suites for people who would rather hear birds than traffic.
When we opened on Bukerere Road, the idea was simple: a house that behaves like a home, with the standards of a hotel. No lobby music. No queue at check-in. Just a gate, a garden and someone who remembers how you take your tea.
This season we have spent the quiet months on the details guests told us about — firmer pillows, a proper desk lamp in every room, and a breakfast that starts early enough for the Entebbe run. The kitchen now bakes its own chapati and sources egg and fruit from Mukono market each morning.
If you have stayed with us before, thank you. If you have not, this issue is an invitation: come for two nights, leave slower than you arrived.
The desk at Jinna Suites
02 — Room spotlight
The Garden Suite
A separate sitting room, a balcony over the lawn, and the only bathtub in the house.
The suite sits at the quiet end of the property, behind the frangipani. Wake early and the balcony is in shade until nine; by evening it catches the last of the light and you can hear the kitchen closing down.
It sleeps three, with a king bed and a daybed that converts. Blackout curtains, a desk that is actually long enough to work at, and a kettle you can reach without getting out of bed.
The published rate is what you pay. Uganda's 18% VAT and 2% city tax are already inside the number — no surprise line at checkout.
03 — The house, in pictures
Six frames from last month
Photographed by the desk, on ordinary mornings.
Breakfast on the terrace, coffee from the Rwenzori foothills.
04 — What is on
Worth the drive
Four things within an hour of the gate, and when to go.
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Mukono market
any Saturday morning
Walk in with no plan. The produce side is best before nine, the fabric stalls open later. Twenty minutes by boda from the gate; the desk will arrange a driver.
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Sezibwa Falls
mornings, after rain
Forty minutes east. The falls run hardest in April and November. Take the lower path and proper shoes.
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Mabira Forest
a slow afternoon
An hour east on the Jinja road. Birders should ask for Musa, who has been guiding there for eleven years.
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Kampala by boat
a full day
Down to Nakiwogo and across to Entebbe, then the city by road. We will pack breakfast if you leave before seven.
05 — For readers of the Journal
Three nights, the third breakfast is ours
Book direct, mention the Journal, and we will add a late checkout and breakfast on the house for the third morning.
Valid for stays of three nights or more, booked directly with the desk or through this site. The offer is applied to the room rate at confirmation — the published price already includes 18% VAT and 2% city tax, so there is nothing extra to add.
Two phone lines, answered by a person: +256 705 732 344 and +256 779 485 974. Or reply to this email; reservations@jinnasuites.com reaches the desk directly.
Until next month,
The Jinna Journal arrives once a month with one room, one stretch of life outside Kampala, and one offer only for its readers.
Bukerere Road, Misindye, Mukono Set on the terrace