Routing between host cities depends on a fixture list CAF has not published. This guide covers how the movement works, not which journeys you will need to make.
Three countries, not one country
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are neighbours, and that proximity is misleading. Each has its own immigration process, its own currency and its own domestic transport network, and crossing between them under time pressure is a different proposition from moving within one of them.
The practical rule we work to: move within a country by road where it makes sense, and move between countries by air.
What moves easily
Regional flights between Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Entebbe are short and frequent, and they are how we route multi-country journeys. Within a country, road transport works well over the distances people actually travel — a city to its nearest park or coast.
- Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Entebbe are connected by short regional flights
- Zanzibar is a brief hop or a ferry from Dar es Salaam
- Mombasa is reachable from Nairobi by rail as well as by air
- Jinja and the source of the Nile are an easy day out from Kampala
Leave more slack than feels necessary
We do not publish journey times anywhere on this site, and multi-city planning is where that restraint matters most. Traffic in all five cities we service varies enormously through the day, and a connection that works on paper can fail on a Friday afternoon.
The buffer that matters is not between the flight and the match; it is between the arrival and everything that has to happen afterwards — immigration, bags, transfer, check-in.
What we coordinate
Multi-city journeys are where a travel company earns its place: one itinerary, one set of transfers that actually meet the flights, and one person to call when something moves.
