Olowo Moses has been on the Nile his whole life — as a kid on banana-tree rafts at Bujagali, as a professional guide, and now as the founder of Float the Nile. This is why he came home.
Moses had spent years guiding for other operators — Kampala-based outfitters who ran good marketing and mediocre experiences. Every season he watched tourists get shortchanged on the very river he'd grown up swimming. Briefings nobody translated. Guides who'd never once swum the section they were running. A river being sold by people who didn't know it.
After seasons guiding internationally — India, Kenya, summers on the Kicking Horse in Canada — Moses came back to Jinja and saw clearly what the river deserved: someone who'd actually grown up in it. In 2020 he founded Float the Nile himself, built from his own savings and years of professional guiding experience.
He started with what he had and has improved every season since — new tubes, better safety equipment, upgraded gear. The operation has grown by word of mouth alone. He hasn't needed a marketing budget yet.
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Born and raised in Jinja. Grew up swimming Bujagali Falls on banana-tree rafts. Rose from safety kayaker to senior guide at Adrift Rafting, then took his skills to India, Kenya, and Canada's Kicking Horse River before coming home to build something of his own.
Moses founded Float the Nile on a simple conviction: the people who know this river best should be the ones on the water with you.
Read his full storyEvery guide, every staff member, every person who handles your booking or hands you a snack at the end — Jinja born and raised. We don't hire from outside the district. The money stays in the community it came from.
The Nile is not a rubbish bin. We use reusable water bottles on every trip, biodegradable packaging for food, and we run a voluntary cleanup float twice a year. Three years running, zero single-use plastics in our operation.
Moses runs a free kayaking programme for children in Jinja town. A portion of every booking goes toward it. He has already put hundreds of local kids on the water.
We're at the put-in every morning from 7am. Walk up, say hello. Or message us first — we usually respond within the hour.