On this 10 Days Best Uganda Cultural Safari, be prepared to be part of the Uganda’s culture. Uganda is a beautiful country with different cultural setting.
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On this 10 Days Best Uganda Cultural Safari, be prepared to be part of the Uganda’s culture. Uganda is a beautiful country with different cultural setting.
When you visit Uganda, you will learn more about these cultural beliefs and traditions. Uganda has more than 50 different tribes that are worth exploring as for each is unique on its own with rich cultural beliefs.
Don’t miss on the Karamojongs and the Batwa forest people. All this small groups and communities have unique behaviors and beliefs
On arrival at Entebbe airport, you will meet up with our guide driver who will brief you on the safari before the transfer to your hotel.
You’re 10 Days Best Uganda Cultural Safari will begin later that evening by a pickup. Later have dinner and overnight
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After breakfast, at around 8 am, you will go visit the national museum before going to the Buganda palace to learn more about the history of Buganda Kingdom.
After the palace you will go to the burial site for the kings, the Kibuli tombs. You will later go visit the coronation sites of Buganda Kings.
If time allows you can check the independence monument, Kibuli mosque. Later you will return to your hotel for dinner and overnight
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Cassia lodge
At an early hour of the morning after breakfast, the distance might take you around 2-3 hours. On your way to Jinja you can visit Ssezibwa falls and then proceed to the source of the Nile.
On arrival in Jinja, you will go visit the Busoga king’s palace and then later relax at your hotel. Later you will have dinner and rest
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Leaving waters resort
Nile front cottages
Brisk recreation hotel triangle
Jinja base camp
Meal plan: full board
After an early breakfast, at around 8 am, you will depart from Jinja and transfer to Mbale. This drive takes 3 hours to arrive.
Check into your hotel and then go Visit the Mutoto Cultural site which hosts the circumcision ceremony/ imbalu for the Bagisu Males every even year.
Circumcision of male teenagers is seen as a process through which these men are initiated into adulthood. Later you will go visit Kakungulu hill, where Kakungulu was buried.
Its todays where Jewish center sits. You will return to your hotel. Later have dinner and overnight
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After an early morning breakfast, transfer to Sipi falls for nature walks to the falls. Later in the afternoon you will go visit the Sebei people and then return to your hotel. Later dinner and overnight
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After breakfast, you will check out of your hotel and transfer to Moroto. Arrive in Moroto to have lunch and go visit the Karamoja museum. You may opt for a community walk or relaxing in your hotel. Later have dinner and overnight
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After an early morning breakfast, you will go to Ateker cultural center and then Mt Moroto where you will meet the people of Tepeth tribe after hiking.
Spend some time with them learning more about there culture. Return to your hotel. Later have dinner and overnight
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After an early breakfast, your guide will be there to transfer you to Gulu. Arrive in time for lunch, and later go visit the Fort Patiko.
This is also referred to us as Bakers Fort and was established in 1872 by Sir, Samuel Baker. Later it was commissioned by the Queen as a military base during the colonial days. Later you will break for dinner and overnight
Wake up early and have breakfast. You will later visit the local community in Gulu and also a museum town.
You will also visit the crafts center to buy some crafts and be treated to cultural dances of the Acholi people. If you are interested you can visit the Guruguru caves.
These caves, are said to have been used during the Lamogi rebellion and also during the historical inter- clan wars and much more. Later you will head to your hotel for dinner and overnight
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Transfer back to Kampala from Gulu. If your flight is the same day you will head straight to the airport in Entebbe
It’s the capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 meters) and is situated in the southern part of the country, just north of Lake Victoria.
Kampala lies just north of mengo, the capital of the Kingdom of Buganda in the 19th century. It was selected in 1890 by Capt. Fredrick (later lord) Lugard as the headquarters of the imperial British East Africa Company.
Lugard’s fort on old Kampala hill remained the Ugandan colonial administrative headquarters until 1905, when it was moved to Entebbe.
In 1949 became the capital of independent Uganda. Parliamentary and commercial buildings, industry, and residential areas are separated into sectors
Situated in the country’s’ most prosperous agricultural section, Kampala exports coffee, cotton, tea, tobacco and sugar
Jinja
Jinja is a town in southern Uganda, on the shore of Lake Victoria. The source of the Nile, at Coronation Park, is marked by a garden and a monument honoring British explorer john Hanning Speke.
Owen falls dam and bujagali dam both span the Nile. Farther north on the river, itanda falls is known for its white-water rapids. East of Jinja, on Lake Victoria. Samuka Island is home to birdlife, including the little egrets
In 1954, the construction of the Owen falls dam submerged the ripon falls. Most of the flat rocks that gave the area its name disappeared under as well.
The local Buganda called the area “the stones” which is “mayinja” in Luganda. The name “jinja” is derived from this description of what the area looked like and can be found in the notes of John Hanning Speke the first European to lay his eyes on the source of the Nile
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