22 Days Uganda Cultural Safari.
This 22 days (21nights) Uganda Cultural Tour will begin and end in Kampala. This Tour takes you through the notable cultural and heritage sites in Uganda. These sites belong to the different ancient kingdoms of Uganda: Buganda Kingdom, Toro Kingdom, Bunyoro Kingdom and Ankole Kingdom. It also includes a tour to Eastern Uganda.
You will have 5nights at Hotel Africana (F.B), 2 nights at Paara safari Lodge (F/B), 1 night at Mountains of the Moon Hotel (F/B), 1 night at camp located at the mouth of Kibale National Park, 5 nights at Mwea- Safari Lodge, 2 nights at African Pearl Home Stead and 2 nights at Lake View Regency Hotel, 2 nights at Tororo Rock Hotel (F/B) and 1 night at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel.
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22 days tour itinerary.
Day1: Ndere Music Festival
When you arrive at Entebbe Airport, you will be picked by our safari guide/ driver. He will highly welcome you and then drive you to Ndere music festivals for an exciting entertainment in Kampala. You will see how wonderfully the dancers shake their bodies to the beautiful beats of the traditional instruments. After that kind of entertainment, you will transfer to Hotel Africana for your dinner and over night. 

Day 2: Kasubi Tombs & Buganda Cultural Sites Tour
After your morning breakfast, you will visit the cultural sites around Kampala. Some of the sites you will visit include; Kasubi tombs where Buganda kings and royals are buried, Kabaka’s Palace, Kabaka’s lake, Nagalabi coronation site, Nakasero Green Market, Mulago Hospital, Uganda Museum, Cultural Market, Bahai temple, Namugongo shrines and many others. On each site you visit, you will be told interesting stories and infact you will have a lot of learning. Tired as you will be, you will be transferred back for dinner and over night at  Hotel Africana (F/B)

Day 3: Cultural training at Ndere troupe
Have your breakfast and then go to Ndere centre for a one day workshop. According to your cultural interest, you will be trained and among the activities, you will learn cooking traditional foods, traditional dancing, dressing in traditional attire and courtship the Ugandan style. Dinner and overnight will be at Hotel Africana (F/B)

Day 4: Ndere Cultural Centre Visit
After your morning breakfast, you will drive back to the Ndere Cultural center and be part of various competitions. Because you trained the previous day, you will now be able to compete and of course the winner will be awarded with a certificate and other prizes. You will have an evening entertainment by the Ndere troupe and later transfer back to Hotel Africana for your dinner and over night.

Day 5: Jinja & the Bujagali Falls Tour
You are expected to wake up early, have breakfast and then drive to the East and visit the White Nile that is the longest river in Africa. You will visit the mighty Bujagali falls and get a chance to see the real sparkling white water of the Nile as it paves its way through the stones and also listen to the mysteries that surround the Bujagali falls. Have lunch at Sunset Hotel then drive to Tororo in the afternoon
Dinner and overnight at Tororo Rock Hotel (F/B)

Day 6: Tororo Hill, Ancestral Caves & Rock Paintings
You will wake up in the morning and then climb the Tororo Rock hill. You will visit the ancestral cave and the various Rock paintings. After that interesting activity, you will have lunch at the Hotel then have an afternoon entertainment by the local community group. In the evening, you will have dinner and overnight at Tororo Rock Hotel (F/B)

Day 7: Transfer to Kampala
You are expected to wake up early in the morning for your breakfast, and then transfer back to Kampala. You will reach in the evening; you will have dinner and overnight at Hotel Africana (F/B). Those who want to sleep will go for that and those who are fascinated with night clubs will be driven to those respective places until they are tired.

Day 8: Travel to Murchison Falls National Park.
You will have your breakfast in the morning and then drive to Murchison Falls National Park;  you will have a stop over in Masindi Town for lunch then after  proceed to the Park. When you reach, you will be tired so you will have dinner and overnight at Paara safari Lodge (F/B)

Day 9: Murchison Falls Tour
Early in the morning, you will have breakfast then visit Murchison falls. These are the most exciting falls in East and Central Africa that’s why the park was named after these falls. You will be able to see how and where the world's longest river explodes violently through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment to plunge into a frothing pool 43m below. Wildlife populations have greatly recovered; in the borassus grassland to the north of the Nile, elephant, buffalo, giraffe and a variety of antelope are regularly encountered on game drives, while the lions are seen with increasing frequency. After lunch, you will take a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls. This is an exciting cruise with lots of game to see such as hippos, the most feared Nile crocodiles, elephants and the lovely bird species along. You will have an evening relax and listen to the African evening stories told by the local guides.
Dinner and overnight at Paara safari Lodge (F/B)

Day 10: Bunyoro Kings Palace
You will wake up and have your breakfast such that you proceed to Hoima and visit the Kings Palace. You will reach a place called Kolping Hotel for your lunch. As you have your lunch, you will be entertained by the Entogoro cultural dancers then later head to Fort Portal. Dinner and overnight will be at Mountains of the Moon Hotel (F/B)

Day 11: Toro Palace & Karambi Tombs
Activities include visiting the Toro Kings Palace, a palace to the youngest king ever. Visit Karambi Kings burial grounds. Lunch at the Hotel and enjoy the entertainment by the Batoro Cultural dancers. Later proceed to Crater Valley Kibale (CVK) Dinner and overnight at the camp located at the mouth of Kibale National Park.

Day 12: Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale
Start early for chimp tracking. Chimp tracking is done in the groups of 6. Kibale forest is the most accessible of Uganda's major rainforests. Kibale is home to a remarkable 13 primate species, including the very localized red colobus and L'Hoest's monkey. Kibale's major attraction, however, is the opportunity to track habituated chimps - these delightful apes, more closely related to humans than to any other living creature, are tremendous fun to watch as they squabble and play in fruiting trees. After Lunch at Mantana Luxury tented camp, we transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will have dinner and over night at Mwea safari Lodge.

Day 13: Queen Elizabeth National Park Tour
Start at 6:00 am for a game drive in the park. Do not worry about break fast because you will find it. These early game drives are known to produce good sights of the members of the cat family. This park is known for its open savannah, rainforest, from dense papyrus swamps and brooding crater lakes to the vastness of Lake Edward, it is little wonder that QENP boasts one of the highest biodiversity ratings of any game reserve in the world. Almost 100 mammal species and a remarkable 606 bird species makes this superb safari territory, with elephant, a profusion of hippos, the elusive giant forest hog and handsome Uganda Kob all regularly sighted around the tourist village on the Mweya Peninsula - which also boasts a marvelous waterfront setting in the shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains. In the afternoon you will take a launch cruise on Kazinga channel. Dinner and overnight at Mweya safari lodge

Day 14: Katwe Salt Works
You will have another morning game drive and in the afternoon you will visit the Katwe salt works. See the indigenous technological way of extracting salt and experience how men and women extract the salt locally.
Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari lodge.

Day 15: Local Community activities
After breakfast, you will travel to Bunyaruguru and join the local women and men in the preparation of a rural wedding ceremony. You will all be required to get involved in these activities which include peeling bananas, fetching fire wood, constructing sheds, fetching water from the streams, and any other activities that will be identified. Your group will be divided into smaller groups and each undertaking different activities. The activities will be told to you and you will be free to choose where interest lies. You will go back to the Hotel in the evening. Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari lodge.

Day 16: Cultural Wedding ceremony preparations
You will wake up and have breakfast at Mweya Safari lodge, then drive to the wedding site. You will again join the local people in the activities of the day which include cooking, Preparing the reception, Decorating, preparing the cake, welcoming guests, serving and being served. Go back to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari lodge.

Day 17: Rutoto School Tour
This will be a day of knowing who people are. You will have your morning breakfast then transfer to Rutoto Primary School. You will have to interact with the students and teachers at the school. This school was built as the result of the proceedings from Queen Elizabeth N.P. You will be able to interact with the school children, the youth, women and men. This day is for sharing experiences and visiting some homes and gardens. You will then proceed to Mbarara town. Overnight and dinner at Lake View Regency Hotel.

Day 18: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
On this day, you will wake up in the morning, have breakfast and then transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable forest, the home of gorillas. When you look deep into brown eyes of these gentle apes. The park has 90 mammal species, including 11 primates, of which the black-and-white colobus, with its lovely flowing white tail is prominent. The forest birding ranks with the best in Uganda, with 23 highly localized Albertine Rift endemics present. This will be one of the most exciting activities you will experience. In the evening, you will have dinner and overnight at African Pearl Homestead.

Day 19: Mountain Gorilla Tracking
You will have a whole day gorilla trekking which is a very captivating activity though challenging activity therefore ensures physical fitness. It involves walking in the wilderness in search of these great apes. There are three groups found in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Mubare, Habinyanja, and Rushegura). You will have an evening entertainment by the Batwa people. These people were once recognized as the owners of the high montane forest. Evening entertainment by the Pygmies (Batwa). The Batwa were once recognized as the owners of the high montane forest. The men used to hunt, and collect honey and other forest products, which were exchanged for village goods, while the women gathered vegetables, mushrooms and fruits as well as working for local farming people. At the end of the 19th century, when what is now southwest Uganda was part of the Kingdom of Rwanda, the Batwa, like their counterparts in Rwanda, Kivu and Burundi, were valued as court entertainers and soldiers. At the beginning of the 20th century some Batwa leaders became powerful enough to claim tribute from their neighbors. Since then however, as the forest has been cut down by local farmers, the Batwa have become destitute and despised. Most are entirely landless; they live as tenants or squatters on other peoples land', church or state land, and pay the landlord with their labour in exchange for food: collecting firewood and water and doing farm work. Those who do manage to get a little land are liable to be evicted by more powerful neighbors, and find it almost impossible to get redress.   Dinner and overnight at African Pearl Homestead

Day 20: Mbarara Cultural Dances
You are entitled to wake up in the morning, have your breakfast and then travel back to Mbarara. You will get there in the evening and transfer to the area where Banyankole cultural dancers are. They will entertain you with their kitaguriro. This is also another fun, when you get done with that, you will transfer to Lake View Regency Hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 21: Lake Mburo National Park Tour.
You will drive to Lake Mburo National Park for a game drive after your breakfast and then proceed to Kampala. You will have a lunch stop at Hotel Brovad Masaka and also do some shopping at the Cultural Center handcrafts. In the evening, you will have dinner and overnight stay at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel.

Day 22: Airport Transfer for your flight.
You will wake up in the morning and be transferred  to Entebbe international airport in order to catch your departure flight back home.

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