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4-Days Homestay Experience In An Ugandan Village

  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Rural Experience, Culture, Homestay

  • Duration

    4 Days

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Visit a typical home in a small village Kishonga, tucked between valleys and overlooking Nyakishenyi hills, to learn the local people's culture and lifestyle. Enjoy a unique experience of milking cows and witness local music performances while enjoying a campfire & barbecue. Take a walk in a local school, plant a tree in your name there and take a hike to nearby hot water springs.

Highlights
  • Stay in a beautiful, green village and indulge in the local lifestyle
  • Milk a cow with your hands
  • Enjoy folk songs and treat yourself to a campfire & barbecue
  • Arrive at a school, plant a tree there
  • Relish the nearby hot springs
  • Day 1: Entebbe - Rukungiri expand_more

    • Arrive at lunchtime and have a typical Ugandan meal. 

    • In the afternoon, you can join your Ugandan tour guide in milking cows. This is an activity you don't want to miss. Pressing and pulling the cow's udders to get milk out sounds easy but needs patience and a lot of skill. 

    • Enjoy some free time in the evening.

  • Day 2: Rukungiri expand_more

    • After breakfast, learn how to prepare Peanut sauce and Matoke, which highlights a typical meal here. Cooking is done by using firewood. 

    • Learn more about Uganda’s coffee and how it’s produced. 

    • Join the local women in basketry, weaving mats, table cloths and various crafts. Listen to the local folk songs and stories as you work with the women. 

    • Witness local cultural entertainment in the evening to relax your mind after a long day’s work.

  • Day 3: Rukungiri expand_more

    • Participate in making the traditional banana juice in the morning. 

    • Return for breakfast and later visit a nearby primary school where you interact with the pupils—optional—planting a fruit tree in your memory in the school compound. Alternatively, take a walk to Mineera hot springs. 

    • Enjoy a campfire and barbecue in the evening.

  • Day 4: Entebbe expand_more

    • After breakfast, you will depart to your next destination.

What's Included

  • Park fees (for non-residents)

  • All activities mentioned (unless clearly labelled as optional)

  • Meals (as specified in the day-by-day description)

  • All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labelled as an optional upgrade)

  • A professional Ugandan driver/guide

  • All transportation mentioned (unless clearly labelled as optional)

What's Excluded

  • All Taxes/VAT

  • Round trip airport transfer

  • International flights (from/to the client's home country)

  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour

  • Tips: tipping guideline of USD 10.00 per person per day for the guide and crew

  • Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees and other personal items)

  • If government imposed an increase in taxes and/or park fees

Know before you go

  • Day Home Stay Experience in a Ugandan Village.

  • The village is near the Rukungiri town council, 2-hour drive from Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi or Lake Bunyonyi.

  • They have clean outside flush toilets.

  • Each house has got its own shower with warm water. 

Meeting Point

Rukungiri, Uganda

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
1 To 4 USD 189 Per Person

This is a group tour

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USD 189 / person