Travel To Sipi Falls Via Jinja City on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On Day of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari you will travel to Sipi falls Via Jinja for a quick visit to source of River Nile, have a landscape photography session at the source of the River Nile and thereafter we proceeded to Sipi falls through Jinja city, Reaching Sipi falls in the late afternoon, and check-in at Sipi Safari Lodge probably Rafiki Lodge and overnight stay.

Sipi water Falls Hike And Sipi Falls Coffee Photo Tour on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Today marks your day three of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, and your photo tour starts with a delicious breakfast from booked Lodge and then set off to Winding trails that will lead to hike through local communities to roaring waterfalls, lush farms and forests, and the magnificent views of the Karamoja plains.

Sip waterfalls is a hiker's paradise just waiting to be explored. From the waterfalls, you will then continue with the trace story of coffee from seed to cup.

Sip waterfalls Arabica Coffee is some of the finest in the world.

Meeting the local farmers to photo tour their plantation and learn about the coffee and even have a cup of coffee with them, “the local farmer will explain to you the origin of this coffee, and it is believed that this coffee is from Ethiopia when a goat ate the coffee and then started jumping up and down for several days, and forced the owner to transport it to Saudi Arabic for a checkup, where they realized that the problem was coffee, and from there they nicknamed the coffee as “Arabic Coffee “ From here you will travel Sipi falls coffee shop to have a pack of coffee for your loved ones back home, there after travel to your Sipi safari lodge for another overnight stay.

Travel To Moroto Town from Sipi Falls Via Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On day four of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, have breakfast at Sipi safari lodge and thereafter travel to Moroto town from Sipi falls via the beautiful landscapes of Pian Upe wildlife reserve and it will be inevitable pass through without a photo shoot to either the beautiful landscapes of pian Upe or the Pian Tribal People’s Portrait, and architecture designs, thereafter we proceed to Moroto Town for an overnight stay at Moroto hotel of your choice !!

Tepeth Cattle Camp and tribal People Photo Tour on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On this day five of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, You will have breakfast at your lodge in Moroto, and there travel to Tempth Tribal People villages in Mount Moroto.

Mount Moroto is where you can find the Tepeth tribe and is the highest mountain in the Karamoja region of northeast Uganda and located against the border of Kenya’s Turkana region.

Mount Moroto is an extinct volcano and home to one of Uganda’s smallest tribes, the Tepeth people.

The Tepeth people are thought to be the original inhabitants of the Karamoja planes. They were hunters and gatherers by tradition but were forced to abound this way of life in exchange for agro-pastoralism due to the declining wildlife population in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mount Moroto is well known for its wide variety of minerals but most famous for many Limestone and Marble that are shipped to countries as Italy.

Travel to Kotido Town from Moroto Town on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On this day six of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, Travel from Moroto Town to Kotido Town via Matheniko Wildlife Reserve and Bokora Wildlife Reserve, have stopovers for Bokora tribal people photo tour and Matheniko tribal People photo tour and the proceed to Kotido Town for lunch and overnight stay.

Full Day Nakapelimoru Village Photo-shoot in Kotido on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Today on day seven of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, you will have a full day photo shooting the villages of Nakapelimoru, focusing on their portrait, arctecture and landscapes.

The Nakapelimoru community seats on the Nakipel, which is the largest group of rural housing in East Africa, It will give you an insight into the Jie tribal people under the Karamojong umbrella, and it will be a great opportunity to know the backward culture and their way of life and it’s a mountain hike with an astonishing view of the Karamoja savannah.

Travel To Kaabongo from Kotido Town on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Today on day eight of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari you will to Kaabongo town from Kotido town for Dodoth tribal people photo tour late in the afternoon to their cattle camps, landscapes, and portraits.

Thereafter drive back to Kaabongo Resort hotel for an overnight stay as you warm up for the following day mountain murungole hike to the Ik tribal People photo-shoot.

Hiking Mountain Murungole for Ik Tribal people Villages Photo tour on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On this day nine of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, have breakfast at your Kaabongo Resort hotel and then travel for 3 to 4 hours to Hike mountain murungole for the Ik tribal people photo tour, crossing via usake river for landscape, portrait, and architecture photography,

The Ik are also under the Karamojong umbrella and sometimes called Teuso are ethnos numbering about 10,000 people living high within the mountains of Morungole northeastern of Uganda near the border with Kenya, next to the Turkana peoples and within the Kidepo Valley Park Region of Northeastern Uganda.

The Ik Tribal People are believed to have migrated from Ethiopia and first settled in Kenya and migrated to what’s now Kidepo Valley National Park.

“Ik” means “head of migration” or the primary ones to migrate here. Thanks to government interference beginning within the 1960s, the Ik’s traditional hunting, and gathering area were made into a Wildlife Reserve, the Ik were displaced from their land to make the Kidepo Valley Park and consequently suffered extreme famine.

They were regularly raided due to their relative weakness to other tribes neighboring them. They, therefore, began to migrate up to the Morungole Mountains where they will be found and visited today and sleep in relative peace.

The Ik people were hunters and gatherers however thanks to cattle raids from other tribes like the Turkana and Pokot of Kenya, Karamojong umbrella tribes of Uganda, and therefore the Toposa of South Sudan they gave up cattle herding for farming, goat/sheep keeping, and honey production.

Their language may be a member of the highly divergent Kuliak sub-group of the Nilo- Saharan languages.

The Ik and the Ik people sleep in several small villages arranged in clusters, which comprise the entire “community”. The tiny villages are surrounded by an outer wall then sectioned off into friend-based “neighborhoods” called Odoks. Each Odok has sectioned into walled-off households called asks, with front yards and in some cases, granaries. There’s no mattress or mat, but a trough scooped out of the world floor to mark the bounds of a bed.

The Ik people are polygamous and men can marry as many wives as they need to depend upon the number of beehives one has. A good man owns as many as 50 beehives and may give about five to 10 hives as a gift. The primary wife features a ‘husband’ status over other wives and wife inheritance after divorce or widowhood is practiced. Virginity isn’t a problem before marriage, adolescents do engage in premarital sex far away from the community eye.

The proximity of boys and girls within the community affords many opportunities. However, sex and marriage within an equivalent clan are taboo and adultery (of the woman) is punished by death. Every woman features a hut and therefore the men make rounds among their wives within the neighborhood.

Children move out after five years of age, to remain with a grandmother until they’re about 11 to 13. The women marry and therefore the boys’ team in groups of 5 or six, and build one hut to remain in till they get a wife and leave.

The age band groups consist of; The ‘Junior Group’ that is formed from children from the ages of three to eight and therefore the ‘Senior Group’ consists of these between eight and thirteen. No adults take care of the youngsters, who teach one another the fundamentals of survival.

However, it’s not certain whether this practice is typical Ik tradition or merely triggered by unusual famine conditions. The raising of youngsters is sort of different here, polygamy is a component of family life and there’s not much of a proper education besides learning to defend them.

A day with the Ik People high on Morungole Mountain which has a number of the foremost stunning scenery altogether of Uganda is just a tremendous adventure it thus gives you a rare insight into an endangered tribe of Africa with but 10.000 members which renders it as endangered for its future existence as they plan to eke out a living high within the mountains with a number of the foremost fantastic scenery altogether of Uganda.

The experience with this very special Ik tribe in Uganda helps you to find out more about their cultural habits like paying gifts with 5 to 10 beehives, chicken, goats, and money rather than cattle, childbirth. Learn more about what percentage of children at a young age accept each other or their grandmother. How polygamy is practiced here and about lifestyle in an Ik community.

The Ik people are warm-hearted, once you reach their villages you’ll be greeted warmly with traditional dancing often in Ik finery, they need therefore welcome tourism since it’s adding a touch of income to their community and more so tourism has helped to make awareness within the Ik tribe.

Getting to the Ik people is such a tremendous experience since it involves an all-day venture up and down the steep mountains with a guide who speaks the Ik Language. You’ve got to be physically fit to climb the mountains – the height of Mount Morungole is 2,749 meters above water level and a hike over here is torture for those that aren’t fit.

You’ll find simply stunning, breathtaking scenery the upper your climb takes you, into the valleys below you and the valley of Kenya. Your hike up the mountains visiting the Ik tribe is going to be one of the highlights of sometime in Uganda, a memorable experience! Enjoy the various cultural ways of the Ik people, learn from them and luxuriate in a number of their local beers with them, it’ll be quite different from what you’re wont to. Clients on the road to the Ik community are welcome to offer donations in any form.

Kidepo Valley National Park is one of Uganda’s most spectacular parks and it is located in Uganda’s remote northeastern corner.

It is 1,442 square kilometers and harbors scenery unsurpassed in any other park in East Africa. Kidepo Valley National Park consists of a semi-arid climate with one rainy season per year that’s April- September. It receives 890mm of rainfall in the southern part while 635 is received in the north. Tucked into the corner of Uganda’s border with Sudan and Kenya, the park offers breathtaking Savannah landscapes, which end on rugged horizons. A huge latitudinal range and correspondingly wide climatic conditions have evolved into an extremely diverse flora. The park has got a variety of animal species which equally abundant including many, which are found nowhere else in Uganda.

PLEASE NOTE:

Today after spending a good time with Ik People you will be transferred to Kidepo Valley National Park where you will spend an overnight night,

The park’s vegetation is described as an open tree Savannah that varies in structure and composition. Mountain forest dominates some of the high places, while areas along the Lorupei River support dense Acacia geradi forest. The flora and fauna of the park are more typical of Kenya than the rest of Uganda. The landscape of the park is studded with small hills, rocky outcrops, and inselbergs from which one can obtain stunning views in all directions.

Game drive and wildlife Photo tour in Kidepo valley national park on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On this day ten morning of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, after breakfast you will go for a game drive in Kidepo Valley National Park.

You will most likely be able to view the Kidepo valley National park animals that are unique in their African Savannah like giraffe, antelope, lion, elephant, hyena, buffalo, and the Uganda Kob.

The splendid Kidepo river valley is dominated by Borassus palm forest, startling savannah landscape, and the stunning view of the Narus valley situated in the southwest of the park.

To the north of Sudan at the Lotukei Mountains and the Morongole range which marks the southern boundary of the park and ending the trail at the Kanangorok hot spring with a view of several faunas that can be seen wandering around like the tall Ostrich.

After lunch will take on another game drive in the evening exploring different wildlife in the area. Seeing heard of buffaloes, elephants, and a variety of birds like ostrich herons, OR visits the Kanangorok Hot Springs. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at your facility.

Travel To Murchison falls National Park on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Day 11 of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari marks your last morning for game drive in Kidepo valley national park, there after comeback for breakfast at your Kidepo valley national park lodge, and then embark travel to Murchison falls national park, Check in at Murchison falls national park safari Lodge, and then go for late afternoon Murchison falls national park game drive.

Murchison fall nation park is the largest and oldest national park and it id followed by Queen Elizabeth national park. The Murchison fall nation park is one of the top tourism destinations in Uganda beside Bwindi impenetrable forest that is famous for the grill trekking adventure activity in Africa.

Murchison fall national park is covered by the savannah and tropical forest vegetation that is a home to a wide range of wildlife animals that live together in harmony in the natural environment of the park.

The Murchison fall nation park is one of the best destinations to spot the big five wildlife animals, which were named by the African game hunters.

Such as the lions, the beautiful and gentle elephants, the African cape buffaloes, the canning leopard as well as the rhino that will be seen in the Ziwa rhino sanctuary on your ways from or to Murchison fall Nation Park.

The Murchison fall nation park is uniquely blessed with a wide range of extremely interesting features that contribute greatly to the scenic beauty of the pearl of Africa wonders.

Murchison fall national park has been divided into two sections by the might Albertine Nile. Such as the northern section as well as the southern sections, which can be explored on Murchison fall nation park game, drive safari or on Murchison fall nation park hot air balloon safaris enjoying its great beauty and wonderful features of the Murchison fall nation park.

The northern section of Murchison fall Nation Park is highly blessed with a lot of exciting activities and attractions since it has a high concentration of wildlife animals and it offers the best experience and memories about the Murchison fall nation park.

The section has got a lot of nature walk trails and game trails that are taken to enhance the traveler’s exploration of the park and the trails lead to mostly exiting attractions in the Murchison fall nation park.

Full Day Murchison falls National Park Photo tour on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Day 12 of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari, offers you opportunity to explore flora and fauna of Murchison falls national park.

Murchison falls national park has different tracks where you are able to drive and enjoy both the vegetation and the variety of animals.

The highlight of this Murchison falls national park trip is Murchison falls national park game viewing in our custom made vehicles where you are able to capture your favorite moments in pictures of Giraffes as they move through the grasslands, buffaloes, Jacksons Hartebeest, Uganda Kobs, Lions, herds of Buffaloes, fishermen on Lake Albert, Waterbucks, etc.

You will be looking for the big4 as you warm up to see the remaining member of Big4 the Rhinos at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary on your drive back to Kampala the following day.

Thereafter your Murchison falls National Park driver guide will transfer you to Hike to the top of Murchison Falls, Hiking top of the falls is one of the exciting and extremely interesting activities in Murchison fall national park.

Murchison fall national park is as also known as Kabalega national park. The Murchison fall national park is so famous due to fact that it is a home to the great might beautiful Murchison fall.

This Murchison falls is one of the key attractions in the Murchison fall national park that bring a lot of travelers all over the world.

What is expected during the top of the falls hike? When you take a Nile boat cruise ride at the Victoria Nile, based on the water level the boat ride will drop you at the starting point off the hike which is known as the bakers’ point / trail.

It is historically believed that this is the point where Sir Samuel baker a European explorer stood and declared Uganda as ‘The Pearl of Africa’ and it is this spot that he named ‘Murchison fall’.

Although the story will not give you clear imagination about of how these explores managed to go through the virgin environment of the place will not give you a clear picture of how they did it as you experience the hike by yourself, it is really fascinating.

Hiking at top of the falls is escorted and accompanied by a profession Murchison fall nation park ranger guide who will dig into the historical stories of the sir Samuel baker’s discoveries and achievements during his exploration of the Murchison fall nation park.

The guides will as well as tell you about the wildlife animals expected to be seen while hiking the top of the falls, the bird species and trees that you will encounter on your way to the top of the fall, during the hiking experience travelers have a lot of question wondering the natural beauty they are seeing and how the people of Uganda have managed to keep it green, natural and a virgin area which really gives authentic experience of the jungle on safari.

The great might Murchison falls are one of the key attraction that will give travelers first sight as they start hiking the top of the falls. The great massive and pressure of waters from the Victoria Nile forces its ways through the narrow gorge that has got beautiful rocks that formed rippling around to form the white foam as the water goes through. Due to the high forces of the water from the Victoria Nile, travelers on a hike will hear a great sound of the waterfall squeezing itself through the narrow gorge as well as the trembling grounds as continue with the hiking.

The hiking experience takes about 45 minutes from the point where the Nile boat drops you and you start the guided walk at the top of the falls, going through the early explorers footmarks where the route is full of water logged areas, you will be imposition to spot a lot of flying bird species, butterflies among other wildlife offering you great imagination of the pearl of Africa.

As you reach the top of the falls you will have an insight to a lot of pictures of the waterfall, videos as you also enjoy viewing the sister falls to Murchison falls, which is known as Murchison fall nation park Uhuru falls. The Murchison fall nation park Uhuru falls can only be viewed when travelers hike at the top of the falls.

Please Note: If the water level is low you can do the hike to top of Murchison falls if its high your Murchison fall nation park driver guide will have to drive you to the top of the Murchison falls and then late in the afternoon have a boat Safari on River Nile from where you shall watch different animals along the shore and continue to about ten meters from the bottom of Murchison falls – also known as ‘Devils cauldron”. This 2-hour boat journey is a great way to spend the afternoon enjoying the Victoria Nile and the several.

Please Note: You can as well Visit Budongo Forest Uganda while here.

Budongo Forest is situated approximately 3 hours drive northwest of the capital city Kampala on the way to the prominent Murchison Falls National Park.

This is the biggest Mahogany forest found in the whole of East Africa as well as habitat to the largest number of chimpanzees throughout Uganda.

The major tourist sites within this forest are: the Kaniyo Pabidi Ecotourism site, Busingiro Ecotourism site and Kaniyo Pabidi Ecotourism site which are located at boundaries to Murchison Falls National Park and dominated by Mahogany and Iron-wood trees.

The 115-kilometer expanse is a remote chunck of the Budongo forest. Its isolation once in a while offers a safe haven for the Lions, Leopards as well as Buffaloes. Early in the morning is the ideal time to set out touring because then you will have an opportunity to find a number of the forest inhabitants licking salt by the forest glades. River Waiga offers refreshment to the various Uganda safaris wildlife species within this forest.

Some of the Activities to Enjoy within this forest include:

1). Birding: The forest is among the most ideal places in Uganda to have a guided bird watching tour by the Royal Mile that extends from Nyabyeya Forestry College to the research station.

2). The Chimpanzee Tracking experience: Is the number one priority here. Starting in October up to January, the time when the fruits are shorter in supply, the chimps move a lot covering a wider area so the success of seeing them drops to about 50% rate.

Fortunately there is a diversity of Accommodation facilities available from where you can base to enjoy Uganda tours; Chimpanzee trekking as well as the exciting forest walks.

3). Birding in Budongo Forest Among the various bird species that have been recorded in this forest are more than 360 species that will certainly reward you with a very amazing Budongo Forest birding safari experience in this great forest in Uganda.

In addition there are 290 butterflies species, 130 Moths species, 465 tree species, as well as 24 mammals nine of which are actually primates.

The Budongo Forest reserve is among the most significant birding destinations in Uganda, and is located on the escarpment northeast of the stunning Lake Albert.

The forest is characterized by a medium altitude damp semi-deciduous verdant forest that covers 42 800 hectares, with patches of Savanna as well as woodland. This Budongo Forest sits on a gently rolling landscape, with a wide-ranging slope north-northwest towards the Great Rift Valley.

This Budongo Forest is drained by 4 tinny rivers, which are Waisoke, Sonso, Bubwa, plus Wake that empty into the Lake Albert.

The Budongo has 5 major forest types that include: swamp-forest, mixed, Cynometra-mixed, colonizing plus the Cynometra. The greater part of this forest reserve is sheltered by tropical high-forest communities.

The Mid altitude semi-deciduous Cynometra-celtis forest occupies close to half of the total site whereas the Combretum savanna is extensive within the drier regions.

There are a number of Eco-tourism sites found at Kaniyo Pabidi plus Busingiro. Because of Murchison falls national park’s biodiversity, the park stands out as the best place for Uganda safaris and short weekend breaks for wildlife and nature lovers.

There are 2 endemic bird species within the Budongo forest, which cannot be seen in other parts of East Africa. This forest comes second after the Semuliki National Park as the most important forest in Uganda with species of the Guinea Congo forest-Biome.

The Yellow-footed Flycatcher, simply known in Budongo within Uganda, was common within mature forest, however today it is extremely rare to see.

Illadopsis puveli, a new addition, isn’t seen in another place in East Africa. Additional species that rank Budongo one of the finest bird watching destinations in East Africa include the Zoothers camaronensis, Ceratogymna fistulator, Neafrapus Cassini, Batis ituriensis, Smithornis rufolateralis, Sylvietta denti as well as Ixonotus guttatus.

These different species are as well seen in just a few additional forests within Uganda. Rare forest birds have recently several times been recorded within the forest and among these are the Pitta reichenowi as well as Parmoptila woodhouse. Within this forest, Bird watching is properly facilitated with a widespread properly maintained 115-kilometer truck system.

Travel To Kampala City Via Zia Rhino Sanctuary on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On day 13 of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari travel to Kampala Capital city Via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to make a stamp Uganda Big5 photo safari tour, there after proceed to your Kampala hotel.

Kampala Capital city Tour on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

On this day 14 of 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari our Kampala tour guide will take you for Kampala city tour, visiting top Kampala Capital city tourist attractions in the city center, and there after be transferred to your hotel in Entebbe City for evening relaxation at Lake Victoria.

Reserved For Departure on 15 Days 14 Nights Karamoja Region tribes’ Cultural tour and Uganda Wildlife Safari

Based on your travel plans you will be transferred to Entebbe International airport for your international flight back home and hence calling it end of Uganda photo safari tour.