Culture

Home Stays in Uganda

Do you want to experience something more authentic in Uganda than a hotel or lodge? Introducing holiday home stays in Uganda. Opting for a village stay even for a short time of your visit to Uganda will give you a chance to learn about the foundation of life and traditional culture of Uganda.  One of the visitors on a safari to Uganda has discovered the ancient Batwa forest inhabitants and their heritage legacy of rock paintings, ancient caves older than the Egyptian pyramids.

Why go for a home stay in Uganda

Home stays not only interaction with local people, but also has put tourism business in the hands of the local people along with earning the local Uganda shillings and US dollars if organized.

A home stay may range from one day to three days and also longer visitor stays can be arranged. Not all home stays have experienced visitors but we carefully select, along with a guide the most sufficient to carter for basic tourist needs.

Best Places for Homestay in Uganda

Here are some of the best places where you can experience a homestay and experience the Ugandan culture during your holiday in Uganda

Entanda Cultural Centre

The community based tourism initiative since 1998 has helped set up numerous home stay projects around Uganda, offering home stays on one of the seven hills of Kampala city Buganda kingdom in the central to the ancient BaTwa people and school children in southwest.

Home stays in Uganda’s National Parks

Staying in a Uganda’s national park for a wildlife experience is fantastic, but choosing to stay in village homes is more of authentic cultural experiences. It’s also very educative to lighten your mind with various traditions of cooking, millet grinding, cow milking, and traditional churning of fermented milk for ghee, folk lore, African poetry, weaving and craft making.

Nshenyi Cultural Village

Nshenyi cultural village near Mbarara town offers a typical Ankole culture and traditions of farming and cattle keeping. In the west near Fort Portal town is the Mpora Rural family home. Near Bwindi impenetrable forest national park in kisoro and kabale, are Tom’s home stay, BaTwa homestead. All these can be accessed on a safari to Uganda.