East African Community sets passport, tourist visa targets

The good news to the Uganda safaris/Uganda safari sector is that the East African Community (EAC) secretariat has singled out the roll out of a single tourist visa and common passport as the top priority projects this year, as the bloc battles to reverse a credibility crisis over failed targets.

The EAC Secretary General Richard Sezibera said the EAC passport, the single tourist visa and liberalisation of the airspace will boost free movement of people across the region, a feat that the bloc has fallen behind in achieving to boost the Uganda safari business as well as the general east African tourism sector, three years after signing the Common Market Protocol.

READ: Traveling in the EAC? Just grab your passport, pass or ID

Frustration is growing among business executives from member countries over delays in pushing through key projects like opening up the region’s airspace, rolling out a single passport and visa and elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs), saying this was slowing trade and business envisaged by the protocol with tourism/Uganda safaris business one of the most affected.

The EAC, which is facing pressure over the full implementation of the protocol, last month for example postponed a number of key issues including the implementation of a monetary union and the admission of South Sudan and Somalia into the bloc.

The implementation of the monetary union was pushed back by another year to November 2013 after members failed to agree on 14 of the 77 articles needed for its creation.This obviously delays quick growth of the Uganda safari/Uganda tourism sector.

Observers said the EAC technocrats will be judged by how they handle the integration process in 2013 after the delays experienced last year.

While the five EAC partner states had in principle agreed to remove NTBs by December 2012, in the absence of a legally binding framework, little action was taken.

The latest report from the EAC Secretariat shows while 35 NTBs were reported as unresolved, 10 new NTBs emerged in 2012 alone.

Only 36 NTBs were reported as resolved. It is understood the EAC Secretariat is keen on pushing immigration officials in the five countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) to fast-track the review of the new design of the passport and if done great benefits will go to Uganda safari/Uganda safari sector. A source at the Secretariat said the bloc has set a deadline of between March and June 2013 for the commencement of printing the new passport.

On the single tourist visa, the EAC principal tourism officer, Shedrack Mashauri said delays were being caused by a lack of consensus over visa fee collection and sharing model among the EAC partner states.

This is because, according to the plan, a tourist on a Uganda safari for example would apply and pay for a visa in any of the five states and this visa would be applicable for travel to all the countries in the region, thus necessitating the need for a proper revenue-sharing formula.

“We are also ought to accomplish harmonisation of immigration management systems and put some sophisticated ICT equipment that connects the relevant authorities in the five countries mainly for security reasons” Mr Mashauri said.

It is anticipated that issuance of a single EAC visa and passport would not only ease movement across the region, but significantly boost regional drive to promote the bloc as a single tourism destination a great boost to the Uganda safari business section .

“Tourists are constrained by time so the EAC to increase its global tourism market share must trim down the paperwork to the minimum possible and here comes the importance of a single visa” said Sirili Akko, Tanzania Association of Tour Operators executive officer.

The EAC is also planning to streamline the civil aviation authorities’ operations in the region as a way of liberalising the airspace a move warmly welcome by all Uganda safaris dealers as well as those in the general east African safari.

The EAC partner states would adopt common policies to harmonise civil aviation rules and regulations.

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East African Community sets passport, tourist visa targets

The good news to the Uganda safaris/Uganda safari sector is that the East African Community (EAC) secretariat has singled out the roll out of a single tourist visa and common passport as the top priority projects this year, as the bloc battles to reverse a credibility crisis over failed targets.

The EAC Secretary General Richard Sezibera said the EAC passport, the single tourist visa and liberalisation of the airspace will boost free movement of people across the region, a feat that the bloc has fallen behind in achieving to boost the Uganda safari business as well as the general east African tourism sector, three years after signing the Common Market Protocol.

READ: Traveling in the EAC? Just grab your passport, pass or ID

Frustration is growing among business executives from member countries over delays in pushing through key projects like opening up the region’s airspace, rolling out a single passport and visa and elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs), saying this was slowing trade and business envisaged by the protocol with tourism/Uganda safaris business one of the most affected.

The EAC, which is facing pressure over the full implementation of the protocol, last month for example postponed a number of key issues including the implementation of a monetary union and the admission of South Sudan and Somalia into the bloc.

The implementation of the monetary union was pushed back by another year to November 2013 after members failed to agree on 14 of the 77 articles needed for its creation.This obviously delays quick growth of the Uganda safari/Uganda tourism sector.

Observers said the EAC technocrats will be judged by how they handle the integration process in 2013 after the delays experienced last year.

While the five EAC partner states had in principle agreed to remove NTBs by December 2012, in the absence of a legally binding framework, little action was taken.

The latest report from the EAC Secretariat shows while 35 NTBs were reported as unresolved, 10 new NTBs emerged in 2012 alone.

Only 36 NTBs were reported as resolved. It is understood the EAC Secretariat is keen on pushing immigration officials in the five countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) to fast-track the review of the new design of the passport and if done great benefits will go to Uganda safari/Uganda safari sector. A source at the Secretariat said the bloc has set a deadline of between March and June 2013 for the commencement of printing the new passport.

On the single tourist visa, the EAC principal tourism officer, Shedrack Mashauri said delays were being caused by a lack of consensus over visa fee collection and sharing model among the EAC partner states.

This is because, according to the plan, a tourist on a Uganda safari for example would apply and pay for a visa in any of the five states and this visa would be applicable for travel to all the countries in the region, thus necessitating the need for a proper revenue-sharing formula.

“We are also ought to accomplish harmonisation of immigration management systems and put some sophisticated ICT equipment that connects the relevant authorities in the five countries mainly for security reasons” Mr Mashauri said.

It is anticipated that issuance of a single EAC visa and passport would not only ease movement across the region, but significantly boost regional drive to promote the bloc as a single tourism destination a great boost to the Uganda safari business section .

“Tourists are constrained by time so the EAC to increase its global tourism market share must trim down the paperwork to the minimum possible and here comes the importance of a single visa” said Sirili Akko, Tanzania Association of Tour Operators executive officer.

The EAC is also planning to streamline the civil aviation authorities’ operations in the region as a way of liberalising the airspace a move warmly welcome by all Uganda safaris dealers as well as those in the general east African safari.

The EAC partner states would adopt common policies to harmonise civil aviation rules and regulations.

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Cultural events can awaken sleeping giant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marketing of East Africa’s rich art and culture poorly is dragging its competitiveness in this fruitful Uganda safari industry despite its great potential to even rival Brazil.

A statement from the East African Community said, “There are clear business benefits in developing cultural events that attract tourists who can go on Uganda safaris as well as attend the festival. For example, the Rio Carnival brings in an estimated $500 million into Brazil’s economy each year”.

Taking an example of the annual Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar which attracts more than 200 performers and thousands of visitors, experts say art and cultural events not only boosts the economy’s revenue but can also improve on the region’s tourism(Uganda safari sector) and travel sectors as some tourists later on get attracted to go on Uganda safaris as well.

Basing on this factor the EAC secretariat has organised the first ever East African Art and Culture Festival locally termed as Jam fest, or Jumuiya Ya Afrika Mashariki Utamaduni — that  will be launched in Kigali hoped to become a rotational festival.

The East African Community has however showed enthusiasm:

The festival runs for six days starting from February 11 to 16 and it is expected to attract over 300 participants coming from Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

Initially, each sister state was to send 50 participants. However, as the D-day drew closer, performing artists from various countries showed increasing enthusiasm, forcing the organisers to adjust the quota system.

Rica Rwigamba, head of conservation and tourism at the Rwanda Development Board, said the festival has helped the board to achieve its plan of promoting cultural events as part of a larger program to diversify on the tourism products and items as a broader picture is created instead of only focusing on safaris.

Diversifying on an industry’s products, according to experts, works as an attraction for more tourists and also makes them spend more time in the country even after their Uganda safaris as they have a variety to see as well as learn, which later translates into more revenue for the country at large and more income to help improve more on the tourism industry .This helps tourists take time off and learn about their hosts’ culture even after a Uganda safari.

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Anew airline joins the Ugandan flight/aviation market/Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Entebbe, Uganda – VistaJet International, which is one of the world’s luxury private Aviation Company for the first time ever landed one of its international air crafts at the Entebbe airport found in Uganda and officially launched its operations in the country,news that were received warmly by the Uganda safaris industry/Uganda tourism industry.

While unveiling the arrival of this three weeks old jet at Entebbe ,the founder and chairman of the VistaJet Thomas Flohr explained that the company is determined  to offer dedicated aircraft  services and will be flying Ugandans and other clients from different nationalities to their desired destinations in the world definitely some of these people shall be Uganda safari tourists/travellers heading to or going back home after a Uganda safari.

Thomas Flohr said that such booming markets like Uganda deserved brand new state of the art air crafts rather than ageing pre-owned aircraft they have been accustomed to and this is why the VistaJet is here and ready serve in Uganda.This obviously makes a safari to Uganda and generally all Uganda safaris more enjoyable since travelers shall travel in firs class modern jets.

The VistaJet company basically targets business community or corporate members as well as government leaders who want to be flown directly to the destinations they deserve at that particular time when they want to depart which isn’t the case with other commercial air crafts which operate on fixed schedules .This will also help boost the Uganda tour sector as clients with busy schedules who desire to be flown back home immediately after their Uganda safaris/Uganda tour/Uganda safari will comfortably fit in.

“The most important thing we base on in our operations is the time the passenger wants to arrive at the given destination and so those who will choose to use VistaJet will save time on delays due to connecting to airports and adopting the concept of private jets has been so much out of Africa but now is the time for the continent to go global, “he further explained. Ugandan business man, Charles Mbiire commented that the world today is about price, cost and time while business is all about efficiency and therefore competing globally in terms of business requires the introduction of such avenues.

Charles Mbiire said, “The people targeted here are the ones who think and spend therefore the notion of African time and arriving late at business meetings on the side of Africans is phased out with the arrival of VistaJet.”

During the year 2012, VistaJet flew over 25,000 passengers on 10,000 single international flights. All their transactions will be tabled between the client and the aircraft while putting into consideration those having expected travels of between 100 and 600 flights every year.

VistaJet only charges for the amount of  time spent on the aircraft a concept termed as ‘legs up and legs down’ in aircraft business and when the passenger will be done with conducting business,a great arrangement perhaps for many Uganda safari travellers especially those coming for scheduled Uganda safaris/Uganda tours.

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Anew airline joins the Ugandan flight/aviation market/Industry

 

 

 

 

 

In Entebbe, Uganda – VistaJet International, which is one of the world’s luxury private Aviation Company for the first time ever landed one of its international air crafts at the Entebbe airport found in Uganda and officially launched its operations in the country,news that were received warmly by the Uganda safaris industry/Uganda tourism industry.

While unveiling the arrival of this three weeks old jet at Entebbe ,the founder and chairman of the VistaJet Thomas Flohr explained that the company is determined  to offer dedicated aircraft  services and will be flying Ugandans and other clients from different nationalities to their desired destinations in the world definitely some of these people shall be Uganda safari tourists/travellers heading to or going back home after a Uganda safari.

Thomas Flohr said that such booming markets like Uganda deserved brand new state of the art air crafts rather than ageing pre-owned aircraft they have been accustomed to and this is why the VistaJet is here and ready serve in Uganda.This obviously makes a safari to Uganda and generally all Uganda safaris more enjoyable since travelers shall travel in firs class modern jets.

The VistaJet company basically targets business community or corporate members as well as government leaders who want to be flown directly to the destinations they deserve at that particular time when they want to depart which isn’t the case with other commercial air crafts which operate on fixed schedules .This will also help boost the Uganda tour sector as clients with busy schedules who desire to be flown back home immediately after their Uganda safaris/Uganda tour/Uganda safari will comfortably fit in.

“The most important thing we base on in our operations is the time the passenger wants to arrive at the given destination and so those who will choose to use VistaJet will save time on delays due to connecting to airports and adopting the concept of private jets has been so much out of Africa but now is the time for the continent to go global, “he further explained. Ugandan business man, Charles Mbiire commented that the world today is about price, cost and time while business is all about efficiency and therefore competing globally in terms of business requires the introduction of such avenues.

Charles Mbiire said, “The people targeted here are the ones who think and spend therefore the notion of African time and arriving late at business meetings on the side of Africans is phased out with the arrival of VistaJet.”

During the year 2012, VistaJet flew over 25,000 passengers on 10,000 single international flights. All their transactions will be tabled between the client and the aircraft while putting into consideration those having expected travels of between 100 and 600 flights every year.

VistaJet only charges for the amount of  time spent on the aircraft a concept termed as ‘legs up and legs down’ in aircraft business and when the passenger will be done with conducting business,a great arrangement perhaps for many Uganda safari travellers especially those coming for scheduled Uganda safaris/Uganda tours.

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The unspeakable beauty found at the unique Wildwaters’ Lodge

 

Splashing in the waters of Lake Victoria is so much fun especially if you are going to take a break after your Uganda safari in the ambiance of a comfortable lodge like Wildwaters’ Lodge. When you visit the getaway you can wish you would stay there for eternity as witnessed by all travelers that have come on various Uganda safaris.

Wildwaters lives up to its name, it is a beauty nestled in magnificent white waters, and most spectacular of these water falls being the Kalagala Falls that get their waters and force from the mighty River Nile-a must see Uganda safari or Uganda safaris` tourists.

Clients who on their Uganda safaris stay at Wildwaters see a lodge uniquely placed in the middle of Lake Victoria, in an enclave of trees and shrubs which thicken and give you the feeling you are at home with nature at this solid rock peninsula making your Uganda safari or Uganda tour unique and memorable.

It gives you the true feeling of getting out of the crowded noisy busy town, as this place has no dust, no cars or boda bodas (motorcycles) hooting, since it dwells in the middle of Africa’s gigantic fresh water body.

A work of art
Tourists that visit Uganda the pearl of Africa on their various Uganda safaris intimate that the closer  one gets to Wildwaters Lodge, the more exited you feel as you witness the water hitting against the rocks which offers a truly eye catching marvelous sight to behold.

With no dought,it is one place to go and “wash” your mind and soul of all your life’s dusty moments and memories, as it lets you enjoy maximum moments in this hidden haven.

The proprietor, Gav Fahey said that it took him two and half years to creatively bring out such beauty standing in the midst of a lake.

There is maximum hospitality and it greets you immediately when you reach the lodge. It begins with a lady or gentleman asking to help you with your luggage as another offer you a welcome glass of fresh juice you will definitely feel at home yet far away on a Uganda safari our safari to Uganda.

A marked out walk way leads you up to the reception area which has a spectacular dining area from where you can still catch sight of the wild waters, then a swimming pool that is fed with waters with racing rapids, a lovely relaxing area besides it and a common area from which you can relax as you sip on chilled Champagne.

Perfect for some quality time
The common area has a library, a breakfast lounge, surfing lounge that are beautifully decorated within head-level sight with overhead decorations like chimes and roofing architecture.

Right outside after the library is a unique wooden bridge, connecting to different points of the 10 timber-floor rooms and wooden walkways that connect the rooms from the bridge. Before you go to other Uganda safari tourist destination,this is a tourist attraction of its kind.

From your rooms you can enjoy solitude as you take a look at beautiful views of the shrubs underneath and overlooking the decks of the rooms as well as the falls on the east end of the island  and Nile’s wild with the thunderous rapids.
At your wooden balcony you can as well enjoy a private shower in bathtubs of cold and warm water, alone or with your loved one, without fear of snooping eyes,a great idea for Uganda safari honey mooners

You could as well do this within the fitted shower made of stone and steel showers. The sinks are artistically made with bowels molded out of clay, stone and then jars that will remind you of the past colonial times making it quite unique and bringing out the true feeling of a memorable Uganda safari, any of the many Uganda safaris provided you stay at Wildwaters Lodge during your Uganda tour/safari to Uganda .

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Cultural exchanges market Uganda’s arts and Tourism

 

Witnessed by many Travellers that had come on various Uganda safaris, January 11^th saw the New York University students together with students of Keenote the strains performed a Ugandan traditional dance with bits of Osibire bubi muwala we buyodi adokho, a Samia ethnic group inFang Fang Hotel in Nakasero.Such perfomances are to many tourists a Uganda siafari highlight.

The singer was Ian Collense, a gregarious Australian student, who is on a Study Abroad programme, which has brought students from New York University (NYU) to Uganda every January since 2007.

Themed projects
Two days later, he performed the Owaro dance alongside students of Keenote Centre in Mukono, almost upstaging them with how confidently he sang songs like Adokho, Orado, Auma wunyekele, Tula erwanyi, and Sesa alambe which were in a foreign language that is new to him this was so creative indeed.

Ian had spent only five days learning six Samia songs, and another four from the Ankore’s ekitagururo dance, during the workshop phase of the cultural exchange along with some dance students from Makerere University’s Department of Performing Arts and Film (DPAF).

This shares a formula with like-themed projects in which they collaborate in workshops and the product is part of a showcase performance, which is usually free to the public to observe. In between, the Ugandans play host, Uganda safari or Uganda safaris tour guides, translators, and chaperones.

Questionable areas in this issue are many. Honestly, is it really fair exchange when one side is giving authentic traditional dances as well as their traditional songs and another is only offering personalized choreography? If the hosts are not the chief sponsors, who exercises control over this program’s funds?

Personal benefits
Never the less despite such inherent challenges, the experience is largely mutual benefit to those who participate in the exchange programmes.

A case in point is Mabingo AlfDaniels, currently a Fulbright Scholar doing a Master’s degree in Dance Education at New York University. He narrated “Yes, I had lobbied and applied several times, but I believe when I added the experience of the NYU-DPAF collaboration to my submission, it greatly helped my chances of winning the scholarship. On a personal note, I can say this is how advantageous such programmes are,” testified Mabingo.

His equivalent on the NYU side is Yoko Sasaki, who first came to Uganda in 2009 as a study abroad or exchange program student as it is commonly known. This year, she later returned as a programme Assistant. Sasaki recognizes the competitive class and honor she attained after participating in this exchange program.

“Right after leaving in 2009, I applied both the positive and challenging feedback that I either observed or was told, and out of this experience learnt to be a better programme coordinator. Google is definitely no substitute for living and earning such an experience,” she explained.

The bigger picture
Professor Jill Pribyl, the Programme Director of the NYU-DPAF collaboration in Uganda, compares the aspect of teaching Ugandan dance to exchange program students to a pilgrimage. “It is like the difference between praying in church, and attending mass in Rome with the Pope giving the sermon.” She said.

She also believes in the values attained through such interactions countering the stereotype image people have of a desolate Africa with war-ravaged and hunger-stricken children having flies and tears on their faces.

“Foreign students who experience the various identities of Africa through the Ugandans they collaborate with can never again oversimplify the African situation,” she further explained.

Dispelling stereotypes
The ripple effect, on the students and the ones they teach, when they return to their countries is how cultural exchange programmes can be a viable approach of marketing and globalizing Uganda’s culture and arts or Uganda safaris at large, overcoming unflattering stereotypes and generalizations, and raising inter-cultural awareness as well as create appreciation.

Professor Deborah Damast, the Programme Director of NYU’s Study Abroad Programme to Uganda, explained the program’s value of fractal theory where its benefits reach where the teachers and resources do not or unable to.

She used the example of Vanessa Schneller, who participated in the inaugural program in 2007. “Every year since then, she has been teaching the Kimandwa dance to children. Last year, when she brought her second graders to a community workshop, they performed Kimandwa exactly as we all learned it, complete with lyrics and original dance moves”, which was really impressive.

Unpaid ambassadors

Every year, at the exchange students learn two different Ugandan dances. Since 2007, these included the Bakisimba and Amaggunju from Buganda; Ekimandwa, Ekizino and Ekitaguriro from Ankole, Gaze from West Nile, Owaro from the Samia, and Naleyo from Karamoja which all represent different Ugandan regions and bring out Uganda’s cultural heritage as can be witnessed by ant one that has had a Uganda safari that featured a Uganda cultural tour/dance expore.

By transforming Ian and Vanessa into ambassadors of Ugandan cultural arts, programmes like the NYU-DPAF collaboration popularise and making them valuable commodities in marketing Uganda’s cultural heritage thus contributing to Uganda’s tourism sector. More so, to the visiting teachers who incorporate the knowledge attained into subsequent classes upon returning home also help not only improve the Uganda safari sector and market all Uganda safaris.

“Gaze, Kizino and Ekimandwa are popular among former participants who specifically designed units on Ugandan dance and inter-cultural awareness after their exchange program here. Is there a better way to create a discipleship for Uganda’s arts and the country by association?” asked Mabingo.

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The Ultimate Safari-6 Days Uganda Gorilla Safari |6 Days Uganda Safari

6 Days Uganda Gorilla Tour – Mountain Gorillas, Wildlife & Chimps Safari in Uganda

Uganda`s population of mountain gorillas has been confirmed to have increased to a minimum of 400 according to results from the mountain gorilla census that was carried out by Uganda Wildlife Authority together with the International Gorilla Conservation Program(IGCP),Institute for the Conservation of Nature(ICCN)in DRC and RDB from Rwanda.

Scientifically referred to as Gorilla beringei beringei, Uganda`s mountain gorillas live in families headed by a Silverback as the dominant male. However, mountain gorilla families sometimes split up to form new groups especially when there is more than one silverback in a family.

This Uganda safari as well as other Uganda safaris that feature Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla Forest,will expose you to the 36 gorilla families in Bwindi and the 16 solitary males of which 10 are habituated for tourism and research.

Following the two censuses carried out in the Virunga Massif and in Bwindi in 2011,it has been confirmed that the world’s population of mountain gorillas now stands at a total of 880 after census results showed in 2010 that there were 480 mountain gorillas in the Virunga massif which comprises Rwanda`s Volcanoes National Park ,Uganda`s Mgahinga Gorilla National Park , and DRC`s Virunga National Park ,plus the 400 that has been confirmed present  in Uganda`s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

This means that Uganda is host to more than half of the world’s population of mountain gorillas and hence the Ultimate Uganda safari destination for tourists interested in Gorilla trekking/Gorilla tracking or a Gorilla tour .

The major highlights  on this 6 Days Uganda Gorilla tour includes:

• Gorilla Trekking
• Game drives in Queen Elizabeth national park
•  Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale forest national park

Day 1: Entebbe – Kampala
As you arrive at Entebbe International Airport you meet our tour agent who will warmly welcome you to your Uganda safari and take you to your Hotel. Depending on your time of arrival you may have the famous the Kampala tour to many Uganda safari/Uganda safaris travelers. On the check list are: Buganda Kingdom palace, the Bahai temple, Namugongo Uganda matrs shrine, Kasubi tombs and Uganda museum Uganda museum. Overnight at the The Lodge/ any Kampala hotel of your choice

Day 2:  Tranfer to Bwindi National Park  
After your early morning breakfast,you will start your actual Uganda safari by driving to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via Ishasha arriving in the evening at Buhoma. You will Dine and have the night at Buhoma community Rest Camp/ Gorilla Forest Camp /  Buhoma Lodge.

 Day 3: Gorilla Tracking
After a heavy breakfast and carry packed lunch have a briefing at the headquarter  after which embark on  gorilla tracking/Gorilla trekking in the forest at 8:00 am. On this Uganda safari as well as all Uganda safaris having gorilla trekking stipulate that the time you spend in the forest tracking the gorillas is unpredictable but ranges between 1 – 9 hours depending on the movement of these mountain gorillas. Your Dinner and overnight shall be at Gorilla Forest Camp / Buhoma Lodge / Buhoma community bandas

Day 4:  Queen Elizabeth national park safari
Just after your breakfast transfer to Ishasha Game Reserve to view tree-climbing lions as part of the menu on this Uganda safari. After, continue to Queen Elizabeth national park for your lunch at the lodge as you prepare for Kazinga Channel for the afternoon game drive. Your dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge / Hippo Hill Camp

Day 5: Game drive in Queen Elizabeth national park
At 6.00am have breakfast and right after enjoy a game drive to the northern sector of the park through the Kasenyi track in search for buffaloes, lions, Uganda kobs plus many bird species the wild game tour highlight of this Uganda safari as well as all Uganda safaris having Queen Elizabeth national park. After proceed to Fort Portal for a night at Mountains of the Moon Hotel as you prepare for a chimp trek in Kibale Forest national park the following morning yet another fascinating Uganda safari item.

DAY 6: Chimpanzee trekking
To finalise this 6 days Uganda safari, early in the morning you will go to Kibale forest headquarters for the 4 hours chimp trek starting at 8.00 am.  After this trek, you shall have lunch then transfer to Kampala where you will arrive in the evening.

Upon your request, this Uganda safari as well as all Uganda safaris that we offer can be customized to have  the Uganda safari/Uganda tour destinations, hotels and number of days that suit your safari desire upon request.

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In 2013 travel smarter when going for a Uganda safari/Uganda safaris

Uganda safari / Uganda safaris tips for easy travel . If you are keen on having a safari to Uganda sometime this year or in the near future, you are mostly likely to need some tips that will simplify your safari.

1. Your Travel/Safari Itinerary
Before you embark on your Uganda safari, ensure that you have a travel itinerary before starting the journey. Be it rough or detailed to suit your trip, your personality, but always know the brake down of where you are going and what you expect to see where and when.
If you are organizing your own Uganda safari or safari to Uganda, begin by finding out the professional`s way of doing it. You can for instance find out sample itineraries offered by safari/tour operators and recommend travel guide books then modify it to fit your safari interests.
Looking at photos from your country (Uganda in this case) you are planning to visit. Good photos of Uganda`s tourists attraction can help you to identifies the places and sights that attract you most.

You should be flexible with your itinerary to allow alterations because many times you will find unexpected interesting attractions after you have arrived at your destination (Uganda) for Uganda safari. You therefore should allow your self chance to do any activity freely with out rigidity so as to jump on any available memorable activity that may become the highlight of your safari.

2. Booking trips
Before you embark on booking your Uganda safari, do your best to get better and fair deals by considering/looking at several Uganda safaris and compare prices for the best deal. Do not assume that one company is cheaper or better because it is well known

Always remember that the more flexible you are with your safari dates,  the better your chances of getting good prices for your Uganda safari. For example, look out for the cheapest days of the week to fly on and find out if you are entitled for any discounts as this may lower your safari cost.

For the best prices also always chose a few companies and compare their price quotations and the determinants of their prices. It is important to compare item per item, and always add all taxes, any other fees and surcharges if not included in the safari price.
After making your booking forget about it and do not get frustrated if you find better price later elsewhere because what is done is done.

3. Safari clothes and travel gear
You have to wear no special clothes and gear when going for your Uganda safari. But you can put on some special there is a special travel wear and gear.
Travel clothes are comfortable and convenience, they are light and dry quickly, they wrinkle less they and are just perfect for a safari. Special travel gear makes your journey so comfortable and enjoyable.

4. Packing for a your safari to Uganda
Always pack smartly what ever you prefer or have to pack be it light or not. It is advised that you divide your luggage into what you must take and that you would like to take with you. Pack the must have items and then after pack the rest if you have some space.

Avoid exceeding the luggage allowance weight; because airlines are increasingly strict about their luggage weight allowances so always check them prior to traveling. How ever you are free to use your excess luggage allowance depending on the type of Safari and its requirements.

Creative use of the space you have and use of the bundle wrapping method or the rolling method as opposed to the folding method when packing your clothes is advised. Use some packing organization systems such as packing cubes and folders to save space and have your luggage organized through out you Uganda safari.

5. Always be open Minded
No matter your reason for having a Uganda safari; enjoyment, discovery and learning new things or for business, always be open minded. Whatever your reason to have this safari to Uganda is, you should always travel with an open mind and have a lot of patience.

Put in mind that some things may be different from what you know or expect. If it happens, instead of letting it bother you, just positively embrace the difference as an adventure away from home perhaps the essence of visiting strange/new places.

Apply common sense and a sense of humor around strangers and be kin not take any avoidable risks. Do not how ever assume that all strangers are harmful or dangerous for you will miss out on the lovely, charming Ugandans. Meeting and talking to native  people adds important flavor to your Uganda safari. Most local people enjoy talking to visitors of their country I am sure you do too.

6. Make your safari budget and follow it step by step

Many travelers tend to concentrate on the cost of getting to their travel destinations and staying there i.e flight and accommodation. Often they overlook how much to spend during their safaris.

Making you Uganda safari budget will save you money if followed. Ensure that you keep track of your expenditure while traveling to make sure you strictly spend as you budgeted. Stick to your budget in principle but not to stringent not to enjoy your safari. Always plan for miscellaneous funds to cater for eventualities

7. Keep a Travel Journal (s)
Many travelers quickly forget travel aspects quickly,therefore it wise you  a travel with a travel journal n your Uganda safari/Uganda safaris. This keeps you abbressed with facts about your strange safari destination. Travel blogs are popular both in writing and reading them and many safari lovers love writing and following other travelers.

8. Carry a good camera
Never forget to take a good camera to capture those precious items and memories you cannot have even at a cost once not captured fresh on your Uganda safari.Good photos taken on your safari to Uganda will always keep your precious and priceless memories of a great safari for a lot of time provided they are well kept.
If you have concerns about the safety of your camera , always make sure it is adequately monitored and use it carefully rather than leaving it at home for certainly you will always regret it.

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