The United Nations General Assembly declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development recalling the potential of tourism. During 12 months the organisation features international sustainable tourism initiatives including ourselves. Read the full feature on the campaign website Tourism4Develoment.com
Kara-Tunga Arts & Tours
For long, tourism in Uganda has been focused on wildlife safaris and other tourist destinations but community tourism is an opportunity for the local community to participate and benefit from their natural and cultural resources.
Tourism development is therefore at the core of our operations. We focus on rural areas affected most by decline in the capacity of agriculture. Degeneration of the countryside is prevented and cultural heritage preserved by raising supplementary family income through tourism.
We focus on identifying potential tourism sites and activities, building community capacity through education and creating demand through marketing and packaging.
Karamoja (northeast Uganda) suffers from a negative image due to decades of isolation and insecurity. But after peace has returned (2011), the perception of the region by fellow Ugandans and the international community hasn’t changed.
Discover Karamoja project is aimed at positively changing the image of Karamoja through photography.
Karamoja Tourism is promoting Karamoja in the domestic and international market and is working toward repositioning the image of the region.
The Karamoja Tourism website features information that is relevant to travellers who are thinking about and actively planning a visit the north east of Uganda. Through this site, potential visitors will be able to learn about the diversity of what Karamoja has to offer and how to make their visit a fantastic experience.
Africa’s most popular online SafariBookings platform announced the annual winners. Even though Uganda did not win the overall score (Botswana #1, Tanzania #2, Zambia #3, Kenya #4, Uganda #5), it won the most important prize to me: The traveller’s vote.
Two journalists of Uganda’s Daily Monitor joined the Tour of Karamoja 2021 to report about the unique experience following the Warrior Nomad Trail. Continue reading for an impression of the publication.
Nazir Abbas: “I was staying at the guest house of Kara-tunga Tours when I noticed a striking young man having tea next to the cozy fire. He caught my attention and we started chatting. His name was King and he was part of the Karamojong tribe. Fascinated to learn about their culture, I started asking …
Uganda’s northeast Karamojaland has kept many secrets due Its inaccessibility, only recently, researchers and scholars have started to explore these forgotten corners of the country. Kara-Tunga hosted two Kenya-based researchers for 10 days Trekking of Uganda’s Mount Kadam, in search for the unknown but with the gut feeling of finding something special to come back …
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Kara-Tunga ft Sustainable Uganda Tour Operator
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development recalling the potential of tourism. During 12 months the organisation features international sustainable tourism initiatives including ourselves. Read the full feature on the campaign website Tourism4Develoment.com
Kara-Tunga Arts & Tours
For long, tourism in Uganda has been focused on wildlife safaris and other tourist destinations but community tourism is an opportunity for the local community to participate and benefit from their natural and cultural resources.
Tourism development is therefore at the core of our operations. We focus on rural areas affected most by decline in the capacity of agriculture. Degeneration of the countryside is prevented and cultural heritage preserved by raising supplementary family income through tourism.
We focus on identifying potential tourism sites and activities, building community capacity through education and creating demand through marketing and packaging.
www.kara-tunga.com
Discover Karamoja
Karamoja (northeast Uganda) suffers from a negative image due to decades of isolation and insecurity. But after peace has returned (2011), the perception of the region by fellow Ugandans and the international community hasn’t changed.
Discover Karamoja project is aimed at positively changing the image of Karamoja through photography.
www.discoverkaramoja.com
Karamoja Tourism
Karamoja Tourism is promoting Karamoja in the domestic and international market and is working toward repositioning the image of the region.
The Karamoja Tourism website features information that is relevant to travellers who are thinking about and actively planning a visit the north east of Uganda. Through this site, potential visitors will be able to learn about the diversity of what Karamoja has to offer and how to make their visit a fantastic experience.
www.karamojatourism.com
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Tour of Karamoja 2021 in Daily Monitor Newspaper
Two journalists of Uganda’s Daily Monitor joined the Tour of Karamoja 2021 to report about the unique experience following the Warrior Nomad Trail. Continue reading for an impression of the publication.
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Uganda’s northeast Karamojaland has kept many secrets due Its inaccessibility, only recently, researchers and scholars have started to explore these forgotten corners of the country. Kara-Tunga hosted two Kenya-based researchers for 10 days Trekking of Uganda’s Mount Kadam, in search for the unknown but with the gut feeling of finding something special to come back …