Traveling Karamoja, a secret gem of Uganda – This incredible organization was founded when a passionate half-Dutch/half-Karamojong came back to Uganda to explore his roots, traveling for months talking to elders, climbing mountains, and exploring the culture. Since its start, Kara-Tunga continues lifting up the culture and the people of Karamoja.
Personally, I did an overnight stay in a Tepeth village on Mount Moroto, a disappearing tribe from where the Karamoja tribe has origins. On the hike up the mountain, my Karamoja tour guide explained many of the local plants and their medicinal properties. I learned about ceremonies, religious ideologies, and the rich stories of a pastoralist culture.
As we arrived to the village, we sang, danced, made yogurt together, watched the stars, and shared stories about the times of raids and migration. I fell asleep in the tent to the sound of laugher from the neighbouring village hut.
Furthermore, their tour guides also play a part in preserving the culture, collecting knowledge about certain plants or traditions each time they take visitors so that the knowledge can be written and shared with the next generation. I appreciate how Kara-Tunga is a company that thinks ethically about its social mission and how it can preserve a culture that is slowly disappearing with changing times.
The Karamoja region is such a secret gem of Uganda that has only recently opened up to visitors, and Kara-Tunga makes it possible to live and learn from the life in Karamoja. Ten out of ten would recommend!
Read the original review of Vivian Ho on Facebook.
Meeting Remarkable Females during Karamoja Village Tour – What better day to highlight the contribution of women than today – Mother’s Day! We took a tour of the Karamojong village to see how the tribe lives and encountered several remarkable females – building homes, carrying water jugs, gardening and doing other chores. They reminded me …
I just returned from a weeklong 350-mile cycling tour in the truly remote reaches of Northeast Uganda and Northwest Kenya known as the Tour of Karamoja; and while I feel a little tired from the physical effort, boy do I feel inspired, mentally refreshed, recharged and rejuvenated!
Karamoja has become a safe tourist destination – It’s the first question I ask Theo Vos, the charming 33 year-old founder of Kara Tunga, which is the travel company that arranged my visit of the last two days. He is developing cultural tourism to the region, he explains. Theo, whose mother is from Karamojong descent, …
Kara-Tunga hosts EU Ambassadors for 2nd Time In November 2019, Kara-Tunga hosts EU Heads of Mission for the second time in Karamoja and gave them a cultural experience of the Tepeth-tribe living on the foothills of Mount Moroto.
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Traveling Karamoja, a secret gem of Uganda
Traveling Karamoja, a secret gem of Uganda – This incredible organization was founded when a passionate half-Dutch/half-Karamojong came back to Uganda to explore his roots, traveling for months talking to elders, climbing mountains, and exploring the culture. Since its start, Kara-Tunga continues lifting up the culture and the people of Karamoja.
Personally, I did an overnight stay in a Tepeth village on Mount Moroto, a disappearing tribe from where the Karamoja tribe has origins. On the hike up the mountain, my Karamoja tour guide explained many of the local plants and their medicinal properties. I learned about ceremonies, religious ideologies, and the rich stories of a pastoralist culture.
As we arrived to the village, we sang, danced, made yogurt together, watched the stars, and shared stories about the times of raids and migration. I fell asleep in the tent to the sound of laugher from the neighbouring village hut.
Furthermore, their tour guides also play a part in preserving the culture, collecting knowledge about certain plants or traditions each time they take visitors so that the knowledge can be written and shared with the next generation. I appreciate how Kara-Tunga is a company that thinks ethically about its social mission and how it can preserve a culture that is slowly disappearing with changing times.
The Karamoja region is such a secret gem of Uganda that has only recently opened up to visitors, and Kara-Tunga makes it possible to live and learn from the life in Karamoja. Ten out of ten would recommend!
Read the original review of Vivian Ho on Facebook.
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