Since our beginnings, we have been blessed to collaborate with photographer, story teller and guide Marcus Westberg. His passion for the remote and unknown made us engage in a long-term commitment to cover Uganda's best kept secret: Karamoja. Read our travel report of our walk to the sacred hills of the Karimojong tribe within Uganda's [...]
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Karamoja Travel Guide in Swedish Vagabond Magazine
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Video: Impact of COVID-19 and Community Tourism on Mt Moroto
Impact of COVID-19 on Community Tourism on Mt Moroto - The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached even the most remote areas of Uganda. The host communities used to benefit from additional income through community tourism and freedom of movement for local business. The impact of COVID-19 and Community Tourism on Mt Moroto Kara-Tunga [...] More -
Video: Impact of COVID-19 and Community Tourism in Karamoja
Impact of COVID-19 on Community Tourism in Karamoja - The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached even the most remote areas of Uganda. The host communities used to benefit from additional income through community tourism and freedom of movement for local business. Continue reading and watch the videos to learn about the positive impacts [...] More -
Noorderpoort College Visits Karamoja for Warrior Nomad Trail
The Dutch Noorderpoort College visits Karamoja to kickstart the Warrior Nomad Trail development partnership aimed at sustainable regional tourism development through skilling. Noorderpoort College: "After a long car ride and with the dust on our faces, we drive through the gate at Karamoja Safari Camp, founded by Kara-Tunga, a sustainable tour operator that provides authentic [...] More -
Photographers journey to Lake Turkana for Warrior Nomad Trail
Exploring Lake Turkana for the Warrior Nomad Trail - Dutch Photographer Jesse Simonis and Kara-Tunga travelled to the west of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya to explore possibilities of including worlds largest desert lake on the Warrior Nomad Trail map. About Turkana Land Turkana County also know as Turkanaland, covers the northwest of Kenya. It [...] More -
Trekking Uganda’s Mt Kadam: Unraveling secrets of Karamojaland
Trekking Uganda's Mount Kadam with Kenya-based Dutch primatologist Yvonne A. de Jong and American conservationist and ecologist Thomas M. Butynski have had an interest for what lies within the forgotten corners of Uganda's Karamoja sub-region and bordering Kenya's Turkana and West-Pokot counties. Yvonne A. de Jong and Thomas M. Butynski combined have worked in Africa [...] More -
Voluntary work in Karamoja Uganda – Remote and authentic experience
Voluntary work in Karamoja Uganda - I checked a long existing bucket list item…. a trip to Uganda. What an experience this was! This truly is ‘the pearl of Africa’... I did voluntary work in Karamoja, a remote region in Northeast Uganda with amazing authentic cultural experiences. The local tribes have a basic way of [...] More -
Three weeks tailor-made Trip through Uganda’s Karamojaland
Three weeks tailor-made Trip through Uganda's Karamojaland - We (Dutch couple) made a trip lasting almost three weeks through Karamojaland. And we are so glad that we did this!! Before setting off we got in touch with friendly and sensitive Theo Vos, the owner of Kara-Tunga, a very relaxed yet professional agency, specialised in Karamojaland. [...] More -
Karamoja has become a safe tourist destination
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, [...] More -
My Internship Karamoja Sustainable Tourism Management
Internship Karamoja Sustainable Tourism Management - In 2019, I got the chance to be part of Kara-Tunga team as a volunteer for 6 months, from February to July 2019. What a pleasure! I was in charge of the sustainable development of the tour company and especially of helping them being certified Travelife (a sustainable tourism [...] More
