Wonderful Birds Karamoja Northeastern Uganda - One of the treasures of Uganda’s Northeastern Karamojaland is the unique Birdlife sighted from the wetlands system in the South and West, the lush forests around the mountain ranges and the thorny acacia thickets and Savannah grasslands on the undulating plains in between. During the last days, we had [...]
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Wonderful birds in Karamoja, Northeastern frontier of Uganda
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Granite Rock ‘Ruoth’ in Abim offers Uganda’s best Climbing
Granite Rock 'Ruoth' in Abim offers Uganda's best Climbing - The Ruth rock nicknamed 'Chief', is called one of Uganda's most impressive rock features with some of the best climbing found in Uganda. Though climbed by only a few frontiers with the first found record in 1957. Yosemite-esque scale What looked like a few [...] More -
Climbing the Mysterious Granite Rock Ruoth in Abim Uganda
Climbing the Mysterious Granite Rock Ruoth in Abim District of Northeastern Uganda (February 2013) - Beyond Abim we soon found ourselves staring at the incredible piece of rock we had come to climb, an immense granite dome called Ruoth (The Chief). The main face was 500m of smooth, black, undulating granite, not devoid of weaknesses [...] More -
Assessment Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto
Skilling Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto - Kara-Tunga is building a sustainable community-lead regional tourism sector through skilling with the Karamoja Tourism Academy. Together with our partners, we develop demand-based curriculum, train local trainers and local assessors aimed at increasing the accessibility and inspiring the community. Today we are receiving hiking and trekking guides [...] More -
Watch: Karamoja Hiking Guides Assessment
Practical Assessment Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto - We have concluded a fantastic week of assessing Karamoja's Hiking Guides along the Warrior Nomad Trail for a future made-to-measure training programme that will be piloted with this group next year. The facilitator Jan Bakker and Bergwandelen.com will develop a training program tailored to the conditions [...] More -
Hiking Untamed Mountains of Karamoja in Northeastern Uganda
Hiking Untamed Mountains of Karamoja in Northeastern Uganda - Kara-Tunga is developing a trail for untamed outdoor adventure (hiking, cycling, walking) with authentic cultural experiences through Uganda's lesser travelled Karamojaland. The Warrior Nomad Trail aims at making Karamojaland a bucket-list destination for travellers and thereby creating job opportunities for the local communities, protecting the cultural [...] More -
Birding in and around Moroto
By Herbert Byaruhanga – This bird was our bird of the day. According to the Birdlife International distribution map, the White-bellied Canary (Crithagra dorsostriata) enters Uganda slightly. The bird of the day The field guidebook Birds of East Africa shows also tells us the same message. Its not a common bird. Crammy Uganda Wanyama told [...] More -
Karamoja Tour Guides develop National Assessment tools
We are proud to see our tour guides (Emmanuel, Peter, Brian and Thomas) being part of this milestone in professionalising Uganda's tourism sector through government regulated licensing of tourist guides. They just completed a second workshop at Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre in Entebbe to finalise on the development of the assessment tools for Uganda's [...] More -
Documentary COVID-19 Hope for Tourism in Karamoja
Documentary COVID-19 Hope for Tourism in Karamoja - This is where the Kara-Tunga journey started, 4 years ago on Mountain Moroto. And today we are grateful to be able to share why Karamoja is undoubtedly Uganda's Best Kept Secret with the help of the makers of 'The Best Job Ever - A Documentary of 14 [...] More -
Motorbike Trip through Karamoja and Turkana land on Warrior Nomad Trail
Motorbike Safari through Uganda's Karamoja land - The Dutch couple Mandy and Peter travelled a week through Karamoja land and drove their motorbikes through the savannah planes and volcanic ranges. We had the pleasure to guide them through our homeland and gave them a taste of our untouched culture and true African wilderness. Are you [...] More
