(this home stay can be tailored into days/weeks/months depending on your timeframe)
PRICE: $1610 (there is a discount on 2, 4,6 people sharing accommodation)
Home Stay Experience is the most rewarding part of a global work/Volunteer travel experience. It is a valuable opportunity to improve a language skill, where you sleep and eat meals with host family in a home/culture/country that is different from yours.
While with us in this Home stay, you will experience first –hand customs/values of local Bakinga who call Uganda their Home. Enjoy holidays, locally prepared food, great baking stories that cannot be learned from a guide book. In your relaxing holidays or after a days activity, attend the dancing, sports events, craft and festival. This will introduce you to be part/bond into a relationship that will last for many years before you die.
Arrival at the airport in the morning and one of our guides is there waiting for you. Transfer to kampala city for cultural heritages and sites, city exploration then to your hotel for overnight.
Namirembe Guest House (FB)
After an early morning breakfaster, drive with a stopover at the equator to lake mburo national park for an afternoon game drive where you will get closer to wildlife like Giraffe, buffalos, topis, errand, Zebras, Rhinos, warthogs among others on the National park menu. Over night.
Leopard Lodge (FB)
After breakfast drive through nature and nature lovers will always want the driver guide to stop and take picture/photos and please do not miss as our driver/guide gives room for client’s satisfaction. Lunch along the way and Afternoon boat cruise on lake Bunyonyi, the most beautiful, highland, fresh water lake not only in UGANDA but in the world characterized with its 29 islands. Overnight
Byonamagara island (BB)
Home visits; Your guide will pick you from Lake Bunyonyi after breakfast and drop you to kabale city. You will take a 6km walk through the valley where you will spot a number of activities, like farms, brick laying, people in their gardens among others and do not hesitate to ask your guide and then go to your host family for check-in and orientation. Relax, have lunch and evening home visits and other things as the host family leads or depending on energy level.
HOST FAMILY (FB)
Art & craft; As part of your previous home visits, many crafts are made from individual homes, so you will single out these homes for this experience and learning from different home settings, feel free to participate or try making a craft but observe instruction from the person making. We shall organize lunch from the community (where you will be free to participate) till late in the evening.
HOST FAMILY FB
Agriculture Activities; It’s a very interesting and daily activity as 100% of the community depend on subsistence farming. You will take part, learn how to plant a crop or re-run from how you grow it from your country of origin and create a lasting memory in the community. then after transfer to bwinding impenetrable national park and overnight at Ride 4 women Lodge FB
Bwindi Impenetrable national park for Gorilla Tracking. then evening transfer to the nyabushabi community again.
and overnight at HOST FAMILY
Schools/churches/health care; These are things you are used to from a different setting in your culture. But understanding them from a Uganda setting leaves you with an experience of a life. Education services and how children learn in class, worshiping God in Church and your experience in a health center as compared to you country is really Unique.
HOST FAMILY
City tour/shoping; We hope at this time you have experienced the community and you are part of it but we need a refreshing environment. So the vehicle will pick you from the village and take you to a near by beautiful city for shopping in supermarkets, local market, visit the Baking Museum, administration centre and the COLONIAL Execution stone. HOST FAMILY
The cave Experience & pottery ; This is whereyour life through story telling meets your experience. You will have LUNCH prepared and eaten from a cave. You will listen your guide telling you how a man with his 3 women and children live there with their domestic animal (cows,goats,sheep) and many more other. After you will join the pottery trail as we end the day. Over night HOST FAMILY
After early morning breakfast, drive to Entebbe airport for your late evening flight.
