For travelers seeking a deeper connection to Uganda, our Homestay Experience offers the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in local life. Step beyond the traditional tourist path and live among welcoming Ugandan families, gaining an intimate understanding of the country’s rich culture, traditions, and everyday life.
Through our Homestay Experience, you’ll enjoy home-cooked meals made with fresh, local ingredients and experience firsthand the warmth and hospitality that define Ugandan communities. Each stay not only supports local families but also gives you the chance to engage in meaningful cultural exchanges—whether through learning traditional crafts, hearing local stories, or participating in community-led activities.
This is more than just accommodation; it’s a chance to experience Uganda in its truest form, where every interaction enriches both the guest and the host. Leave with unforgettable memories and the satisfaction of knowing your visit has directly contributed to the community’s well-being.
BAHEKA TRAVEL has a unique fusion of passionate expert local guides/team committed to sustainable and ethical travels in Uganda the Pearl of Africa.
We offer unique an amazing travel experience. Through Responsible/community/cultural/ecotourism as well as classical tourism from private day tours/trips to our fully inclusive private great journeys.
With our travel business experiences based on light and large adventures, cultural, safaris, wildlife, bird watching, water cruise, mountain hiking, students packages, agritourism and travel Volunteers. We have something to suit every one.
We take the time to access each of the experience and packages to ensure we increase your travel footprint from the use of locally owned service provider, to visiting and financially supporting local community projects we truly believe.
Our ownership structure is also Unique as we are owned for the benefit of registered group members of the community. This means that every time you book one of our packages or experiences money flows to a worthwhile community project in the places we operate.
BAHEKA TRAVEL was started with the objective of supporting the community who are the conservers of nature/environment for future generation’s Use and sustainability.
Unforgettable wildlife, nature, safaris and other classical setup of Uganda’s tourism menu.
To achieve self-sufficient, we are creating a structure where we partner with passionate international partners and locals to bring you an amazing travel experiences and packages. Every time you book, real positive things happen in the community we visit.
From Using local businesses, to us being able to put our profits into supporting positive initiatives in the communities, you can be confident that “ Great Journeys Make a Difference”
Home Stay Experience is the most rewarding part of Responsible tourism, global work and Volunteer travel experience. It is a valuable opportunity to improve a language skill, where you sleep and eat meals with a host family in a home/culture/country that is different from yours.
While with us in this Home stay experience trip, you will experience first –hand customs/values of local Ugandans who call Uganda their Home. Enjoy holidays, locally prepared food, great stories that cannot be learned from a guide book. In your relaxing holidays or after a day’s 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.
Nyabushabi Village is a magical village in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale District. It’s a narrow valley connected from Kabale city, This village has a unique atmosphere to nature, community walks, culture. among others. The community has hospitable people, enthusiastic and welcome you with a stress free smile to their home.
While with us in this village, you only wait to be limited by your time frame as you will learn, re-learn and unlearn from people who call this village their land. You experience culture, Hiking hills, walking in valleys, you will receive children’s entertainments along the way and you will be amazed.
You will enjoy the home setting, family culture, food, different stories, Agriculture, craft making, pottery, cave experience, feed/graze a domestic animal, Hiking, spiritual worship, school experience and interaction with children in school, visit health care services and the biodiversity of the community among others. This will make you appreciate nature and culture that is different from yours.
There are so many questions involved in this; what is it?, what is it all about? What experience is got? Where, why and how to find this in a community? Is there Value for money in this? You are not alone!!! Every human being who has never been to a home, community, country, culture and personality that is different from his, has always wondered how it feels like. Guess what it brings to you before you book your trip.
Our customers are males and females from all walks of the world aged 18-75. Based on our objective people are passionate about culture, donating, study researches and are people of the middle earning income, people who can support/donate and also donate their time through volunteering to some of community development projects.
Home stays Experience can be the most rewarding part of a world travel volunteer, work, internship or research. We have designed the home stay to be very individually, couple, groups, students friendly. A home stay experience is a valuable opportunity to improve your versity knowledge about culture, country and improve a language skill by immersing yourself in a situation where communication in English or local Languange is a MUST BETWEEN The tourist and Host family! You will eat most of your meals with your host family and sleep in their home. You will not be isolated with your family as you will be with the whole family activities/work during most days to work on a project or head out on a excursion. If you are a student, researcher or an intern, On weekends, you will spend a majority of the time with your host family doing activities that they enjoy sharing with you. Many evenings you will find yourself getting together with other, students, leaders and the home stay families to participate in various social activities.
While there is no typical home stay experience, Many people will stay in touch with their host families for years to come.
One thing certain- the home stay is bound to be the most wonderfully dramatic and memorable part of the trip. Each year our clients shall reflect on their home stay as the best part of their trip.
“Enahanced Languange Immersion”
Most of home stay families do not speak English or your language, and staying in a homestay vastly improves language skills
Experience first –hand customs, local holiday, home-cooked food, and general daily life. Families share their local knowledge stories…..
this cannot be learned from a guide book.
Tourists,students, interns, Researcher while with us!! Attend celebrations, dances, sports events, burial/fenural ceremonies, potlucks, crafts, places of worship and festivals becoming a member of the family and community versus solely a guest or visitor forms lasting bonds and friendships for many years to come.
It includes meals, 1.5ml water bottle, guides, activity money.
It excludes: Flight, Visa, Medical/travel insurance, Airport transfers but you can let us arrange for you, Donations and tips, Soverniours, Money for shopping in the city
Home visits; Your guide will pick you from your hotel in kabale city after breakfast. You will take a 6km walk through the valley where you will spot a number of activies, like farms, brick laying, people in their gardens among others and do not hestate to ask your guide and the 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
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.
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.
Hiking Valleys and hills; This is the most fascinating and interesting moment to appreciate nature, you will reach a point and view the landscape feel life is back to normal.
Schools/churches/health care; These are things you are used to from a different setting in your culture. But understing them from a Uganda setting leave you with an experienceof 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.
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. BACK TO YOUR HOST FAMILY.
The cave Experience & pottery ; This is where your 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. This lunch???????? After you will join the pottery trail as we end the day.
We offer a craft gift, couple and group discounts.
Responsibility, such as cooking, cleaning and helping around the house, build personal growth and prepare yourself to live in a group home setting, such as at college or university. On an important note, we are looking on a well conserved environment through Planting a tree that will modify our climate and environment, clear waste disposal that will save water contamination and other refuse. Power saving energy among others as advised by the host family and your guide.
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Exploring Uganda was a dream come true! From tracking gorillas in Bwindi to cruising along the Nile, every moment was magical. The guides were knowledgeable and friendly, making us feel safe and excited throughout. I can’t wait to come back and experience even more!
I’ve traveled to many places, but Uganda stole my heart. The landscapes are breathtaking, and the wildlife encounters were beyond anything I imagined. The team made sure we were comfortable and went above and beyond to make our experience memorable. Highly recommend this adventure!
Uganda is a hidden gem in East Africa. The blend of nature, wildlife, and culture created an unforgettable journey. Every day was an adventure, and the team’s attention to detail was outstanding. A perfect destination for nature lovers!
