ENTANDA CULTURAL EXPERIENCE

While most tourists come mainly for wildlife viewing in Africa’s national parks, Uganda offers yet another exciting experience for visitor on safari to Africa. Combining game drives with cultural safaris in Uganda rewards travelers with lifetime experiences. Uganda consists of more than 650 designated cultural sites and monuments and 2 (two) UNESCO World Heritage Sites, eight more sites are yet to be approved. For amazing cultural safaris in Uganda, consider visiting Entanda Traditional Hunting and Cultural Experiences and you won’t regret in life. Entanda is located 60 kilometers away from Kampala city. While at a distance, you can hear the sounds of the African drums and the more you get closer, they become louder. The traditional music with local residents offers the most remarkable experiences for visitors on Uganda safaris. A safari to this cultural site rewards visitors with fruits like watermelon, guavas, passion fruit, paw paws, yellow banana, jack fruit, sour sop fruits and many more. There are traditional games for visitors to enjoy for instance bow and arrow shooting competition, learn how to play the Sekitulege a local musical instrument which about 6 centuries old.

FRUITS TO BE ENJOYED

TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE

You will also have opportunity to climb the hills, or visit wetlands, forests and homesteads while looking for animals to hunt. Residents in the area will take an initiative to show you everything right from how to carry hunting spears, machetes and horns. They will identify the animals that they will find but the hunting doesn’t mean shoot to kill. The technique is applied to allow more wildlife to recover after many years of hunting.

Whereas male visitors set off for hunting, the females stay back home with local women who will take them to the gardens to harvest food. They prepare the local dishes together with tourists using traditional techniques and cook it as they wait for the husbands to come back from the field. As food boils on the fire, tourists are guided by the Ssenga also referred as auntie to the bush to explore on the marriage and home management affairs. She takes visitors through traditional practices of how to look after the husband, how to use certain local herbs to treat the sick people and how to manage a home in a typical Kiganda tradition. Bed matters are also deeply discussed around the same area.

When the men come back from hunting, tired and hungry, food will be served hot and steaming and everyone sits on the floor and uses bare hands to eat. After lunch Kojja also referred as uncle talks about marriage matters as well as bed issues with men. After you are done with lunch, tourists can choose to explore more local herbs or wine processing and testing or join the herdsmen for an afternoon grazing of animals and milking cows. In case you need to go and play football, you can still make a team and do it as the last activity with the local residents. Ladies and gentlemen are all free to team up together. In case the tourists win the match, they are offered goats to roast while they party with the local residents.

FOOTBALL TIME

In conclusion, it is only in Uganda where you can unique cultural experiences that thrill into visitors’ mind. Come and explore the Entanda cultural practices and be amazed with lifetime experiences!