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 Matheniko Wildlife Reserve. The Reserve is located on the Eastern border of the Karamoja subregion and the hills are the first place of settlement and of major dispatch of present day clans.
Warrior Nomad Trail
The Warrior Nomad Trail is a new initiative of Kara-Tunga and part of Tourism Trails in the Pearl of Africa project. This project has the ambition to improve the competitiveness of Uganda as destination and create jobs by developing adventure and cultural tourism products.
This publication highlights several points of interest along the Warrior Nomad Trail. Learn more about the project here.
Video’s
Below video features many scenes from this trip to Karamoja as also showcased in the publication.
The below video is taken during the last trip to the sacred lands of the Karimojong in Matheniko Wildlife Reserve. Learn more.
The journalist
Marcus calls himself a photographer, storyteller and guide, primarily in Africa but also in Europe and Asia. He has an impressive portfolio with publications in worlds renown media. Read more about Marcus on his website: www.marcuswestberg.photo
Marcus Westberg Virtual Tour on New York Times Live:
Update: Karamoja takes the crown for Miss Tourism Uganda! (Read the article) One of our objectives is to preserve Karimojong Cultural Heritage through tourism and in collaboration with likeminded organisations. Therefore we partnered up with Miss Tourism Karamoja to contribute in enhancing the knowledge on culture of our future tourism ambassadors.
We’re happy to announce that we’re proud partners of Cross Cultural Foundation Uganda (CCFU) Cultural Heritage Education Programme in the Karamoja region.
Hidden valleys, isolated rural communities and wildlife good-news-stories. Writer Sarah Marshall goes beyond Uganda’s gorillas to find that Uganda is far more diverse than you might think…
Dutch hiking tour company Bergwandelen.com and expedition leader Jan Bakker will train a selection of hiking guides from various mountain ranges located in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region, Kenya and South Sudan on the Warrior Nomad Trail. and have mobilised their network to donate hiking equipment.
Karamoja Travel Guide in Swedish Vagabond Magazine
Read our travel report of our walk to the sacred hills of the Karimojong tribe within Uganda’s Matheniko Wildlife Reserve. The Reserve is located on the Eastern border of the Karamoja subregion and the hills are the first place of settlement and of major dispatch of present day clans.
Warrior Nomad Trail
The Warrior Nomad Trail is a new initiative of Kara-Tunga and part of Tourism Trails in the Pearl of Africa project. This project has the ambition to improve the competitiveness of Uganda as destination and create jobs by developing adventure and cultural tourism products.
This publication highlights several points of interest along the Warrior Nomad Trail. Learn more about the project here.
Video’s
Below video features many scenes from this trip to Karamoja as also showcased in the publication.
The below video is taken during the last trip to the sacred lands of the Karimojong in Matheniko Wildlife Reserve. Learn more.
The journalist
Marcus calls himself a photographer, storyteller and guide, primarily in Africa but also in Europe and Asia. He has an impressive portfolio with publications in worlds renown media. Read more about Marcus on his website: www.marcuswestberg.photo
Marcus Westberg Virtual Tour on New York Times Live:
The publication
View shots of the publication in the Swedish Vagabond Travel Magazine.
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Official partner of Miss Tourism Karamoja
Update: Karamoja takes the crown for Miss Tourism Uganda! (Read the article) One of our objectives is to preserve Karimojong Cultural Heritage through tourism and in collaboration with likeminded organisations. Therefore we partnered up with Miss Tourism Karamoja to contribute in enhancing the knowledge on culture of our future tourism ambassadors.
Karamoja Cultural Heritage Education Programme
We’re happy to announce that we’re proud partners of Cross Cultural Foundation Uganda (CCFU) Cultural Heritage Education Programme in the Karamoja region.
A hike to the Ik people, a highlight in many ways
Hidden valleys, isolated rural communities and wildlife good-news-stories. Writer Sarah Marshall goes beyond Uganda’s gorillas to find that Uganda is far more diverse than you might think…
Fundraising Hiking gear for Karamoja Guides
Dutch hiking tour company Bergwandelen.com and expedition leader Jan Bakker will train a selection of hiking guides from various mountain ranges located in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region, Kenya and South Sudan on the Warrior Nomad Trail. and have mobilised their network to donate hiking equipment.