Impact of COVID-19 on Community Tourism on Mt Moroto – The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached even the most remote areas of Uganda. The host communities used to benefit from additional income through community tourism and freedom of movement for local business.
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Video: Impact of COVID-19 and Community Tourism on Mt Moroto
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Video: Impact of COVID-19 and Community Tourism in Karamoja
Impact of COVID-19 on Community Tourism in Karamoja – The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached even the most remote areas of Uganda. The host communities used to benefit from additional income through community tourism and freedom of movement for local business. Continue reading and watch the videos to learn about the positive impacts …
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Noorderpoort College Visits Karamoja for Warrior Nomad Trail
Noorderpoort College Visits Karamoja for Warrior Nomad Trail – After a long car ride and with the dust on our faces, we drive through the gate at Kara-Tunga Tours, a sustainable tour operator that provides authentic cultural excursions and outdoor adventures in Karamoja (Northeast Uganda).
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Photographers journey to Lake Turkana for Warrior Nomad Trail
Exploring Lake Turkana for the Warrior Nomad Trail – Dutch Photographer Jesse Simonis and Kara-Tunga travelled to the west of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya to explore possibilities of including worlds largest desert lake on the Warrior Nomad Trail map.
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Trekking Uganda’s Mt Kadam: Unraveling secrets of Karamojaland
Trekking Uganda’s Mt Kadam with Kenya-based Dutch primatologist Yvonne A. de Jong and American conservationist and ecologist Thomas M. Butynski have had an interest for what lies within the forgotten corners of Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region and bordering Kenya’s Turkana and West-Pokot counties.
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Voluntary work in Karamoja Uganda – Remote and authentic experience
Voluntary work in Karamoja Uganda – I checked a long existing bucket list item…. a trip to Uganda. What an experience this was! This truly is ‘the pearl of Africa’…
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Three weeks tailor-made Trip through Uganda’s Karamojaland
Three weeks tailor-made Trip through Uganda’s Karamojaland – We (Dutch couple) made a trip lasting almost three weeks through Karamojaland. And we are so glad that we did this!!
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Karamoja has become a safe tourist destination
Karamoja has become a safe tourist destination – It’s the first question I ask Theo Vos, the charming 33 year-old founder of Kara Tunga, which is the travel company that arranged my visit of the last two days. He is developing cultural tourism to the region, he explains. Theo, whose mother is from Karamojong descent, …
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My Internship Karamoja Sustainable Tourism Management
Internship Karamoja Sustainable Tourism Management – In 2019, I got the chance to be part of Kara-Tunga team as a volunteer for 6 months, from February to July 2019. What a pleasure! I was in charge of the sustainable development of the tour company and especially of helping them being certified Travelife (a sustainable tourism …
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My unforgettable six months in Northeast Uganda developing Karamoja Tourism Academy
Last November 2018, Theo (founder/director of Kara-Tunga) asked me to come to Moroto to coordinate the research for the Karamoja Tourism Academy. I never hesitated and resigned from my job in the Netherlands. A few weeks later I was there, fresh in Karamoja.
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