The first group of Karamoja regional hiking guides have successfully completed the hiking guiding training by Bergwandelen.com in collaboration with Karamoja Tourism Academy. It was an eyeopening experience for both the participants and the facilitators, hiking the two highest mountain ranges (Mt Kadam and Mt Moroto) in Karamojaland.
We agreed to continue to build the capacity of the hiking guides in the region, seek for opportunities of exposure visits and to improve the current trail-networks and safety measures.
This opportunity was made possible through the Adventure Tourism Uganda initiative and is part of the Karamoja regional Warrior Nomad Trail initiative for tourism promotion and development.
Fundraising of hiking gear
Dutch hiking tour company Bergwandelen.com and expedition leader Jan Bakker mobilised their network to donate hiking equipment for hiking guides in Uganda. Learn more…
Knowing which animals live where is critical to planning effective conservation following to the two researchers. With the support of a grant from the National Geographic Society they are now focusing their research on the primates of Uganda. They conducted primate surveys in northeastern Uganda from 2014 to 2017
There are three routes from Kenya to Ethiopia, two routes along the Eastern shores of Lake Turkana through Marsabit county and one on the Western shores of the Jade Sea through Turkana county. The adventure bike riders Michnus & Elsebie Olivier took the most adventurous Eastern route that was more a track and can take …
Karamoja regional tourism and hospitality stakeholders celebrate the launch of ‘Karamoja Tourism and Hospitality Association’, aimed at a community-led and sustainable tourism sector in the Karamoja sub-region of northern Uganda.
1st December 2022, Kampala Uganda – Kara-Tunga Tours received the Ekkula Pearl of Africa Tourism Awards for It’s contribution towards the development of Cultural Tourism in Uganda.
First graduates Karamoja Hiking Guide Training
The first group of Karamoja regional hiking guides have successfully completed the hiking guiding training by Bergwandelen.com in collaboration with Karamoja Tourism Academy. It was an eyeopening experience for both the participants and the facilitators, hiking the two highest mountain ranges (Mt Kadam and Mt Moroto) in Karamojaland.
We agreed to continue to build the capacity of the hiking guides in the region, seek for opportunities of exposure visits and to improve the current trail-networks and safety measures.
This opportunity was made possible through the Adventure Tourism Uganda initiative and is part of the Karamoja regional Warrior Nomad Trail initiative for tourism promotion and development.
Fundraising of hiking gear
Dutch hiking tour company Bergwandelen.com and expedition leader Jan Bakker mobilised their network to donate hiking equipment for hiking guides in Uganda. Learn more…
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