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Volunteer Vacation Safaris in Uganda
Change Agents making a difference in the lives of Ugandans
A Safari is simply a journey. We invite to a different kind of Safari, a Safari that will be life changing for you and impact the lives of others.
Sara, a volunteer from San Francisco, USA12 Days in Uganda that will be with you for the rest of your life. 12 Days of working in a community with need, working amongst children building schools, homes for poor and or sanitary facilities. We can provide you a total project which can include a project such as mentioned above or simply volunteer working in a school or hospital during your stay here in Uganda. We can accommodate work teams from 1 to 50 or even more. This is perfect for groups such as from churches or civic organizations, schools or University or simply a group of common minded friends.
Below is an outline of a sample Volunteer Work Trip Safari to Uganda:
Day One: Arrive at Entebbe Airport and you will be met by our staff, we load your luggage and supplies into the vehicle and head for Kampala to the residence guest house where you will be staying for mosWelcome to Ugandat of your stay while in Uganda.
We provide you with secure lodging where you in most cases will have breakfast and dinner, have your laundry done and have a comfortable and very clean room. The staff is trained in meeting the needs of Teams and will care for all of your needs while you are in Uganda.
If you are arriving during morning or afternoon hours we will transport you to the guest house where you will be staying, settle in with some refreshments have an evening get together where we will get you acquainted with Uganda, the tasks at hand answer questions that you might have. You will also meet the Ugandan staff that will be working with you. Ability to purchase sim cards in order to make local and international calls.
Day Two: Breakfast, pack a lunch and depart for worksite where we will familiarize you with what tasks are in store for you. This can range from a building a house for a needy family who without that Working Safari for Volunteershelp who live in squalor, work in a school, medical facility or an orphanage. You will remain at worksite until 5pm when you will return to guesthouse for dinner and rest for the night with a time for team reflection and sharing impressions for that day.
Day Three: Breakfast and once again pack a lunch and depart for worksite where you will continue where you left off the day before and return back to to Guesthouse at 5 pm. After dinner a walk to a nearby restaurant for ice-cream and the purchase of items you might need at grocery store.
(If any day falls on Sunday, we will take a break from work, attend a Ugandan Church and have breakfast brunch afterwards in a Kampala Restaurant )
Day Four: Breakfast and packing of lunch and spend the day at worksite. That evening after dinner we have a group of children who dance, sing and play various Ugandan instruments perform for you. One of the highlights of your trip here to Uganda.Bujagali Falls Rafting
Day Five: Breakfast and a break from the routine for a trip to the town of Jinja, two hours from Kampala. We pass through the famous Mabira Forest and participants have a choice between “white water rafting on the Nile, which has various experiences from beginner to the dare devil, all safe, but at times it is wilder than a roller coaster ride. Lunch on an Island on the Nile for rafters.
Others that choose not to raft will visit the Source of the Nile, a baby orphanage, lunch in a restaurant overlooking the Nile and a walk around town and a visit to a local craft market.
A visit to Bujagali Falls and meeting up with the rafters and a BBQ before returning to Kampala for the evening for rest at guesthouse.
Day Six: Breakfast at the guesthouse, packing of lunch and returning to worksite. Before returning to guesthouse a stop off at local shopping center for some supplies you might need.
Day Seven: Breakfast at the guesthouse, pack lunch and off to the worksite. Return back for dinner, team reflection and rest.
Day Eight: Breakfast at the guesthouse, and a day in Kampala with visit to the Kasubi Tombs, the famous burial site of the Kabakas or Kings of the Buganda Kingdom, Martyr’s Shrine where twenty some pages to the Kabaka were executed for their refusal to renounce their Christian Faith.
We then proceed back to Kampala to Nakasero Food Market, the Taxi Parks, amazing site, then to Owino Market, one of Africa’s largest 2nd hand clothing market with hundreds of merchants, Lunch in town, visit to a craft market for souvenirs, then the National Museum with its thousands of Ugandan artifacts, Namirembe and Lubaga Cathedral and back home to guesthouse for dinner, reflection of the day and rest.
Day NiMurchison Falls Parkne: A very early Breakfast and it is a Uganda Wildlife Safari at Murchison Falls Park. We leave at 6 am and head toward Masindi and onward to Murchison Falls Park. Arrive at the lodging and have lunch overlooking the Nile. A time of rest and then it is the first game drive in the late afternoon seeing what the country gifted by nature has to offer. Lions, elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, giraffes, warthogs, baboons and much more. Afterwards it is dinner and a sleep.
Day Ten: Early Breakfast and a morning game drive viewing more animals and catching up on some that might have been on first day. A most wonderful experience for you. Then return to lodge for a break and lunch and then one of the major highlights of the safari, a boat ride on the Nile, viewing animals on shore and in the water, hippos, crocodiles, birds in abundance and more Elephants, buffaloes and of course the bottom of the famous Murchison Falls with all its majestic, raw power surging down 43 meters.
Return to the lodging and dinner rest and reflection of the day.
Day Eleven: Early breakfast and check out. A visit to the top of Murchison Falls. We then head off toGiraffes at Murchison Falls Park Kampala and stop off at Masindi for Lunch. We continue on to Kampala and reach it in late afternoon.
That Evening we have a goodbye and celebration dinner with Ugandan staff in a local restaurant.
Day 12: Depending on flight we depart for Entebbe airport for flight back home.
Twelve days in Uganda that you will never forget…above is just one of many possibilities.