With over 56 tribes that have unique cultural practices and values, a tourist has a reason to be excited after being exposed to the interesting practices of the tribes. Their unique traditions, songs, music vary from tribe to tribe. You can choose to visit Uganda for just a ‘cultural safari” which starts with a journey to the Northern-Eastern Uganda to visit the Ik people of Morungule and experience this small tribe with their interesting dance practices, visit the Acholi (in Northern Uganda) and enjoy their dances for example the “Laraka raka” dance and taste their traditional delicacy (Malakwang and kwon kal (millet bread).You can also visit the Alur in West Nile and relish the “Adungu”- a stringed instrument that comes in all sizes, learn how to grind and mingle millet bread, prepare medicinal plants and taste their delicacy (“Angara”).In Central Uganda, take your time to visit the Baganda and be filled with excitement as they entertain you in their traditional dances (for example Bakisimba) where men and women dance as if they have strings in their waists. Also enjoy their traditional recipe luwombo (chicken luwombo, beef luwombo, fish luwombo among others).
The South-western Uganda still has more in abundance for you. When you venture into Bwindi or Mgahinga National Parks for gorilla trekking, you will get the opportunity to encounter the Batwa-one of the exceptional people in Uganda. They were originally the people/inhabitants of the forests before being gazatted for tourism. To be able to have a full doze of their interesting practices, a tourism activity called “the Batwa trail” (within Mgahinga Park) was documented to allow tourists explore their traditional hunting skills, ancient fire making skills out of sticks and skills of harvesting honey. Don’t leave out a visit to the Ngarama Sacred Cave (the home of the Batwa King) where the women perform sorrowful songs which reflect eerily about the profundity of the Dark cave and leaves tourists with a conspicuous and heartwarming sense of the richness of their dwindling culture. If you are not able to explore the entire country, a destination in Kampala called “Ndere Cultural Center” offers you an assortment of all the traditional dances, music and costumes from all regions of Uganda.
