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Kampala/Gulu: Traditional African Hut Building & Painting

By @Travel-Culture
Free cancellation available
Price is RM 105 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h+
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • Feel the thrill of building, roofing and painting traditional African hut house
  • Fetch water, Get raw materials from the field and learn about local traditions
  • Experience the garden, local dishes and move around the village for interactions
  • Learn about the local traditions and languages, and hear historical stories
  • Explore Acacia mall, museum, surrounding shops & rural community comparisons
Activity location
    • Kampala
    • Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Meeting/Redemption Point
    • C6M6+563, Nizam Rd, Jinja, Uganda | Petrol station opposite the Kampala tax stage. I will be wearing a cape
    • Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Walking Tour of Kampala City: Slum community & hidden gems
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Here we take a walk through Kampala capital city suburbs to visits it’s various hidden gems.
Experience the slum community that makes up the hard working people of Kampala boosting its economy and work life! Walk the streets of this African city!

Language options: English
Price details
RM 105.48 x 1 AdultRM 105.48

Total
Price is RM 105.48
Explore Jinja City the home of the River Nile
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Jinja is the city of adventure in Africa home to the longest river in the world- the great River Nile.
Let’s take a walk around Jinja city to visit its fish markets and communities, taste the street snacks, before concluding at the source of the Nile.

Language options: English
Price details
RM 105.48 x 1 AdultRM 105.48

Total
Price is RM 105.48
Kampala: Traditional African Hut Building&Painting: Tour Gem
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

The activity can be done in Kampala , Gulu or Pakwach. Experience it all in full!

Language options: English
Price details
RM 184.59 x 1 AdultRM 184.59

Total
Price is RM 184.59

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Experience the building and painting of a traditional African hut house
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Interact with locals to gather raw materials
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Participate in local village life activities such as fetching water, gardening, and cooking
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Learn about local traditions, languages, historical stories, and totems
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Explore local markets and shops
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Enjoy authentic African dishes
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Tip (optional)

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: Wheelchair users

What you can expect

Experience the building and painting of a traditional African hut house. Move in the field interacting with locals to get the raw materials. Go to a selected setting and start the construction, painting or roofing.

Have an experience with the local dishes, eating and move around the village for interactions. Spend a day to learn how it’s really like to experience an African rural village life from fetching water, gardening to cooking with the local community.

Learn the local traditions and languages including historical stories and tortems. Move around the community to explore how markets and shops are organized for business and customer consumption. Enjoy the organic beauty of living the authentic African life.

The activity currently has three point location sites. You can decide to do it in Kampala, or Gulu or Pakwach.

In future we shall add a site in Jinja, Mbale, Hoima and Tororo soon to expand. But if you have interest and are near in these areas, no problem.

Kindly note, this description is for the main tour. However, the tour has three options for careful selection. During booking, when you click check availability and select date, kindly scroll down to see the listed different prices matching each of the three options to choose from carefully. For example the slum gem option offers you neighbourhood walk while passing almost similarly some traditional housing sites. While the African hut building option involves the actual activities engagement.

Location

Activity location
  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    • Kampala
    • Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • C6M6+563, Nizam Rd, Jinja, Uganda | Petrol station opposite the Kampala tax stage. I will be wearing a cape
    • Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • 14-18 Cooper Rd, Kampala, Uganda | It is one of the biggest malls in Kampala just near the British Council. Quick meetup for people staying the side of Ntinda and Bukoto However, if you are coming from the other or opposite end of town like Muyenga, we can meet at the Uganda Post Office next to Bank of Uganda on Kampala Road to start our tour from there. So, tour start will depend on your location position. We are still flexible no worries.
    • Kampala, Central Region, Uganda