“The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- He has so much to look forward to.” Richard Mullin.
With this new initiative, Gazelle Safari Company commits to contributing 2% of its annual profit to the conservation of flora and fauna and the host communities living on the boundaries of protected areas.
Located close to Kibale National Park, Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary is the home of the Great Blue Turaco. A 3-4 Hour Walk will give you some great bird sightings and breathtaking views of Rwenzori mountains also known as the “Mountains of the moon’. A stroll through the community will take you to the local schools, a soccer field, a medicine man, a local brewery where local gin is made, women weaving handcrafts, and Tinka’s homestead where you can participate in the preparation of local dishes or better still dine like a king/queen and savor the great delicacies of this land. This community is under KAFRED and BICOWA.
As a way of supporting this great community, Gazelle Safari Company takes all its clients who trek chimpanzees in Kibale to either participate in the community activities or dine at Tinka’s homestead. Most of them donate and purchase crafts.
You too can BOOK A TRIP to help us improve their livelihood.
Lake Katwe is a Saltwater Lake located North of the Mweya Peninsular in Queen Elizabeth National Park -Western Uganda. The salt miners risk their lives for meager pay to earn a livelihood. They spend long hours in the scorching sun in an environment where the evaporating saline emits an offensive smell. It is also said that the lake is toxic and detrimental to the reproductive health of both men and women who work here. To supplement their earnings, they accept tourists who can pay a small token to get a first-hand experience of this activity. Gazelle Safari Company has added this tour to all its itineraries in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Salt mining is no longer lucrative but sadly, these people don’t have much of a choice. Help us keep the children in school so that they can do better than their parents.
Iby’iwacu Cultural Village is a non-profit organization in Rwanda that showcases the country’s traditional culture. The village is in the Musanze district, also formerly known as Ruhengeri near the Volcanoes National Park.
On a visit here, you can participate in the Community Walk through the village and meet local people, watch traditional dances, learn how to make banana beer, and visit a replica of the King’s palace. Better still you can play dress up in traditional outfits and if you are feeling playful, you can have a mock traditional wedding ceremony. It is no secret that Rwanda is home to some of the best baskets in the world and right here you learn how to weave!
Iby’iwacu Cultural Village was started to help improve the lives of reformed poachers and communities around the Volcanoes National Park. It also offers visitors a chance to experience the lifestyle of a typical African village. Ask us to add it to your Rwanda Safari.
Founded in 1898, the National Botanical Gardens are found close to the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe. The 1940s sensational movie Tarzan was shot with a backdrop of the Entebbe Botanical Gardens. It boasts a wide variety of plants, herbs, indigenous forests, and birds. This is one of the best birding spots in Entebbe. It is a common sight to see herbalists picking medicinal plants here, tourists strolling the 5 km stretch of the beach, or children playing with careless abandon. Book our day tour so that you can contribute to the conservation of this well-laid- out Botanical Garden.
When the pandemic started in 2020 and tourism closed globally, tourist sites were left abandoned and one such place was the reptile village located in Katabi 2km from Entebbe. This initiative was started by Yasin Kazibwe- a reptile expert to promote the conservation of reptiles. Yasin takes care of over 40 snakes, turtles, and tortoises to mention but a few. He feeds them with proceeds from tips, donations, and entry fees. The long pandemic left the reptile village abandoned and some reptiles starved. Gazelle Safari Company through our Day Tours decided to keep supporting them with an endless supply of tourists.
In the mid-1950s, Uganda had an estimated 350 White and black Rhinos in Murchison Falls and Kidepo Valley National Park. By 1983, both species of Rhinos were officially extinct in Uganda owing to the lawlessness during the Idd Amin Regime and the increased poaching of Rhino horns which were sold on the black market in parts of Asia. With help from Rhino Fund Uganda, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary a former cattle ranch located south of the Kafu River in Nakasongola district has become the home of Rhinos in Uganda. Now it has 16+ Rhinos available for tourists to see. The long-term plan is to return them to the wilderness once the numbers grow. Gazelle Safari Company is proud to partner in this conservation journey.
Gorilla habituation is a tactic of training and taming wild gorillas to get used to the presence of human beings as they (gorillas) continue with their daily activities of feeding, playing, nursing the young ones as well and protecting the family. This is done without altering their natural behaviors. In Uganda, Gorilla habituation is only done in the Rushaga sector in the southern part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest at an altitude of 1900m above sea level.
The habituation process takes an average of 2-3 years with an intensive following of the group that is in the process of habituation no matter the weather conditions and during this period all detailed data is collected. Anything or change that happens to any individual family member is recorded attentively daily During the habituation time you will encounter gorillas that are not fully used to the co-existence of people in their natural habitat thus expect to find unrelaxed gorillas around you. This habituation process is a very important step in conservation as funds collected go back into the treatment and protection of the habitat.
Gazelle Safari Company is a woman-founded Company, so we care for the Women. In 2020, we founded Women in Hospitality Uganda to bridge the Gender gap and fight gender-based inequalities in the tourism and hospitality sector. In Uganda the biggest percentage of employees in the tourism industry are female but most of them work small jobs with little pay keeping them and their dependents in abject poverty.
Our mission is to empower, inspire, and elevate more women in the hospitality industry.
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