Kampala Tour
Rise early, a guide from Equatorial Wild Safaris will meet up with you at the place where you will be residing to take you for a city excursion. Firstly you will drive to Fort Lugard found in Old Kampala a place that served as a colonial administrative site for the British Protectorate of Uganda.It was built by Captain Fredrick Lugard in 1890 hence its name.This fort’s land was donated by President Idi Amin to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council.The fort is adjacent to the Old Kampala Mosque also known as The Gadaffi Mosque,a place also refered to as the Uganda National Mosque. This mosque is named after the Late Colonel Muammar Gadaffi of Libya who commissioned it and gifted it to Uganda in 2007.It is the largest mosque in East Africa and is also known for its beautiful panoramic aerial views of Kampala City.The mosque tour requires a certain level of fitness inorder to be able climb the many stairs up the tower for optimal viewing from the minaret.

NOTE: As you vist the mosque, ladies you will be required to cover yourselves up.You may carry a scarf as a covering but also scarves are provided at the entrance before you start your tour of the mosque.

After the tour of the mosque you will then transfer to Bulange, Mengo this is where Buganda’s parliament is found locally known as the “Lukiiko”. Baganda are the largest ethnic group in Uganda who reside in the central part of Uganda .  They are headed by a King locally known as the Kabaka. You will pay a visit to the Buganda parliament where you will get to see great architecture on the walls showing the different clans to which the Baganda belong. The Lukiiko is presided over by the Kabaka. From Bulange Mengo you may also get to see Amin’s torture chamber where he used to torture who ever resisted him by putting them in water and electrocuting them. From Bulange Mengo you will also get to learn of Buganda’s rich History.

To gain better knowledge of some of different religious affiliations in Uganda, you will be taken to some religious sites in Kampala for example, Namugongo Martyrs shrine where 22 people were killed at the orders of Kabaka Mwanga for refusal to denounce their Christian faith. These were later made saints and martyrs by Pope John Paul II. Many people from all walks of life regardless of nationality make pilgrimage to this place every year on June 3.

To enable you learn more about Uganda’s History and Cultural Heritage you will return back to the middle of Kampala where our next stop over will be Uganda’s ancient Museum featuring a display of Uganda's cultural heritage, and a vivid reminder of their fabled past.

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You may visit other religious sites like the Bahai temple for Bahai faith, Namirembe Cathedral for protestants, Rubaga Cathedral for Catholics if you so wish.

Lunch break will be en-route at your own convenience and cost.

After the break finally, you will head down to the city center and end your city tour with a visit to any Ugandan Crafts Market within the hub of Kampala for your souvenir shopping and if time allows you may take a walk to the nearby local market and see the hustle and bustle of the locals.

Later in the evening you shall have an amazing Cultural Experience at the Ndere Cultural Centre.

Ndere Cultural Centre is synonymous with traditional Ugandan dance, singing and food from all around the nation. Every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evening. The 700-seater Ndere Amphitheatre is packed. The stage is filled with talented traditional dancers dressed in traditional dance attire, gyrating, moving, shuffling, gesturing and stamping to the lovely tunes of the vocalists, drummers and instrument players in the back ground.

The entire cultural experience at Ndere Cultural Centre is designed to meticulously provide one with a sense of day-to day living in ancient Ugandan culture. Given the dexterity and imagery with which these dances and songs are presented, you will be wowed  and fully immersed in the experience, from the famous Mwaga  Imbalu initiation dance from Bugisu, the Amagunjju Buganda royal dance, the Ekitaguriro harvest dance from Ankole, to the Larakaraka, Acholi courtship dance, among others. Harvests, war, marriage, love, celebrations and other emotions are shown in such a way that even those who do not speak the native tongue are not excluded from the experience.

You will enjoy a sumptous dinner at the Cultural Centre as you enjoy the experience.

You will then proceed back to where you will spend the night.