Overview
Safe, small and with a perpetually springlike climate, Uganda is a real treat when it comes to African travel. But it packs a lot in for its size. Ten national parks protect over half of the world’s mountain gorillas, along with chimpanzees, rare golden monkeys and a classic safari checklist including leopards, lions, elephants and hippos. Over 1,000 species of birds – more than 10 percent of all the world’s species – inhabit its mountains, forests, wetlands and the shores of Lake Victoria, the long-sought source of the Nile. The rugged ‘Mountains of the Moon’ include Africa’s third highest peak, complete with equatorial snow.
Culture
Ugandan Culture a haven of a diverse range of ethnic groups, No wander it’s known as a compressed Africa. The ethnic group of Bantu specking language is marked of from Lake Kyoga south wards these dominate much of east, central, and southern Africa. For the case of Uganda, Bantribes here include the Baganda, Banyoro, Batoro, Banyankole among others.
While the north part of Uganda are the tribes of Langi and the Acholi, who speak Nilotic languages and is little what related. The Iteso and Karamojong, who speak a Nilotic language, the Gishu are part of the Bantu and they live mainly on the slops of Mt Elgon. They speak lumasaba closely related to the Luhya of Kenya. A few Pygmies live isolated in the rainforests of western Uganda. Each of these tribes have got their own culture that has been preserved and passed on from generation to generation. Presently it may not be as it was back then as it was great disrupted by the colonialism but what has remained is a demonstration of what it was like back then. These is Kingdoms / Chiefdom, Cultural dance, Foods and medicinal Herbs that where passed on from generations to generation update.
