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Batwa people performing in the forest

Safari idea

Culture and community

The people as well as the animals. The Batwa, who lived in the forest before it was a park. The craft markets, where the carving happens in front of you. And a plain account of where the permit money goes, which is a question worth asking every operator.

Where the money goes

The Uganda Wildlife Authority shares a fixed portion of park revenue with surrounding communities, and a further amount from every gorilla permit goes to frontline villages.

The Batwa

Displaced from Bwindi when it became a national park. Visiting is worth doing and worth doing carefully.

The markets

Masks, bark cloth and drums, made in front of you rather than shipped in.

What it actually looks like

Batwa people performing

Told by the people it happened to.

A traveller looking at carved masks on a stall

The carvers are working while you look.

Bashem vans on a track in a park

The guides are employed, not subcontracted.

What would you want to see?

Four screens of pictures, about two minutes, and an answer before we ask you for anything.

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