Tinka’s Homestead and traditional meals

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Not far down the road from Kibale National Park is Tinka’s, a local eatery where visitors alike can enjoy an interpretive traditional lunch or dinner where international visitors could interact on all levels with the local people. During your visit to Uganda or Kibale Forest National Park, Tinkas homestead gives you an opportunity to get firsthand experience by staying in a traditional Mutoro home in the neighborhoods of Kibale Forest National Park. The beds are standard sizes and beddings kept fresh and clean. The rooms are also equipped with a mosquito net.

During your stay, we guarantee that your experience is no longer limited to seeing since you have an opportunity of doing all or any of the following: food harvesting; food preparation, sharing all meals, storytelling, music & dance, sleep under the same roof so that you have not only visited Uganda but you have become a Ugandan for as long as you have stayed with us.

The family members will take you around the community as well as link you to the guide that will lead you through the Magombe sanctuary that holds up to 8 primate species, over 200 bird species and other mammals and plants life. It is also possible to stop for means in case you are passing by or you have booked any other accommodation.

Where ever you are travelling; the local food always plays an important part. It’s no different in Uganda, where the fertile soils produce some of the most tasty, fresh, amazing fruit and vegetables in the world. Our food is organically produced, freshly harvested and prepared. Meals are served under authentic traditional grass-thatched structures. It’s a variety of foods, including, herbal tea, fruits and vegetables.

Activities and experiences:

Food and drinks
Accommodation
Village walk
Magombe swamp walk
Shopping for Handicrafts

Responsible travel:

Proceeds from home-stays and traditional meals support the participating families and the families that provide locally produced organic foods etc.

Highlights

Getting as involved with the daily chores of grain milling, manioc pounding, fruit collecting as you wish
Bonding and laughing with the entire family during the time you spend as you see the different way of doing things.
The wonderful meals in a kitchen that was little more than a piece of reed matting on the baked earth.
Listening first hand to the local stories like; I spent time with the two youngest sons who escorted me around the village, filling me in on all the local gossip: who had which magic talismans and where they hid them when the priest came calling, what rituals were necessary before a man could sleep with his friend’s wife (it involved smearing blood from both men on a coffee bean and chewing it), and the secrets to how a teenager living in a one-room shack could manage to sneak out to all-night parties without letting their parents know.
After dinner each evening, join the family gathered around the fire to sing and dance until late in the night.”

How to get there:

Tinkas Homestay is located about 40km from Fort Portal on Kamwenge road. Drive past the national park on the side of Bigodi trading center.

Contact us to book:

Contact: tinkabigodi@gmail.com

+256 (0)772-468-113

Or contact:

UCOTA and pearls of Uganda

Phone: +256(0)414-501-866/ +256(0)772-657-700

E-mail:info@pearlsofuganda.org

Website: www.pearlsofuganda.org

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