Ruboni Community Camp

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Ruboni Community Camp is situated in the foothills at the gateway to Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Rwenzori mountains national park is located between Kibale and Queen Elizabeth National parks. The camp offers self-contained/ camping accommodation, a restaurant, guided nature/ cultural walks you can do without paying park entrance fees. The camp provides an authentic experience suitable for both low land and trekking tours.

When at Ruboni community camp you can experience stunning views of the mountains and witness the extraordinary wildlife unique to this region. You will be warmly welcomed by the Bakonzo community, which has inhabited the foothills of the “Mountains of the Moon” for over 300 years. The Rwenzoris were inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1995, with tourism becoming a prime source of revenue that has helped the Bakonzo tribe improve living standards through reinvestments in community programs.

The Ruboni Community Camp location makes the camp an ideal destination for mountaineers who are preparing for their ascent into the Rwenzoris, yet it is also an ideal place to relax and enjoy the stunning and anomalous scenery of snow-capped mountains at zero latitude. Ruboni Community Camp allows you to experience the nature and culture of the Rwenzoris as part of your lowland trips without ever having to climb the mountains.

Activities and experiences:

Restaurant and accommodation
Village walk
Forest nature walk
Hill hiking with an option of overnight camping on the top of the hills
Traditional dance
Shopping for Handicrafts

Responsible Travel

The camp is a market to local agricultural producers from whom organically grown fruit and vegetables are bought.
The local community members also have a regular income from the sale of handcrafts, a project supported by the camp.
Revenue from tourism has funded a number of community developmental initiatives including a child school sponsorship program and a tree nursery project. Seedlings are given to local families or planted in the community forest.
Funds from the dance performances are invested in small-scale animal husbandry for the performers’ families.
A range of development and conservation partnerships have been forged to benefit the entire community through schools construction, school fees payment, study trips, conservation of the forest in the buffer zone of the national park and on the households.

Highlights

Home stay initiative/concept which offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the lifestyles of the communities.
Community tourism packages with opportunities to experience and learn about traditional ways of doing things such as traditional medicine, use of traditional rudimentary tools and traditional ways of blacksmithing.
Scenic viewing of the beautiful snowy peaks of the Mountains of the Moon
Experiencing and learning about the Indigenous Knowledge of the Bakonzo tribe through the guides, who also happen to be experts on the native flora and fauna.
Nature walks through the communities looking forward to reach waterfalls that cascades down the hillside.

Directions and how to get there:

From Kasese town, drive 10km on the Kasese fort portal road and branch off left at Nkenda electrical terminal. From fort portal, branch off right at Nkenda, 8km after the Hima cement factory. Follow the road for 17km from the Nkenda junction.

To book contact:

Ruboni Community Conservation and Development Programme

P.O Box: 320 Kasese, Uganda

Phone: +256(0)774-195-859/ +256(0)752-503-445

E-mail:info@rubonicamp.com

Website: www.rubonicamp.com

Or contact:

UCOTA/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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