Buhoma Community Walk (Tourism and Culture Committee)
Buhoma Community Walk (Tourism and Culture Committee).
This was started in 2002 with the support of Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT). This is a 3-hour Buhoma Village Walk that introduces the visitor to the people and their culture living near Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Buhoma Area. One learns about.
Observing how women create handicrafts and baskets at the crafts center.
A waterfall in the middle of the farmland and visitors can also see how hard women are working in the fields tending to their crops.
In season, visitors see how tea and coffee are picked, and for tea how just the newest leaves are picked by the skilled pickers. These cool hillsides lend themselves to growing a wonderful variety of tea and for coffee how it is picked, dried, and processed to the time of drinking if possible you can test.
Stop along the Munyaga River and see women washing clothes in the traditional way by hand. One will see hundreds of multi-color butterflies; Stop in the middle of a Banana plantation where there is a local brewing demonstration using Bananas including the distilling of a local gin made from banana juice;
Traditional Healer – no, he is not a witch doctor but someone who knows what to use from the forest for ailments – you will be amazed at this informative demonstration;
Visit the local High school and Primary School and meet children and the teachers – amazing how one can learn without electricity, lights, computers – but the most amazing thing is the wonderful spirit of the children.
Last – there is a visit to the Batwa Pygmy community – the original people of the forest – those who lost their feeding homes when Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park was created – ending with traditional dancing.