Village Life

Village Houses

Most of the people living around Uganda Lodge are subsistence farmers. They have a very basic home, usually consisting of two or three rooms and built with locally made mud bricks and a roof of either thatched banana leaves and grass or rusting iron sheets.

If the inside rooms have been plastered [...]

Local Farming in Ntungamo

The Land

While there are a few ‘important’ people in these villages who may own quite large stretches of land, and have a herd of cows as well as matoke plantations (green bananas) , the majority struggle from day to day to make ends meet.

They are likely to have an acre or so of [...]

Uganda Lodge

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Location

Set amongst rolling hills in the south-west of Uganda our hotel/guest house is easily reached from Kampala in a few hours. Although in a rural village setting it is on the main Kabale Road, and buses coming from Kampala will drop you off at the gates. There is a small town (Ntungamo) about [...]