Boomu Women´s Group Bandas is a community tourism project offering bandas, camping, showers and toilets. located on the road to Murchison Falls National Park, just a few hundred yards ahead of the park entrance, 8 kilometers from the Kaniyo Pabidi chimpanzee eco-tourist viewing site. The many trees, shrubs, flowers, birds and butterflies gives Boomu Women´s Group Bandas a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere. The site enjoys the best of both worlds, seclusion and accessibility.
Equipped with a crafts shop displaying crafts made by these wonderful women. We also offer food and drinks making this an ideal place for stopovers, day trips.
Our activities
- Kaniyo Pabidi chimpanzee Eco-tourist viewing site
We have close links to the guides Kaniyo Pabidi. One of the guides at Kaniyo Pabidi was the founder of our group. If you wish to visit the site, please tell us when you get here. We will tell the guides to drop by and they will arrange with you when and how you want to visit the site. - Facilities
banda_trees_filterWe have a variety of bandas, singles, doubles, twins and one larger space for accommodating groups. Some bandas have lighting from solar power and in the event of power-outages, we provide lanterns. One banda has been left as a traditional mud banda. There is a campground and campfire. We have open air showers, composting toilets and hot water can be supplied in a jerry can on request.We are located in well maintained enclosed grounds. The site is filled with many trees including fruit trees, shrubs and flowers. We therefore have many butterflies and birds including our own colony of weavers which contain both Black Headed Weavers and Vieillot’s black weaver. We are surrounded by fields and overlooked by a hill. This makes our site a tranquil place to relax, away from the tourist trail.We provide basic meals either in the traditional Ugandan style or alternatively meals of a more western style, both with meat and vegetarian. Drinks and sodas are also available. Drinks and sodas are also available. - Community Tour
cooking_filter Enjoy a scenic walk through our local village. You will see the different variety of crops that are grown and how they are processed. We will talk about the key issues that are affecting the area such as the problems resulting from an increasing population. We will show you things of local interest.
Cooking takes up a large amount of subsistence farmers’ time. We will first take you to our fields where you can help dig your dinner which we will then prepare. While we are waiting for dinner to cook we shall fetch firewood and cooking water. Dinner will be served the local way with the option of a fork! - Cooking Tour
Cooking takes up a large amount of subsistence farmers’ time. We will first take you to our fields where you can help dig your dinner which we will then prepare. While we are waiting for dinner to cook we shall fetch firewood and cooking water. Dinner will be served the local way with the option of a fork! - Staying in the village
