Mama’s love Homestay in Uganda

Welcome to Mam’s homestay found in rural villages of Uganda in the Rukungiri district along the way to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The experience is worth enjoying while in our homestays and interacting with local people and cultural experiences in Uganda.

Mama’s Love Homestay offers quality and affordability. Our homestays have great-value accommodation options for short- or long-term stays, like volunteers in the community around hospitals, schools, churches, study tours, researchers, and industrial training, among others.

Our communities are hospitable and welcoming to all visitors, and they are free to interact with you and tell you more about their culture, like preparing food locally, juice making and brewing beer, cultural dances and entertainment, fishing in rivers with local means, coffee experiences, hot spring steaming, milking local cows, planting fruit trees in schools, weddings in our banana plantation, weaving and craft making, nature walks, storytelling, and campfires and barbecues every evening, among others.

What you can do around Mama’s Love Homestay during your visit

Visiting Mam’s Love Homestay will take you through a lot of cultural experiences in the community and within the homestay compound physically while learning

The following are the activities you can participate in and enjoy when you’re staying with us at Mam’s Love Homestay:

Coffee Experience

Mama’s Love Homestay coffee experience tour at a local farm in Rukungiri district. Spend the whole day with small-scale farmers near Mama’s Love. Through the coffee-making experience, you will learn how to dig, weed, and harvest organic coffee in a real farming environment.  You will get involved and learn about the process from seedlings to the drink/cup. You will be able to take part in picking, pounding, roasting, grinding, and drinking coffee. The skills and knowledge needed by farmers will bring a new appreciation to your coffee-drinking habits.   Here you take nothing but the coffee-making experience.

Local brewing of beer and making banana juice

On your visit to our Mama’s Love homestay, you may also choose to explore our local brew experience. Our local beer-making process and tasting experience in the village will help you explore more about African drinks, lifestyles and celebrations.

Our community is the only one in the area that still makes local brew from green bananas in the whole region. Our local guides will show you how local beer is processed and will giveu a chance to have a taste (optional) of this historic beer locally known as ‘tonto’.

Tree planting project (shoe tree project)

Here you participate in our mama’s love homestay project of tree planting of fruits like mangoes, oranges, and lemons, among others, around churches, schools, and hospitals and also in other communities around Rukungiri district, and now we are looking forward to expanding our initiative of going green all over Uganda.

Our goals for the Go Green project are to promote nature and conserve our environment for the generation. During this experience you will interact with the community and learn the local way of excavating pits and planting trees.

Also, our aim is to promote nutrition in young children going to school and also our use of shades during the dry season and sometimes when it’s their harvesting season. Teachers sell off these fruits to earn more income as an addition to their salaries, hence improving their economic standards.

Our project was also named the Shoe Green Project, providing shoes to each pupil and filters to schools so that we can provide clean water to schools and also motivate these young children to protect trees.

Weaving and craft making (craft walk and pottery )

This experience will take you through communities and meet some groups of women and associations who earn money from craft making and weaving after selling off their products to our local markets, and our aim is also to expand their products internationally and support conservation through full utilisation of resources.

Milking experience

Here you will first visit the farms and see how these local cows are grazed and fed on green pastures all over, and later you will visit the kraals and milking sheds to participate in the experience using physical hands.

This experience is enjoyable, and it’s worth rewarding with milking and putting on milking clothes.

Cultural dances and entertainment

In Uganda we have over 56 ethnic cultures with different cultural norms and customs and 32 different languages, but we are welcoming and hospitable to visitors. Just a small country with diverse culture.

Through this experience we shall take you to at least almost all cultures’ dances, which give you the true origin of each culture through traditional folk songs.

You will learn the use of different cultures and dancing equipment made locally with the communities, like drums, flutes, and zeorphones, among others.

Our cultural dances are named in different tribes, like the Banyore dance, known as Ekitaguriro, the Bakiga, and sometimes Ekizoni in Bakiga.

Fishing in Rivers

There are many sources of fishing in Uganda and around our local communities of Rukungiri. Through this experience ofg, you will be escorted with some fish equipment made locally using local materials like baskets and hooks, among others.

Our guides will take you through the fishing experience and take care of your safety while fishing.

We have different fish species, like mad fish and lung fish, among others, that are commonly found in our rivers, and later you will be taken to the cooking experience of fish.

Hotspring visit (mineral hotspring)

Our mama’s love homestay is near different tourist and historical sites like Minera Hot Springs, which provides an interesting and lifetime experience with different views and sceneries.

On your visit you find many people around it and within steaming in hot water while stretching their bodies and believe that this hot water can heal their bodies and some diseases.

Visit Kisizi Falls

Kisizi Falls lies along the Kyabamba River, a few kilometres from our homestay in Rukungiri, and it can be visited for a one-day tour, enjoying different activities around the falls like ziplining, community participation, visiting the hospital, and storytelling about the origin of the falls and its past history.

Getting to Mama’s Love homestay

It is located in the western part of Uganda, in Rukungiri District, Buyanja Sub County, which takes about a 6-7 hour drive on tarmac from Kampala, Uganda’s capital city.

It’s just a one-day tour to Lake Bunyonyi, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Kitagata Hot Springs, Kisizi Falls, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Mburo National Park.

We believe staying at our homestay can bring you closer not only to culture but also to wildlife and adventure activities.

Our homestay can also provide accommodation along the way to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and a simple experience of our culture while going for gorilla trekking or after gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, or any of Uganda’s wildlife safari packages can bring you to stay in our homestay and have a true definition of African culture.

Support our local communities.

At Mama’s Love Homestay, we go beyond to support our locals, like children, to develop their talents through football, handball, volleyball and netball. Any kind of support or donations to young children to develop their careers in different games is highly recommended to develop our young children while giving items like footballs, uniforms, shoes, guards, gloves, and cash sometimes to provide more support during their training to motivate them and encourage