Safari Support Africa

Name: Safari Support Africa
Address: Rugarama Road, Kabale, UG
Telephone: +256700314221
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A network of Proffessional guides, safari car owners and mechanics across Uganda, Rwanda and Eastern Congo who , at a moment's notice, will spring into action to keep your trip from falling apart.

01/01/2024

Happy New Year from the heart of Africa! Could this be the year when we get to take you on the safari of a lifetime?

This is to dreams come true, and the best year yet!

15/10/2023

Chariots of Fiery Coffee

When we started offering morning game drive coffee on our Safaris, it opened us up to a world of wild Aromas & Flavours. On a standard 18 days best of Uganda Trip, I'll buy the Utensils from downtown Kampala, a plunger from the roaring banks of the Nile in Jinja, and the roasted coffee from Sipi Falls.

By day 18, the coffee is drunk and done, some while seated on Kidepo Valley's rocky outcrops, some at the Nile's Delta in Murchison Falls, & the rest up in the Misty Bwindi just before the Gorilla Trek. At the end of the trip, these utensils will be gifted to someone that has been a blessing to the children in my community; a resilient single mother, a Sunday school teacher or Kindergarten instructor.

This coffee journey has taken me exploring the Elgon slopes of the far East, to the wild rift valley plains of the Congo Basin, and back to the rolling hillsides of Bwindi's terraced spaces. Today, the same journey brought me to the feet of Simon Ocen, Uganda's Coffee King and proprietor of Chariot Coffees & Barrister Academy.

As I waited for my hand grinder to arrive, Simon gave me a crush course in Coffee brewing, demonstrating how best we can make coffee on the move, and what an experience! Simon’s passion for good coffee, entrepreneurship, and mentoring is palpable. He's a man on fire, a chariot coffee kind of fire, and learning from him is an experience in itself. I love this country, so much so that I divide my time between the Law and showning it off to the world. Yet, meeting people of excellence like Simon makes me love this country even more.

As we sat down to the best coffee I ever tasted, he told me about his coffee journey, from being a Journalist reporting for Uganda's leading daily, to becoming Uganda's best coffee Brewer by 2018, and it's foremost barista trainer. His Urban Coffee garden is an open restaurant, complete with open space sockets and free WiFi. It's a wonderful stop for all Kampala City Tours, and one of Uganda's most inspiring business models.

Heading back home tomorrow, I'm a man on fire. The kind of fire that bakes raw passion into building blocks for a future that changes lives. Thank you Simon for living a contagiously great life, and for building a business that challenges & changes lives. Uganda is very proud of you sir, and God speed!

14/10/2023

"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream." Bern Williams.

13/10/2023

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a bike, and that's pretty close."

12/10/2023

“There’s only one place I want to go and it’s to all the places I’ve never been.” Nikki Rowe

12/10/2023

Home

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."
Gary Snyder

11/10/2023

A roadside Encounter

As we waiting for the clients to return from the chimp trek, they came to the road & we freely enjoyed them. Their dynamic selves reminded me of a quote by Vanessa Woods

"I love chimpanzees. I love their stubbornness and their strength. I love the way they dig their fingers into life and never let it get the better of them. I love the tenderness beneath their wild tempers. I love them because they refuse to apologize for who they are."

Refuse to apologize for who you are too!

11/10/2023

Bird of Prophecy

Driving through Kibale National Park, we saw this legend of a bird; the Long-Crested Eagle. It is believed to tell young girls in which direction they will be married off, and to predict 'eternal life' or death. Incredible, right?

Well, this mistaken belief has boosted the conservation status of these birds of prey, as no one kills them much. It also helps that they don't normally eat people's chicken, prefering rats, which are regarded as garden pests. This individual was waiting on the roadside for potential roadkills.

I'm no prophet, and neither is this bird, but I look forward to a world where all children are protected and all birds are safe. Uganda is blessed with so many birds and millions of wonderful children.

10/10/2023

Sheep Justice

The African Safari is not all Safari, and one of my most recent finds for a stop-over is the Rwenzori Founders Art Centre. This place is legend, casting cultural totems in bronze, and going the extra mile on excellent art.

The other day, this sculpture caught my attention. It's a sheep's head, with a judicial wig, titled 'Sheep Justice.' The guide tells us that it's a summary of the Ugandan Justice system. It took me the rest of the trip to convince the clients that such was not completely the case.

Well, Uganda has come so far, from transplanting English Law, to a wonderful body of indeginous Laws. We have been blessed by some of Africa's bravest legal minds, the likes of Kanyeihamba & Sebutinde, and a wonderful crop of Lawyers. The 'Thief', 'Cheap' & "Sheep" brands of Justice are inevitable in a country 61 years young, but we thank God for how far we have come!

Happy Indepence Day!

10/10/2023

Of African Elephants & Grandmothers...

The world's most fascinating classroom is not at Harvard, or Yale, or even at the other wonderful Universities of the world. It is my grandmother's soot-coated smoking kitchen, across from the cooking stones, all the kids and I bare-bummed seating in the grey ash. See, when my grandmother is story-teaching, she has the memory like of an elephant. She's now blind with age, yet her mind is still razor sharp.

Elephants transmit their wealth of knowledge from generation to generation through the dominant mothers. They are able to recall the path to sources of food and water across great distances, and even the alternative routes to the same just in case. Even more impressive, they adjust their schedule to arrive just in time for the fruit they are seeking to be ripe.

Well, the encounter of these water-bound elephants on Independence day flooded my mind with those grassroom stories. Happy Independence day, to all our grandmothers. It's because of them, and their priceless wisdom that we have come so far...

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22/03/2023

“There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day." Rachel Boston

And our's was better than your's,wasn't it? Happy to be representing Wildfoot Safaris last minute, at Murchison Falls National Park. Indeed, nothing beats a beautiful sunset.

15/03/2023

Bunyonyi

My dad was born on the other side of this lake, and I was raised on this one. Yet, it still takes my breathe away every time I come down here. Today, it made for a perfect journey break on our 3 days birding tour of Echuya Forest.

It serves us well too, my colleagues & I, as we prepare to participate in Herbert Byaruhanga's Birding training at Lake Mburo & Kibale National Parks begining Monday next week. One surprise already was seeing the Northern Masked Weaver here at Lake Bunyonyi, a bird that officially is not surprised to be here, or anywhere else in Uganda. So wish us luck.

Ps. If there's a highland forest bird whose photo you'd like to see me post, please let me know.

14/03/2023

A Shoe for a Bill

The shoe-bill stork has fascinated people across civilizations, appearing in wall paintings and hieroglyphics of ancient Egyptians. It's however now classified as Vulnerable, meaning the species is at high risk of becoming extinct.

See it at Mabamba Wetland in Uganda on your next trip to Africa.

13/03/2023

Thanx Wyco

He's a great preacher, but an even better businessman. Two years ago, Wyclef Rushaju a.k.a sat me down, bought pork & encouraged me to start my own Safari Company. At the time, I was working for a number of other tour operators and I told him how the conflict of interest might get in the way. He persuaded me anyway, and I started the kind of company that assists other tour companies to serve clients better.

For his first year with Gorillas & Beyond, he says, his goal had been to make nine (9) excellent review. A few years down the road, he's at 60, most of which he has scooped up himself. Well, Wyco, I want to thank you very much for encouraging me to begin my own hustle. It took me twice as long to hit your 9, and today a 10th rave review came through, and I have you to thank for the inspiration (hopefully you still eat pork).

And friends, if you ever want to come to Bwindi, Wyco runs it's most excellent lodge, in the mid-range category. The three times i have taken my guests there, they were blown away by the service, the food and the views. Very highly recommended.

Thank you Sylivia for the excellent feedback. It was a great pleasure serving you & your husband. Your five star review has taken us to dreams come true. Glory to God!

11/03/2023

In school, I was taught that to every rule, there's an exception. & for a while, I have been wondering, what about Suzy Kassem quote;

“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”

Ladies & gentlemen, here is the exception. The consummate outlier of the Animal kingdom.

📸: Enjojo. Kazinga National Park. Uganda.

09/03/2023

What a Woman!

For this year's women's day, I want to celebrate a lady who I met & guided two years ago. Once every 10 years, every person meets someone who changes his/her life. For my turn, providence brought Kristin Taylor Ebersold my very first client at Safari Support Services Ltd. Two months after registering this faith-filled safari outfit, deep in the heart of COVID lockdowns and grounded airlines, she inquired about a Uganda trip. She was travelling solo, with a million questions and the biggest heart in the world.

While we went along, she taught me how she finds the cheapest flights online for her clients, and how to use things like Google sheets for business, and even introduced me to amazing business podcasts like 'How I built this.'

Yet, the biggest thing she taught me was 'purpose-driven adventure.' She wore a YOLO wrist-band which she left me with, as I had offered to pray for her friend who had cancer. "Every time you go somewhere amazing, or do something daring, take a picture and send it to me, for my friend," she said. And so I went Ziplining on Lake Bunyonyi, Bungee Jumping on the Nile in Jinja, and Absailing over Sipi Falls, inspired and praying that said friend would get well, and he did, for an extra year.

While on safari, she always insisted on cost-friendly lodges, in order to give luxury tips (mine helping to pay my last semester of business school). And when she left, she wrote such a good review on tripadvisor that it alone, has been responsible for more than half our clients so far. She now travels with her family to the most amazing places in the world, and her advice to members of her community has birthed YOLO Adventures, one of the best small tour companies in the world.

Friends, this is yesterday's post, today, because I didn't want it lost in the overwhelm of women's day messages. So please help me to celebrate this life-changer of a woman; the most helpful, generous, good-willed tourist I have had the honour to guide in this paradise of a destination.

08/03/2023

Another 5 stars to Celebrate!!!

Our latest review is written in moving prose, the first of it's kind, and there could not have been better feedback on a day like this. As women's day roars on, our team at Safari Support Services have more cause to celebrate. Happy women's day, from our grateful hearts.

Thank you Counsellor Eron Kiiza for your wonderful words of recommendation.

Friends, for more of our client feedback for our guiding services, check:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g673829-d23731290-Reviews-Safari_Support_Services_Limited-Kabale_Western_Region.html

07/03/2023

Atlast...

“Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams.”

Today I travelled with two amazing men, Pr Nathan David, a missionary from the US, and my superstar friend Joe. The conversations we had in the car, and at our coffee breaks were superb. I could do with this kind of travelling, everyday, all my life.

Yet, nothing beat the feeling of my kids running out of the school gate screening "daddy!" When I held them in my arms, I knew that we needed to celebrate. Celebrate what? I wasn't sure, but an impromptu picnic was born right there in that moment.

We drove up the hill, and looked for a vantage point we hadn't been to yet. There we laid a mat, and chopped our 12k worth of goodies. And then we went home, hearts brimming with love, hope & dreams. I love safaris, but this home atlast feeling is my greatest yet.

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