Mbabazi Stephen field Guide

Name: Mbabazi Stephen field Guide
Address: KABALE KISORO Road, Kabale, UG
Telephone: +256772703946
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Mbabazi Stephen field Guide Stephen is passionate about sharing the stunning landscapes of Uganda, a country once described as the “the Pearl of Africa” by Winston Churchill.

Our safaris are bespoke, private tours tailor-made to suit your personal interest, be this lion spotting in Murchison Falls National Park or photographing the stately giraffe families there, enjoying from a boat trip the panoramic Safari for All is owned and operated by Stephen Mbabazi who, with over 13 years successful experience in the tourism sector, is a highly competent and knowledgeable tour

guide and driver. Stephen will be your Safari for All guide, organising the itinerary to suit your preferences. Our safaris are bespoke, private tours tailor-made to suit your personal interest, be this lion spotting in Murchison Falls National Park or photographing the stately giraffe families there, enjoying from a boat trip the panorama of wildlife along the shoreline in Queen Elizabeth National Park or experiencing the magic of gorilla trekking in the tropical forest. Let us know how many days you have to spend in Uganda and we will create a personal itinerary. As well as traditional wildlife safaris, tell us if you have a particular interest in birds, history or photography and we would be happy to create an amazing, individualised safari holiday you will never forget!

07/07/2022

Here are some interesting facts about Red billed Hornbills, My favorite bird😘

As parents, they make sure their young have the best chance of survival. The female lays her eggs in the nest and then builds a wall across the opening to stop any unwanted visitors, leaving only a small slit through which she is fed by the male and she then feeds the chicks. The chicks start their lives in what is basically a sealed room.

Hornbills and mongoose work together when looking for food and keep an eye out for each other in order to avoid predators.

Males and females look the same but the bill of the female is usually smaller in size.
Have you seen the Lion King? Does this bird look familiar? Zazu, the king’s advisor, is a red billed hornbill. Safari For All TripAdvisor

21/02/2022

A standard gorilla tracking permit costs $700, and you can spend up to one hour observing the gorillas, while a habituation permit costs $1500, and you can spend up to 4 hours with the gorillas.

06/01/2022

Lake Bunyonyi is popular for its green and lush terraced hills that are punctuated with a plethora of over 200 bird species. The place combines the art of water birds and some migratory birds. This makes it a perfect ideal for many bird enthusiasts. A dive into the Nyombi swamp reveals a variety of assorted birds.

01/01/2022

A quality tour guide should show accurate and significant knowledge, all while providing a simple and engaging experience for guests. Guides help to add a personal touch and influence to your experience.
Here are qualities a great tour guide should possess:

•Knowledge of the Tour Area!
Your tour guide should be prepared to take you on a journey to some of the most unique places in the world. Tourists are educated during various parts of the trip by guides who know the area inside and out. Tour guides should be able to explain facts, history, landmarks, figures, local customs and more. They should also be able to answer additional tour related questions that may come up during the trip. Knowledgeable guides can help make your trip insightful and memorable.

•Ability to Communicate Effectively!
Communication is one of the strongest qualities a tour guide needs to have. They must be able to articulate and project their voices and speak clearly, to help prevent any misunderstandings from their various tourists and groups. A good tour guide also needs to know how to properly pronounce words. Someone who knows how to command the attention of multiple people at once, is a good candidate for a tour guide position. Tour guides must be approachable and have excellent interpersonal skills because they will be involved with multiple people on a daily basis.

•Strong Empathy and Understanding!
Tour guides assist people from all over the world. For this reason, it is vital to be able to communicate effectively. Tourists may come from various walks of life, age groups, cultures, nationalities, and backgrounds, or speak different languages. The ability to handle social norms and expectations is key to being an effective tour guide. The best guides are empathetic to cultural differences and prioritize making each delivery unique to their guests. Your tour guide should also have a sensitivity and understanding for accommodating those guests with special needs.

•Charismatic Personality!
Your tour guide should be entertaining, and able to engage charismatically with numerous tourists. It is a plus to have natural charisma. Each day and every tour will be unique, so tour guides must consistently find opportunities to be charming, interesting, delightful, funny and friendly. This helps groups enjoy one another, which can make the tour more appealing.

•Keen Ability to Improvise and Adapt!
Situations may change at the spur of the moment. Tour guides should be familiar with improvising and adapt to these changing situations. They should be able to tell when their audience needs for them to adapt to prevent loss of interest from the group. Your tour guide should also be able to adapt and keep up to date with changing times and constant advancements in technology and determine how they affect or enhance their tours.

•Focuses on Building Rapport!
People are excited to be embarking on once in a lifetime journeys. Tour guides can help by exhibiting patient, yet encouraging and cheerful demeanors throughout tour excursions. Guides should build rapport by encouraging effective conversations, asking questions, providing information, and demonstrating passion.

•Engaging Storyteller and Actor!
Tour guides should have a compelling zeal and passion for what they do. They do not have to be locals to be a guide in an area. They just need to have enough passion to learn the history of an area, naturally, tell the story and explain their knowledge with enthusiasm to eager guests. Tourists love learning about various fun facts and little known secrets about the area they will be touring. Guides should consistently have the ability to convey passion, act positively and tell various interactive stories.

•Flexibility
At times, tour guides will need to go with the flow. They may need to use various approaches based on the audience they will be entertaining. A flexible approach to a situation can make a good tour even better. Great tour guides are flexible when it comes to unexpected issues and schedule changes.

•Timeliness and Punctuality
Being punctual is one of the most essential characteristics your tour guide should possess because they need to have guests at designated areas at specific times. They usually follow a schedule from an itinerary with various timeframes. It is imperative that your tour guide make specific allotments for these timeframes, and help guests get to where they need to be on time. The greatest tour guides are punctual and organized.

•Eagerness to Learn and Willingness to Teach Others!
Your tour guide should be able to keep the tour group well informed. Guests should learn new things and gather new insights while they are traveling. A good guide continuously aims to facilitate ways to learn how to make each tour distinct and unique from previous tours. They care about identifying needed improvements, and studies or pays attention to what guests gain from their tours. Tour guides learn by encouraging guests to provide necessary feedback so they can use the information to enhance future tours. A good tour guide is an expert in their destinations and area attractions.

•Professionalism
Guides should maintain rapport by displaying a professional attitude at all times. Even when not working, quality guides exhibit behaviors that are representative of who they are. Professionalism helps audiences see the tour guide as a credible and reliable source. Being professional includes essential attributes such as being honest, well groomed, punctual, attentive and courteous.

•Having a good tour guide can be beneficial. Your tour guide should have the ability to guide with authority, enthusiasm and help you to have some of the most authentic, and rewarding experiences of a lifetime. Regardless of your destination, great tour guides utilize their qualities to ensure their guests have memorable tours.

24/12/2021

The safari countries of East Africa are among the only regions in the world where you can still experience life on Earth as it was before the humans took over. Many wildlife areas are truly realms apart, tangibly different from our familiar, constructed environments.

08/12/2021

Common Waterbuck
Scientific Name. Kobus ellipsiprymnus.
Species Survival Plan. Yes.
Habitat. Savannah with trees and shrub thickets in the proximity of perennial water.
Predators. Spotted hyena, lion, leopard, wild dog and crocodile.
Food. Grasses, herbs and foliage

04/12/2021

Elephants, unlike people, do use their trunks to help them drink, but they only suck the water part of the way up and then use their trunks to sq**rt the water into their mouths. The elephant's trunk is a combination of their nose and upper lip and is able to touch, grasp and smell.

03/12/2021

A 1 day gorilla tour in Uganda will cost about $970 per person if traveling with someone. A 2 days Uganda gorilla tour will cost about $1080 per person if traveling two. The 3 days gorilla tour in Uganda will cost $1350 per person if traveling with someone

27/11/2021

What are the features of cultural tourism?
Traditions, customs, religion, ceremonies, rituals, the arts, crafts, language, dress, food, architecture and landscaping are all elements of what is now broadly called “cultural tourism.” In this essay we examine hotel development of on‐site cultural tourism elements that serve both to expand opportunities for guests ...

26/11/2021

The most important functions of a travel agency are described below:
Travel Information: A retail travel agency provides necessary travel information to the general public. ...
Preparation of Itineraries: ...
Liaison with Providers of Service: ...
Ticketing: ...
Provision of Foreign Currencies: ..

23/11/2021

The Gorilla Habituation Experience gives you the chance to spend 4 hours in the company of the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Adult Gorilla photographed by the habituation team. Gorilla trekking is hard work, but the rewards are immense. First encounter after 2 hours trekking.

18/11/2021

The park is home to 76 species of mammals including four of the “Big Five”, with huge herds of buffaloes and elephants, well-camouflaged leopards and a healthy population of lions. It is also known for its giraffes; in Uganda these can only be viewed here and in Kidepo Valley.

18/11/2021

Many travelers plan 3 days in Murchison National Park to explore the park. The best way to do this is by signing up for a land safari

16/11/2021

Tour guide: job description
undertaking research and planning tours.
preparing and giving presentations.
offering sightseeing advice.
organising and leading excursions.
problem solving.
translating and interpreting.
transporting and accompanying tourists.

13/11/2021

Kidepo national park is a true gem with huge abundance in wildlife. It remains a true rendition of tourism in Uganda but remains unknown to many! Kidepo Valley National Park was gazetted into a national park in the year 1962 and currently hosts over 75 species of mammals and 470 species of birds.

08/11/2021

Some of the major sites for birding in Uganda include; Bwindi impenetrable national park, Kidepo valley national park, Murchison falls national park, Queen Elizabeth national park, Lake Mburo national park, Mgahinga gorilla national park, Semuliki national park, Mt Elgon national park, Rwenzori mountains national park ...

30/10/2021

Time of Day

The best birding is often between dawn and 11am, when birds are most active. This is particularly the case in the spring and early summer, when birds sing in the early morning.

28/10/2021

Lake Mburo national park is home to about 350 species of birds, some of the bird species in the lake include; rare shoebill, grey crowned crested crane, brown chested wattled plover, African fin foot, tabora cisticola, papyrus yellow warbler, saddle billed stork, grey snipe, white winged barber, Abyssinian ground ...

28/10/2021

This is a list of the bird species recorded in Uganda. The avifauna of Uganda included a total of 1090 confirmed species as of August 2021. Of them, one is endemic, and three have been introduced by humans.

26/10/2021

It was considered a symbol of peace, promising prosperity and love. Watching this 'halcyon' bird dart across the river reminded me of the words of Gerard Manley Hopkins when he wrote of how kingfishers "catch fire" in the bright spring sunshine

24/10/2021

There are 3 major chimp trekking destinations in Uganda: Kibale Forest National Park, Murchison Falls National Park, and Queen Elizabeth National Park. Kibale Forest is the best place for chimp trekking, as the forest has high population densities and sightings are most common here.

21/10/2021

The Pearl of Africa is the premier destination for those that seek to have a personal encounter with the Gentle Giants of the Forest. Half of the endangered Mountain Gorillas are found in Uganda. ... The Mountain Gorillas are one of the main reasons visitors everywhere come to Africa's heart, its Pearl, Uganda.

18/10/2021

Its mist-covered hillsides are blanketed by one of Uganda's oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests, which dates back over 25,000 years and contains almost 400 species of plants

16/10/2021

Kidepo Valley National Park is one of Uganda’s least visited parks, but don’t let that put you off from going on a birding tour there. The reason it’s not as popular is due of the distance it takes from the capital – but believe us, it’s well worth the journey and rightly has the name ‘The True African Wilderness’!

Renowned as ‘The True African Wilderness’ Kidepo Valley National Park, truly does live up to its name! Due to the park being tucked away in the north-east of the country it is one of Uganda’s least visited parks. However, all that means is you get to reap in all the benefits of it’s isolation! It famously has the largest herd of Buffalo in the whole of Africa, whilst also boasting 4 out 5 of the African Big 5 – Lion, Leopard, Buffalo & Elephant. Other mammal treats such as the Aardwolf, Bat-eared Fox, Cheetah and Striped Hyena are something to look forward to also. One of the best parts though, is of course, the birds. With over 450 species, which is second to only Bwindi Impenetrable National Park it holds some of Uganda’s rarest species such as the Black-breasted Barbet and Karamoja Apalis. Other species to look forward to are the Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Superb Starling, Silverbird, Crimson-rumped Waxbill among much much more.

16/10/2021

An impressive 132 individual lions are roaming through Kidepo Valley National Park. What makes this park reasonably unique (at least as far as the lions are concerned) is that the lion population is steadily increasing here compared to Uganda's other two primary lion destinations.

16/10/2021

Kidepo valley national park is an Important Birding Safaris Area in Uganda with close to 450 bird species and a dream Uganda tour destination for bird watching expeditions. A dozen out of the 50 birds of prey species in Uganda are endemic in the Karamoja region.

08/10/2021

There are 4 hyenas:
•The largest and only predator out of all of them, is the spotted hyena.

•Then the second in size is the brown hyena -- primarily a scavenger.

•After the brown is the striped hyena, also mainly a scavenger.

•Then, the smallest and harmless Aardwolf. This hyena only eats insects, mainly termites.

08/10/2021

A crocodile's tongue doesn't move. It is held in place at the roof of the mouth by a membrane.
Because crocodiles spend so much time underwater, the tongue helps keep the throat closed, protecting the animal's airway. Unlike other species, the tongue plays no part in feeding.

NB:- To many people, alligators and crocodiles look very much alike. They are two distinct species with many notable differences. While both have tongues, only the alligator can stick his out.

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Here are some interesting facts about Red billed Hornbills, My favorite bird😘 As parents, they make sure their young have the best chance of survival. The female lays her eggs in the nest and then builds a wall across the opening to stop any unwanted visitors, leaving only a small slit through which she is fed by the male and she then feeds the chicks. The chicks start their lives in what is basically a sealed room. Hornbills and mongoose work together when looking for food and keep an eye out for each other in order to avoid predators. Males and females look the same but the bill of the female is usually smaller in size. Have you seen the Lion King? Does this bird look familiar? Zazu, the king’s advisor, is a red billed hornbill. Safari For All TripAdvisor

Its mist-covered hillsides are blanketed by one of Uganda's oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests, which dates back over 25,000 years and contains almost 400 species of plants

According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), the population of Shoebill storks living in the wild is estimated to be between 5,000 and 8,000 individuals. Majority of this bird species can be found living in swamps in South Sudan, Uganda, eastern DR Congo and Zambia.

Gorilla habituation in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest takes 4 hours on an all day trek where you're given a chance to observe the mountain Gorillas in their wildlife. ... During this Gorilla Habituation Process one can be able to get as close as they can to the gorilla's despite them being Rangers, Researchers or trackers.

Uganda is a country jam-packed with breathtaking scenery, natural wonders that will amaze you. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest was named the most beautiful place in the world by CNN-Travel. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park was named the third “Must-Photograph” place in the World.18 Mar 2021

A week in Uganda is a great amount of time to fit in the highlights this beautiful country has to offer. You will venture through Kibale Forest, Queen Elizabeth National Park and finish up in the stunning Bwindi National Park for a gorilla trek.

Uganda’s small size is deceiving – not only does it contain a diverse range of landscapes, it also takes longer to travel between them than you might think, thanks to its bone-shakingly awful roads. But the scenery out the window easily makes up for this. Most of Uganda’s attractions are clustered along its western edge – in the Rift Valley – so there is a shifting backdrop of mountains and extinct volcanoes, dramatic craters, sparkling, hippo-filled lakes and dense ancient forest. Passing through towns and villages is a glimpse into daily life as Ugandans spend their days largely outdoors – carrying charcoal on their heads, babies on their backs, serving “rolex” (rolled eggs) hot off the grill, and simply hanging out.

Sipi Falls is a series of three waterfalls in Eastern Uganda in the district of Kapchorwa, northeast of Sironko and Mbale. The waterfalls lie on the edge of Mount Elgon National Park near the Kenyan border. The Sipi Falls area is the starting point for many hikes up Mt. Elgon

Swimming: Lake Bunyonyi is known as one of the few lakes in Uganda free of bilharzia (a common parasite found in southern Africa), making its waters safe for swimming.

Semuliki National Park, is located in Bwamba County, a remote part of the Bundibugyo District, in the Western Region of Uganda. It was made a national park in October 1993 and is one of Uganda's newest national parks. 219 km² of East Africa's only lowland tropical rainforest is found in the park.

The launch trip upstream from Paraa presents an astonishing display of wildlife and culminates with the memorable frontal view of the Falls. Recommended for birders is a morning cruise downstream to the Nile-Lake Albert Delta. Alternatively, a tranquil sundowner cruise offers the classic view of an equatorial sunset reflected on the river. The launch trip upstream from Paraa presents an astonishing display of wildlife and culminates with the memorable frontal view of the Falls. The launch departs at 9am and 2pm daily and takes three hours. Recommended for birders is a morning cruise downstream to the Nile-Lake Albert Delta, providing the best chance in Africa of sighting the elusive Shoebill. This four- to five-hour return voyage also takes in a variety of other wildlife, including hippos, elephants and many birds. A tranquil sundowner boat cruise at 5.30pm offers the classic view of an equatorial sunset reflected on the river.

Queen Elizabeth National park is shines as the medley of wonders and boasts of a huge wildlife biodiversity for a game reserve in Africa. The park harbors hundreds of mammals and also home to over 600 birds species. the park additionally occupies an area of 1,978 km2 making it the second largest park in Uganda. The park is famous tree climbing lions in the Ishasha sector , as well as the hosting one of the largest schools of hippos in the world. Queen Elizabeth wildlife safaris brings forth a combination of professionally crafted safaris consisting of itineraries tailored to suit different activities carried out at queen Elizabeth national park. The most common activities carried out while on queen Elizabeth wildlife safaris include game drives in the park to watch multiple wildlife species, chimpanzee trekking at Kyambura gorge and Kalinzu forest reserve, birding safaris at the park, launch cruise at Kazinga channel, site seeing, forest walks, view of the craters, river tails and many more.

The African Elephant has two confirmed species the Bush elephant Loxodonta africana and the Forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis, both of which exist in Uganda. The forest elephant is mainly found in Kibale National Park. The elephant is the largest terrestrial mammal on earth.

Most people live simple, rural lives, feeding themselves through subsistence farming. There are few opportunities to earn money. Ten million people are living in poverty, with 2/3 of them being below the age of 18.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a truly magical place that is not only one of the most important forests in Uganda, but also home to some of the last mountain gorillas on earth.

Gorilla tracking experience in Uganda and Rwanda, book your tour with us for the best. Safari to Uganda and Rwanda we organize memorable safaris, safari lodges, backpackers.

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