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Nearby Attractions and Things to Do While Staying at Novella Hotel & Spa Lyantonde, Uganda

There are as many activities/safaris ideas as there are reasons to visit Uganda as a destination for an African safari - There are so many ways and so many different places to explore the beautiful faces of Uganda.

Responsible Tourism Company travel consultants does propose packages but to be sure that your trip fits with your expectation.

Tell us your desire and Novella Hotel & Spa Lyantonde in Lyantonde will guide you depending the longer of your stay, your budget, the places you want to visit, the kind of activities you want to do, the kind of traveler your are

Adventure & Excursions – Guided tours to nearby attractions, including Lyantonde and Igongo Cultural Centre

Below are the top 10 best day tours and activities guests visiting Mbarara town can enjoy when they book their accommodation with Novella Hotel & Spa Lyantonde.

For the more adventurous bird-watching groups, this stopover is ideal for viewing the Ugandan species. A guest’s satisfaction is our priority.

Novella Hotel & Spa Lyantonde is a classy and exceptional accommodation facility that offers a variety of activities including game viewing at Lake Mburo national park, boat rides on Lake Mburo, village walks and bird watching accompanied by professional guides.

Cultural encounters that will be an inspiring and memorable addition to your Ugandan wildlife safari. Cultural and community encounters include drumming performances and lessons, village walks, medicinal plant demonstrations, handcraft workshops and shopping, community-run accommodations and restaurants

No African safari is complete without authentic local experiences in the heart of the untamed wildernesses.

It embraces a nourishing Earth-to-plate food journey, visionary reforestation programme, community initiatives, and rich wildlife, with a fierce passion to conserve and protect the beauty of this land, and all who call it home.

Despite the fact that the present generation has failed to conserve the Chwezi tradition, coming to Novella Hotel & Spa Lyantonde will give u a chance to see the only surviving and greatly cherished Mpogo cow.

Birding watching tours in Lake Mburo National Park With 350 bird species found in Lake Mburo National Park, birding is a must do activity. The park is the smallest savannah park in Uganda but has a variety of birds that are easy to see. You have opportunities for forest birds, savannah birds and water birds on Lake Mburo. The birds in this park …

Game Drives and safari tours in Lake Mburo National Park The best times for game viewing are early morning or late afternoon when the animals are active before the heat forces them to look for shade. The game drives happen in our safari cars tailor-made for safaris with open roofs for good game viewing. There are various tracks that the Uganda wildlife authority has made for game drives which lead.

Boat Ride tours in Lake Mburo National Park Crocodiles crawling into the water, hippos dunking themselves in the lake to escape the heat at high noon, zebras, antelopes, and buffaloes coming for refreshment during the dry season are sights that await you while on a boat ride. Being up close with these animals in their habitat is one of the best experiences a …

Guided Nature Walks tours in Lake Mburo National Park The park has a bounty of tracks to tread on a nature walk provided you walk in the company of an armed Uganda Wildlife Authority guide. With the hilly terrain of Lake Mburo National Park, a walk to the hilltops to get a panoramic view of the park is one of the nature walk trails.

Fishing Trip tours in Lake Mburo National Park While the Park is called Lake Mburo National Park, Mburo is not the only lake here. There are 5 lakes in total but Lake Mburo is the largest of them all. A safari to this lake-filled national park would be incomplete without a fishing expedition or experience. Mazinga has been set aside as the designated fishing .

Horseback riding tours in Lake Mburo National Park Horseback riding safari tours in Lake Mburo national Park is one of the unique and fascinating activities offered in the national park.

Horseback riding in Lake Mburo national Park is a very ancient form of people travelling on the back of a horse. Horseback riding in Lake Mburo national park involves tourists exploring the park on horseback. You will get a chance to ride.

Cycling tours in Lake Mburo national Park Cycling is among the many safari activities that take place in Lake Mburo National Park Uganda and visitors enjoy it as they make en route stopovers.

The parks provides a number of activities that include biking, nature walk, horseback riding, bird watching, sport fishing, game drive, boat cruise and among others. Looking at cycling specifically, visitors use bicycles to explore.

Culture Experience tours in Lake Mburo national Park Uganda Community Tourism Association (UCOTA) is in partnership with Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)  which is Lake Mburo National Park in the last year and over 13 community groups have been identified around Lake Mburo National park these would be trained under the African wildlife Foundation and its partner’s program, tourism for the biodiversity.

These groups were also taken through the five module training; community-based tourism concept

Bird watching day tours in Mbarara With over 200 species of birds, the Mbarara town area is a must visit birding destination in Uganda. All tours start early in the morning from the hotel and are led by professional birding guide.

We will try to find a lot of the localized endemics (of which there are many), and we will also see pelican, gray-crested crane – Uganda national bird, saddle billed stork, marabou storks and other landbird and waterbird spectacles, plus we will enjoy fantastic forest farm birding in idyllic surroundings.

Tour the Ankole Kingdom Royal Tombs Ankole Royal Tombs site at Nkonkojeru Kakika is located 4 km from Mbarara Town centre and it contains the tombs of Ankole Kings. This is the resting place for the 25 kings of Ankole Kingdom

Visit the Rwizi River in Rwizi area – a major source of water and a tributary for several water bodies in western Uganda

Tour the breathtaking landscapes, amazing collection of plant and endless rolling green hills of Ankole

Nile Breweries Mbarara plant tour Opened in 2013, the brewery tour on foot or by van offers guests an opportunity to meet the brewers, take a behind scenes tour with numerous tastings, and learn the entire brew process from grain to glass.

Visit the local market To get a flavor of Mbarara town, head to the Mbarara Central Market or Rwebikona. This is where the locals come each morning to search out the freshest vegetables, meats and spices for lunch or dinner.

The local food market in Mbarara offers many food items ready sell such as matooke (green banana), ground nuts – gnuts, honey, fresh dairy milk, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Coca Cola Plant Tour in Mbarara Located on Mbarara-Masaka Road in Makenke in Mbarara City Industrial Area, and adjacent to the Makenke Military Barracks, this is one of the most popular factory tour in Mbarara. The Coca Cola factory in

Mbarara city opened its doors to the public in 1998 for tours and tasting. From school groups and university students to community associations and corporate guests, the Coca-Cola Plant visitors experience welcomes anyone who wants to come and explore, learn and have fun discovering the past, present and future of the world’s number one soft drink and one of the Mbarara’s leading businesses.

The plant is located 5 km from our hotel and tours runs from 1-2 hrs. Prior arrangements with the hotel to the tour the plant must be done on time (approx 5 days in advance)

Visit the Igongo Cultural Centre Located 15 km from Mbarara City on the road to Masaka – Kampala, this new cultural village is worth a look. Set on the grounds of a former palace of the royal Ankole king, this quality museum explores the peoples of southwestern Uganda, particularly the Ankole, through artifacts, a cultural village replica and a heap of info.

There’s a great bookstore with an interesting selection of Ugandan reading material. Directly across from the centre is Biharwe Eclipse Monument atop Biharwe Hill.

It was built to commemorate a victory for Ankole kingdom 500 years ago, following an eclipse that saw the invading king retreat in fear (and never return), spooked as day plunged into sudden darkness.

The Igongo Cultural Centre opens daily for visitors from 7.30am-10 pm. For entrance fees, ask our hotel reception desk for details

Visit the local Ankole longhorn cattle and exotic dairy farms during a farm tour and banana (green plantain) plantations. According to scholars, the Ankole -Watusi Longhorn cattle can survive in extremely harsh, dry conditions such as those in sub-Saharan Africa – which is becoming drier and hotter over the past decades. The medium-sized animals, with long, large-diameter horns, attract attention wherever they appear.

These animals are one of the oldest indigenous cattle breeds of Uganda and have often been referred to as “cattle of kings”. In a context where herders are strongly encouraged to keep exotic and hybrid cattle, the innovative life approach led Ugandan herders to revalue the Longhorns for their economic and cultural value.

Their keepers, the Bahima, are an ethnic pastoral group of the Ankole people who reside in an area stretching from the South West to the North East of Uganda. Guests will visit a family owned working farm practicing agricultural and community tourism.

Along the drive from your hotel in Mbarara, the countryside is very green and the traveler will enjoy the rolling hills, dotted villages, roadside open air markets, schools, grazing cows, banana plantations, maize farms, and local people going on with their daily lives.

For overnight guests homestead activities can be arranged such as Traditional cow milking lesson, and Farm chores: fence repair, weeding, herding, tick control, water cows at a local watering well and lots more while daytime visitors can schedule selected activities.

Planning your Mbarara city day trip or two-day loop, please contact us to enquire about the scheduled day trips, or if you would like us to arrange a private guided tour.

Entertainment Mbarara organizes cultural performances to celebrate Uganda heritage. During the festive season and upon guest request (for guests staying at the hotel during other seasons), we arrange evening shows of traditional Uganda song and dance performed by Mbarara famous group consisting of numerous singers, dancer and drummers.

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