• Enjoying nature at E-villas Residences:

Services; The activities offered at E-villas Residences include: cycling/jogging; forest walks; sports like football, volley ball, basketball; traditionally prepared meals; charcoal grills to match client needs; facilitated discussion of business/investment ideas, family/social issues; camp fire and bird watching.

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• The Coffee Experience:

Services;  Nabisere Hotel will expose you to a coffee experience from coffee nursery; coffee planting; coffee management; coffee harvesting; coffee pulping, coffee roasting, coffee pounding using a local motor and coffee cup tasting.

One of the options is Miti Farmers Group where the farmers around MITI village organised themselves into a group to share best farming practice and improve their bargaining power with ‘middlemen’ by selling their produce collectively.

The group now offer a chance for tourists to visit the farm to see coffee production from the plant to the cup. Visit the Mr Kasekende’s coffee seedling nursery and gardens and, in the harvesting season, pick the ripe cherries from the trees. Then see how the coffee is dried and packed for wholesale.

Afterwards, join the local ladies roasting and pounding the coffee and chat with them as you drink a cup. As you leave they will give you a souvenir bag of roasted coffee to take home with you. Finally, should you wish to, you can visit the local coffee processing factory on your way back to the hotel. Please bring walking boots or strong trainers.

Nabisere hotel and FADSI (a local Community based organisation) have teamed up to help local people establish services for tourists. We work with FADSI members to offer business advice and training for example in hygienic production methods or customer care so they can offer quality products and services. We would be very pleased to help you plan a visit to see any of these activities during your stay with us; just contact us.

Kalisizo is a poor rural community but our aim is to encourage a self-help approach amongst local people so these tourism activities have been established as sustainable business initiatives not charity projects. All profits go to group members. However, if you wish to make a charitable donation during your visit to Kalisizo, we would welcome support for FADSI or the children of Little Flowers Primary school (appropriate items might include footballs and netballs, classroom materials [coloured pencils, scissors, glue etc], story books, musical instruments and toys. These can all be bought in Kampala if you do not wish to carry them from home).

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• Back cloth marking process Experience:

Services; Bark cloth is a stiff, rust coloured cloth made from the bark of the Ficus tree.

Traditionally it has been used for clothing (particularly ceremonial) and to line coffins but these days it has a wider variety of uses especially in the craft industry for making beautiful items like bags, cushion covers and wall hangings. You will see how the bark is removed from the tree and the tree protected so the bark re-grows. Group members will then show you how it is processed and you will be invited to participate at certain stages of production.

Nabisere will arranges activities where you can participate in: ficus tree planting, watch the process of the bark being removed from the tree and turned into a cloth for traditional and ceremonial uses and modern crafts, see different crafts made from bark cloth

Throughout your visit you will meet the very friendly group members and can talk to them about their lives in Kalisizo. Bark cloth items will be on sale during your visit or back at the hotel gift shop.

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• Organic farming experience :

Services;   Where you will: learn bee rearing/ apiary and see how honey is obtained, the plants and their traditional and medicinal uses and taste a variety of fruits.

One of the options is Mr Mayanja’s organic farm and medicinal plant tour. The secret to Mr Mayanja’s long life may well be his hard work and love of good food! He will take you on a tour of his gardens, natural forest and swamp to see what he grows (including strawberries – a rare treat in Uganda!) and to show you his organic methods. You will also find out about the medicinal plants used in traditional medicine, how they are prepared and what ailments they can treat.

Mr Mayanja will then welcome you to what we fondly call the House of Plenty where he will fill you full of wonderful foods fresh from the gardens. Over lunch you will meet some family, friends or neighbours and possibly also hear about their support group for the elderly VACO. 
Please bring walking boots or strong trainers.

You will find some of Mr Mayanja’s delicious products on sale in the Nabisere hotel gift shop.

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• A trip to Rakai :

Services;  Nabisere Hotel can arrange for you a trip to Rakai where you can visit the Kamuswaga Royal Palace, swim at the Kooki Royal Gardens and relax at Lake Kijjanebarora beach.

 

Click this link for a downloadable PDF file on Tourism in Rakai District when you stay at Nabisere Hotel and Community Tourism Itinerary.

Activities include: Click on an image/link to explore one of the many activities to do whilst with us.