The spectacular Elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda. More information can be found Uganda Game Safaris Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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The spectacular Elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda. More information can be found Uganda Game Safaris 
Road Distances in Uganda
Main roads are generally good but travel is much slower than on European roads. Secondary roads are of variable standard, often slow and bumpy; some require high four-wheel drive vehicles. Light aircraft can also be chartered to the main destinations. Traffic drives on the left side in Uganda; in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi traffic drives on the right. The vehicle and driver are usually used between morning and 6.00pm. Vehicle and driver should not be used beyond 21.00pm of any day in Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and Burundi and upcountry places, vehicle should not work beyond 19h00. In Congo and Burundi, vehicle and driver should not work beyond 18.00pm
Gorilla Tracking in Uganda
Gorilla tracking and permits To track gorillas each person must have the day’s gorilla permit which needs to be arranged and paid for in advance. Each gorilla park (Bwindi and Mgahinga in Uganda and Parc National des Volcans [PNV] in Rwanda) has different numbers of permits per day (18, 6 and 32 for Bwindi, Mgahinga and PNV respectively). No person is allowed to track more than three times in three consecutive days. Permits are non-refundable except for medical reasons and a medical certificate has to be provided. To protect gorillas from disease and to avoid problems of arduous conditions in the forests young trackers below the age of 15 and those with illnesses are not allowed to track. Flash photography is not allowed and visitors are advised to use still cameras, at a distance of at least 5 metres away from the animals. Professional filming requires extra fees to be paid. Tracking through the thick jungle, traversing canopies of thick undergrowth can be tough, arduous and wet – the tracking can last from as little as 45 minutes to as much as 9 hours. Trackers therefore need to be well equipped with food and water, strong water-proof clothing and must be fit and healthy. Strong, light clothes could be carried, as well as rain jackets, a torch, sunglasses, a sun hat, gloves to grip vegetation, socks. Use jungle boots, long-sleeved shirt. A walking stick may be needed. Porters can be hired to carry equipment for all trackers (fees range between $5-20 per porter per day). Part of the fees paid to the park authorities goes directly to help local communities around the Protected Area(s).
Friday, October 2, 2009
PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF HERITAGE ROOTS, A COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION (CBO)
Introduction
The heritage club will be established mainly for the restoration and preservation of the national cultural and natural heritage through different activities or the working areas. It will be established and run by the young people with the help of the group of resourceful persons.
Mission
Restoration and preservation of our heritage among the communities for personal and national sustainable development.
Vision
Having a rich national heritage and local communities with the respect of one another’s culture for the cultured generations.
Objectives
To identify and restore the areas and objects of our national heritage
To promote awareness among the communities of the importance of heritage (sites and objects)
To enable people to become aware of the present-day and future threats facing our world heritage
To encourage the communities to get involved in the conservation on a local, regional and national levels
To restore and improve the peoples’ skills, potentials and their indigenous knowledge.
To promote tourism in Ntungamo District based on heritage resources
ACTIVITIES
As the part of heritage, the club will be focusing on the issues concerning;
· Natural heritage, concerning natural resources, (not man-made), places, objects and intangible attributes including the countryside and natural environment, including flora and fauna and landscape like the rock shelters
· Tradition regarding the beliefs or customs and practices inherited from ancestors
· Oral tradition for example, of folktales, sayings, songs, or chants that regards the ways how a society transmits its oral history, oral literature, oral law and other forms of knowledge across generations without any form of writing system like the method of counting among the Banyankole.
· Industrial Heritage involving the monuments from the industrial culture, the buildings and artifacts of industry which are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and reserved for the benefit of future generations. This includes industries like salt mining, smelting and stone works and other industries that involved the works of art.
The club will have a wide range of activities/ working areas which will include;
Heritage education
The club will make sure that the communities are well versed with the world heritage and the different laws governing the conservation and preservation of heritage
The club will also have different community outreach programs on the education about the importance of the heritage both at the local, regional and national levels.
Organization of the workshops, seminars, and use of the media like radio and television talk shows.
Staging of the plays and traditional songs, recitations using the traditional instruments within the communities
Research and monitoring
This will involve the identification of the heritage sites like cultural sites, caves of spiritual importance and objects like the ones used in dances, ways of lives and during the social gatherings
The club will take the responsibility of educating the communities on the values of the heritage in form of places and objects
Monitoring the changes on the sites and objects in relation to the human activities and increasing population.
Collection and documentation
The club will be collecting and preserving the heritage materials in form of traditional objects and other forms of art and sculpture which are facing extinction due to modern technology
Other information will be collected and preserved as archives like the traditional music, recitations. The information about the heritage material (places and objects) will also be kept and preserved by the club. This will be inform of tape recordings, videos, statistics and other important information like the traditional names of the objects and their importance
Information dissemination
The collected information will be availed to the communities in form of leaflets, newsletter, magazines and brochures
The objects collected will be put on the displays for the community for appreciation in the information or resource centre.
Events organization
As a means to encourage the communities to participate in the restoration and preservation of the national heritage, the club will be organizing different events which will benefit the communities like;
Competitions where the people will compete in different traditional activities and events like games (board games, wrestling, goat fighting etc...), cooking of the traditional foods, dances and drama among others.
Staging the plays and drama and traditional music by the members to the public for the appreciation of their cultures
Organization of the exhibitions and fairs where the people will exhibit their skills in the form of objects which are made like the hand crafts which are made with the natural and traditional materials and indigenous knowledge (IK). These will include foods, drinks, traditional ways of lives, traditional architecture, traditional music instruments, traditional tools, wood carvings, basketry, pottery, art and sculpture among others. The literature will also be exhibited like the books about the local cultures and communities and dictionaries of the local languages. Pictorial exhibition will also involve those of the places of cultural and traditional importance.
Tourism development
This will involve both farm tourism and cultural tourism in the district.
The tours will also be organised for the tourists and other interested persons to the different heritage sites and to the communities
Farm tours will be organized for people to the farms to learn the traditional methods of farming used in the district, preparation of the local or banana beer, as well as gastronomic tourism.
More production will be encouraged to sell to the tourists like souvenirs food products
Skills development
The club will be involved in making the objects with the use of the local materials like traditional weapons (spears and arrows), handcrafts (baskets, pots, wood carvings) among others.
These skills will also be extended to the communities and schools to practice them as the part of their handwork.
The heritage club will be established mainly for the restoration and preservation of the national cultural and natural heritage through different activities or the working areas. It will be established and run by the young people with the help of the group of resourceful persons.
Mission
Restoration and preservation of our heritage among the communities for personal and national sustainable development.
Vision
Having a rich national heritage and local communities with the respect of one another’s culture for the cultured generations.
Objectives
To identify and restore the areas and objects of our national heritage
To promote awareness among the communities of the importance of heritage (sites and objects)
To enable people to become aware of the present-day and future threats facing our world heritage
To encourage the communities to get involved in the conservation on a local, regional and national levels
To restore and improve the peoples’ skills, potentials and their indigenous knowledge.
To promote tourism in Ntungamo District based on heritage resources
ACTIVITIES
As the part of heritage, the club will be focusing on the issues concerning;
· Natural heritage, concerning natural resources, (not man-made), places, objects and intangible attributes including the countryside and natural environment, including flora and fauna and landscape like the rock shelters
· Tradition regarding the beliefs or customs and practices inherited from ancestors
· Oral tradition for example, of folktales, sayings, songs, or chants that regards the ways how a society transmits its oral history, oral literature, oral law and other forms of knowledge across generations without any form of writing system like the method of counting among the Banyankole.
· Industrial Heritage involving the monuments from the industrial culture, the buildings and artifacts of industry which are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and reserved for the benefit of future generations. This includes industries like salt mining, smelting and stone works and other industries that involved the works of art.
The club will have a wide range of activities/ working areas which will include;
Heritage education
The club will make sure that the communities are well versed with the world heritage and the different laws governing the conservation and preservation of heritage
The club will also have different community outreach programs on the education about the importance of the heritage both at the local, regional and national levels.
Organization of the workshops, seminars, and use of the media like radio and television talk shows.
Staging of the plays and traditional songs, recitations using the traditional instruments within the communities
Research and monitoring
This will involve the identification of the heritage sites like cultural sites, caves of spiritual importance and objects like the ones used in dances, ways of lives and during the social gatherings
The club will take the responsibility of educating the communities on the values of the heritage in form of places and objects
Monitoring the changes on the sites and objects in relation to the human activities and increasing population.
Collection and documentation
The club will be collecting and preserving the heritage materials in form of traditional objects and other forms of art and sculpture which are facing extinction due to modern technology
Other information will be collected and preserved as archives like the traditional music, recitations. The information about the heritage material (places and objects) will also be kept and preserved by the club. This will be inform of tape recordings, videos, statistics and other important information like the traditional names of the objects and their importance
Information dissemination
The collected information will be availed to the communities in form of leaflets, newsletter, magazines and brochures
The objects collected will be put on the displays for the community for appreciation in the information or resource centre.
Events organization
As a means to encourage the communities to participate in the restoration and preservation of the national heritage, the club will be organizing different events which will benefit the communities like;
Competitions where the people will compete in different traditional activities and events like games (board games, wrestling, goat fighting etc...), cooking of the traditional foods, dances and drama among others.
Staging the plays and drama and traditional music by the members to the public for the appreciation of their cultures
Organization of the exhibitions and fairs where the people will exhibit their skills in the form of objects which are made like the hand crafts which are made with the natural and traditional materials and indigenous knowledge (IK). These will include foods, drinks, traditional ways of lives, traditional architecture, traditional music instruments, traditional tools, wood carvings, basketry, pottery, art and sculpture among others. The literature will also be exhibited like the books about the local cultures and communities and dictionaries of the local languages. Pictorial exhibition will also involve those of the places of cultural and traditional importance.
Tourism development
This will involve both farm tourism and cultural tourism in the district.
The tours will also be organised for the tourists and other interested persons to the different heritage sites and to the communities
Farm tours will be organized for people to the farms to learn the traditional methods of farming used in the district, preparation of the local or banana beer, as well as gastronomic tourism.
More production will be encouraged to sell to the tourists like souvenirs food products
Skills development
The club will be involved in making the objects with the use of the local materials like traditional weapons (spears and arrows), handcrafts (baskets, pots, wood carvings) among others.
These skills will also be extended to the communities and schools to practice them as the part of their handwork.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Rules for Buying Gifts for Men
HAVE FUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rule #1:If you are really, really broke, buy him anything for his car. A 99-cent ice scraper, a small bottle of de-icer or something to hang from his rear view mirror. Men love gifts for their cars. No one knows why.
Rule #2:If you cannot afford a cordless drill, buy him anything with the word ratchet or socket in it. Men love saying those two words. "Hey George, can I borrow your ratchet?" "OK. By-the-way, are you through with my 3/8-inch socket yet?" No one knows why.
Rule #3:When in doubt - buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. Again, no one knows why.
Rule #4:Do not buy men socks. Do not buy men ties. And never buy men bathrobes. I was told that if God had wanted men to wear bathrobes, he wouldn't have invented Jockey shorts.
Rule #5:You can buy men new remote controls to replace the ones they have worn out. If you have a lot of money buy your man a big-screen TV with the little picture in the corner. Watch him go wild as he flips, and flips, and flips.
Rule #6:Do not buy a man any of those fancy liqueurs. If you do, it will sit in a cupboard for 23 years. Real men drink whiskey or beer.
Rule #7:Do not buy any man industrial-sized canisters of after shave or deodorant. I'm told they do not stink - they are earthy.
Rule #8:Buy men label makers. Almost as good as cordless drills. Within a couple of weeks there will be labels absolutely everywhere. "Socks. Shorts. Cups. Saucers. Door. Lock. Sink." You get the idea. No one knows why.
Rule #9:Never buy a man anything that says "some assembly required" on the box. It will ruin his Special Day and he will always have parts left over.
Rule #10:Good places to shop for men include Northwest Iron Works, Parr Lumber, Home Depot, John Deere, Valley RV Center, and Les Schwab Tire. (NAPA Auto Parts and Sears' Clearance Centers are also excellent men's stores. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know what it is. "From NAPA Auto,eh? Must be something I need. Hey! Isn't this a starter for a '68 Ford Fairlane? Wow! Thanks."
Rule #11:Men enjoy danger. That's why they never cook - but they will barbecue. Get him a monster barbecue with a 100-pound propane tank. Tell him the gas line leaks. "Oh the thrill! The challenge! Who wants a hamburger?"
Rule #12:Tickets to a Patriots game are a smart gift. However, he will not appreciate tickets to "A Retrospective of 19th Century Quilts." Everyone knows why.
Rule #13:Men love chainsaws. Never, ever, buy a man you love a chainsaw. If you don't know why - please refer to Rule #8 and what happens when he gets a label maker.
Rule #14:It's hard to beat a really good wheelbarrow or an aluminum extension ladder. Never buy a real man a step ladder. It must be an extension ladder. No one knows why.
Rule #15:Rope. Men love rope. It takes us back to our cowboy origins, or at least The Boy Scouts. Nothing says love like a hundred feet of 3/8" manilla rope. No one knows why.
Rule #1:If you are really, really broke, buy him anything for his car. A 99-cent ice scraper, a small bottle of de-icer or something to hang from his rear view mirror. Men love gifts for their cars. No one knows why.
Rule #2:If you cannot afford a cordless drill, buy him anything with the word ratchet or socket in it. Men love saying those two words. "Hey George, can I borrow your ratchet?" "OK. By-the-way, are you through with my 3/8-inch socket yet?" No one knows why.
Rule #3:When in doubt - buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. Again, no one knows why.
Rule #4:Do not buy men socks. Do not buy men ties. And never buy men bathrobes. I was told that if God had wanted men to wear bathrobes, he wouldn't have invented Jockey shorts.
Rule #5:You can buy men new remote controls to replace the ones they have worn out. If you have a lot of money buy your man a big-screen TV with the little picture in the corner. Watch him go wild as he flips, and flips, and flips.
Rule #6:Do not buy a man any of those fancy liqueurs. If you do, it will sit in a cupboard for 23 years. Real men drink whiskey or beer.
Rule #7:Do not buy any man industrial-sized canisters of after shave or deodorant. I'm told they do not stink - they are earthy.
Rule #8:Buy men label makers. Almost as good as cordless drills. Within a couple of weeks there will be labels absolutely everywhere. "Socks. Shorts. Cups. Saucers. Door. Lock. Sink." You get the idea. No one knows why.
Rule #9:Never buy a man anything that says "some assembly required" on the box. It will ruin his Special Day and he will always have parts left over.
Rule #10:Good places to shop for men include Northwest Iron Works, Parr Lumber, Home Depot, John Deere, Valley RV Center, and Les Schwab Tire. (NAPA Auto Parts and Sears' Clearance Centers are also excellent men's stores. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know what it is. "From NAPA Auto,eh? Must be something I need. Hey! Isn't this a starter for a '68 Ford Fairlane? Wow! Thanks."
Rule #11:Men enjoy danger. That's why they never cook - but they will barbecue. Get him a monster barbecue with a 100-pound propane tank. Tell him the gas line leaks. "Oh the thrill! The challenge! Who wants a hamburger?"
Rule #12:Tickets to a Patriots game are a smart gift. However, he will not appreciate tickets to "A Retrospective of 19th Century Quilts." Everyone knows why.
Rule #13:Men love chainsaws. Never, ever, buy a man you love a chainsaw. If you don't know why - please refer to Rule #8 and what happens when he gets a label maker.
Rule #14:It's hard to beat a really good wheelbarrow or an aluminum extension ladder. Never buy a real man a step ladder. It must be an extension ladder. No one knows why.
Rule #15:Rope. Men love rope. It takes us back to our cowboy origins, or at least The Boy Scouts. Nothing says love like a hundred feet of 3/8" manilla rope. No one knows why.
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