Visit Batwa Pygmy People Originated From Forests Southwestern Uganda; the Batwa is an extraordinary people who is originated from the forest in southwestern Uganda, northwestern Rwanda, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Batwa cultural experience is an extraordinary in villages near and around Bwindi impenetrable forest Ecuya forest reserve in Kisoro, and Mgahinga gorilla national park in southwestern Uganda.
Most of the tourists find it worthy to visits the unique indigenous Batwa after Gorilla trekking, golden monkey trekking and the Gorilla habituation in Mgahinga gorilla national park and Bwindi impenetrable forest national park. You will be able to learn how this indigenous people used to live and survive on bush meat, row fruits, wild honey and how they gathered in forest as their homes before it was gazetted as conservation areas.
Its an interesting and important opportunity to see and learn the life of these indigenous people, these people where forced out of the forest by the government after these forests are gazetted as national parks Bwindi and Mgahinga even Ecuya forest reserve in 1991 and then their rich and interesting traditions is thing of the past. The Batwa cultural experience gives you a chance to see how these indigenous people lived in forest for thousands years, also meet some of the community and then learn the challenges they now face in being in the cities, towns, even with the local people in community.
As many as tourist find it interesting Batwa when women and boys, men and girls perform their traditional beliefs such as dance, songs, the ordinally way of making fire, the old way of fetching water, demonstration how they harvest herbs for medicine and harvesting honey, hunting techniques and even the construction of dome grass hatched hut on both on ground and on trees, most of these also get how they know god by worshiping under big trees as their churches, when one died what they do very interesting.
The Batwa cultural experience is all amazing that is why the body of the government of Uganda , the Uganda wildlife Authority is in charge of these Batwa trails so that the communities and their families be benefited from the visits, its a great to know that amidst all glory and allure of mountain gorillas, the management of Uganda wildlife Authority dint forgotten the native community of the these indigenous Batwa people who has been sharing the forest with the great Apes as they look at as their brothers and sisters since these Apes are like human being 97%.
These people you could not think that they existed in the world but their satisfaction to the tourist or you people visiting them, they come out saying that they existing in that part of the world. The Batwa are commonly known as the pygmies people {the pygmy means the short height people some are calling piginis means short and small group of people}.
The Batwa are original people who live in the rainforest of Uganda , Rwanda, and democratic republic of Congo, they lived, hunting, and gathered in the rainforest of south western Uganda , north western Rwanda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the time of memorial.
The Batwa people never involved in farming, no charcoal making/ burning, their shelters are did not disturb the environment, their was no destruction of forests, they lived with the harmony of their lovely forest and trees with mountain gorillas, they left a low ecological footprint behind them.
Mirama hills safari welcomes you to visit and trek the gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable forest and in Mgahinga gorillas national parks also trek the Golden monkeys in Mgahinga gorillas as you visit Batwa pygmy people for cultural experience which is a great complement to such activities, you will get to know / learn how they a simple and harmonious way of life and the Batwa saying that A MUTWA { singular / one Batwa } he or she loves the forest has he or she loves him or her own body.