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Click on Shop from the uppermost top menu in order to view all items available at the Elephant Home. Add items to your shopping cart or your wishlist, in order to view the items you have added, move to the shopping cart section by selecting cart from the top menu.
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The Elephant Home offers you more than one payment option, you can make your payments using the following payment options: Direct bank transfer, Cheque, Paypal and Mobile Money.
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The Elephant Home offers you the following shipping packages:
1.Local
This is free of charge but covers areas within Kampala and Kasese only. Shipping takes 3 to 14 working days.
2.National
This comes at a cost of 10,000/= per kg and covers all areas within Uganda . Shipping takes 3 to 14 working days.
3.International
a.Free Shipping: Shipping takes 30 to 90 working days.
b.Express Shipping: Fast and efficient shipping through partnership with DHL, Fedex or UPS.
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The Elephant Center Campsite is one of a kind tourism destination that’s located amidst great tourism spots including Lake Katwe mining tour, Kyambura Gorge Chimp tracking, the Queens Pavilion, Kazinga channel boat cruise, Queen Elizabeth national park and Kasenyi game drive among others.
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When our community felt the challenges of living near the Queen Elizabeth National park, we decided to turn it into an opportunity, we Imagined a proud community and improved livelihoods in the neighborhoods of Queen Elizabeth National park resulting from the existence of Elephants that often visit us or raid our crops every other season. We decided that through tourism we would be able to earn a living and conserve nature at the same time, with minimum impact on the Elephant ecosystem and the park.
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[dt_sc_toggle_framed title=”Does the Elephant Center Campsite benefit the community?”]The Elephant Home aims at acting as a vehicle to provide the basic needs and skills that will make the community proud of tourism and the wildlife.This project is a community initiative making sustainable solutions to poverty and environment degradation through tourism.
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The Elephant Home is located in Kasese amidst great tourism spots including Lake Katwe mining tour, Kyambura Gorge Chimp tracking, the Queens Pavilion, Kazinga channel boat cruise, Queen Elizabeth national park and Kasenyi game drive among others.
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Click on ‘Book Now’ from the top uppermost menu to book your stay at the Elephant Home. For more details, visit the ‘How to book’ section.
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[dt_sc_toggle_framed title=”How do i make my booking payments?”]The Elephant Home offers you more than one payment option, you can either make your payments on arrival or through Paypal.
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[dt_sc_toggle_framed title=”Does the Elephant Center Campsite offer accommodation facilities?”]The Elephant Home avails you with two different accomodation options, you can either choose to book our self-contained rooms or experience the jungle through camping under tents.
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The Elephant Home is one of a kind tourism destination that’s located amidst great tourism spots ncluding Lake Katwe mining tour, Kyambura Gorge Chimp tracking, the Queens Pavilion, Kazinga channel boat cruise, Queen Elizabeth national park and Kasenyi game drive among others.
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When our community felt the challenges of living near the Queen Elizabeth National park, we decided to turn it into an opportunity, we Imagined a proud community and improved livelihoods in the neighborhoods of Queen Elizabeth National park resulting from the existence of Elephants that often visit us or raid our crops every other season. We decided that through tourism we would be able to earn a living and conserve nature at the same time, with minimum impact on the Elephant ecosystem and the park.
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Elephants in queen Elizabeth national park and other protected areas in Uganda have mastered their game. They know when the community crops are in yield. They always remember their traditional tracks and will make their ways to the village neighboring the park in the best time for them to find the crops. They are always looking for crops like bananas cotton, maize and others that are palatable.
On arrival, we noticed one large male elephant cross by the camp. To us, this justified the naming of the camp as “The elephant home”. Before we visited Queen Elizabeth national park, we didn’t realize that there exists an actual war between the community and the Elephants in these villages. Thank God we chose this community accommodation (The elephant home) that enriched our experience of how the communities live with the elephants. When the guide explained to us, we learnt that the elephants are smart and will always find a way to cross over every night whenever the park has no pastures or when they know the crops are in yield.
The next night, we had an early dinner after which we joined the community members of Kikorongo village to scare off the elephants from the gardens in the early ours of the night before we went back to sleep at midnight. Chasing elephants is always done in a friendly way, without harming them. During the night, you will hear all kinds of noises of the people thumbing the tins, drums and hitting the iron sheets. The noise comes from a line of spots along the road, which also acts as the boundary between the park and the community land. The noise is supplemented with burning hot chili and elephant dunk that emit a smell disliked by the elephants.
We were surprised to learn that some community members sleep on the edge of their gardens all night to protect their crops from these elephants. We visited several fire spots and besides each fire spot was a mosquito net hanging on tree branches. These farmers risk other problems such as malaria, snakes, wildlife attacks and other challenges outside a protected wildlife area. No matter what, these wise elephants still find their way to the gardens any way, said the guide. Yes, the elephants can always make secret access to the gardens and the farmers will only be surprised when they see them cross back to the park the next morning.
Now how does the community benefit from the Elephants? This is not very clear. the only possible way is for the communities to get involved in tourism. this way, the elephants will be safer and the communities can generate some income from their existence. The Elephants that come to the Elephant home, property are never chased away by the farmers since no farming is done on this 15 acre property. Sometimes they will be camped here until 8:00am. The community has secured this property for tourism and wildlife freedom on community land.
It is truly, a sad but rewarding experience you can join during your visit to queen Elizabeth national park. Book your stay at The elephant home today!!