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Managing Director: TUKAMUSHABA DAVIS
THE MANAGING DIRECTOR’S PROFILE.

GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS is managed by Tukamushaba Davis, a Ugandan Tourism professional and a team of other directors who help work together to run the Tour Company with the aim of providing excellent services to the clients. I have been active in the Tourism industry since the year 2000 but some of our Tour Guides have been in the service even much before that. We are based in Kampala Uganda, and do Safaris from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic republic of Congo.

In Swahili, the word “SAFARI” means “JOURNEY”. Historically, the word was synonymous with big game hunting expeditions. Today the majority of people embarking on this journey are armed with cameras, telephoto lenses and not with guns for trophy hunting. Capturing your journey in memories with pictures will be the focus on all our safaris. We will show you our commitment and passion for the continent, its people and the wildlife. That’s why GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS stand to provide you all this. If you get to Africa, you will have to love it. Because a lot is not yet discovered, that’s why on almost every safari we make we get something new. What can I tell you and leave. The best is you come and explore the land rich in wildlife, culture and get a chance to move around the country with love.

 

TUKAMUSHABA DAVIS.

Born in South Western Uganda, in a remote village of Buhoma which is the location for the Headquarters of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is well known for her rare and endangered “MOUNTAIN GORILLAS”, which is the center for Uganda’s tourism. If you make a trip to East Africa, don’t forget to include these gentle brown eyed primates, because after a few years you will ask yourself why you didn’t make it to the Mountain Gorillas and you will eventually come back the second time.

In the year 2000 when I started working in Tourism, I was still young at the age of 15 years. But because of the love and passion I had for the forest and its inhabitants, I couldn’t fail to go on and move further deep into the industry. By that time I was still a student, you can hardly imagine I hadn’t even joined secondary school so I was in my primary six. I knew very little about tourism industry, but I was much better than one who was in other big town schools because of one things. My father Mr. Medard Tumugabiirwe being one of the longest serving Ranger Guides in the park up to today 2016, he started in the year 1991 when the park was gazetted into a National park. Started with habituation and in the year 1993, the park was opened for Tourists come see the beautiful mountain Gorillas.

By then I could really love to be like him, but I had no way how I could do it because I was young and not educated and learned to some point. In other wards I couldn’t qualify for that job. I continued working in holidays as a tourist’s porter to the mountain Gorillas. I did this for a period of ten years, till in 2010 when I decided to go for guiding trainings and change from being a Tourist’s porter to a Guide. I had learned many things within that period of ten years especially in visitor handling, customer care, English speaking and writing, and information about the forest, animals in it especially mountain Gorillas, birds, the people around the park because I am among them and many other like accommodation.

When I joined Guiding, I found everything very pleasing, I said I wish I did this before. The tourists very friendly, we could share information asking about Uganda, and me asking about their countries as we continued exchanging ideas. This added me more love and passion for the Tourism industry till in the year 2011 I went at the University and took my beloved course “TRAVEL AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT” and graduated in February 2014 but before the graduation I was still studying another tourism course called TRAVEL AND TOURISM FOUNDATION (TTF) commonly known as INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA). So here when you are enquiring for your travel to Uganda, you are dealing with the right people who will do you exactly what you want. All our members of stuff have studied Tourism and most of them have IATA and we are consultants in Travel and Tourism Industry.

When I joined the University in 2011, my biggest dream was becoming a professional Tour Guide like those who used to bring tourists in Bwindi for mountain Gorillas. I achieved my dream of being a professional Tour Guide, but I found out that it wasn’t enough just being a Tour Guide, I decided to becoming a Tour Operator. In the same year I joined the campus, the same year I registered my Tour Company. I started working as well as studying and going to attend more trainings. This helped so much to attain many things in the small period of time. My fellow workmates and those in the management always tell me that I am a man of my dream because all I wanted I have achieved them and they are happy to be working with me.

After all this, my next dream was making GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS one of the first five biggest Tour Operators in Uganda, something that is already on the plate. If you need a safaris company for your travel, please I advise you go on reserve your booking with us. I don’t say this because I need business from you or talking well about our company, but because we do use professional Tour Guides, standard services, excellent vehicles for African safaris (Extended Land Cruisers, 7 seater, 5 seater, varms Vans, and other luxury cars for your luxury safari. In terms of accommodation, we use best and well-furnished lodges and hotels of which some have swimming pools even in the places you can’t believe such can happen especially in the jungles. So if we say GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS is a world class Safaris Company you know that we are telling you the truth.

I now choose to connect with like-minded people who make Africa travel part of life and business. I create teams that support each tour to share their passions in tracking, guiding, and animal behavior while I provide. I enjoy building friendships with fellow travelers and promise to inspire, educate and promote on every trip. At GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS, we believe that the most essential ingredient to any safari business is the people conducting and planning the tours.

So if your there and would like to have a Ground Tour Operator in Uganda, then we are able to do this with you. All you need is to go on our website and get our full contacts however you can get them here.

You can visit us on: www.gorillashomelandsafaris.com,

Contact us at: info@gorillashomelandsafaris.com

Or the Managing Director on: davis@gorillashomelandsafris.com

Phone: +256 772 033 448

Mobile: +256 706 106 104

Our postal office address is:

GORILLAS HOMELAND SAFARIS

P.O. BOX 24300

KAMPALA GENERAL POST OFFICE,

KAMPALA UGANDA.