Rhythm & Roots A 9-Day Creative Safari

Not at all. The programme is designed around serious intent rather than professional credentials. The only requirement is that you arrive ready to work.

Four to eight participants. The listening sessions and sharing circles do not work above that number.

Instruments are not provided, but the programme works with anything portable. Traditional percussion is supplied during the music sessions. A number of past participants have found that arriving without their primary instrument was creatively liberating make of that what you will.

Most of it, yes and recording is actively encouraged. The exceptions are inside the gorilla trek, where rangers set the terms, and during Batwa sessions, where we ask permission on your behalf first and it is occasionally declined.

Fort Portal to Bwindi is six to seven hours by road along the Rwenzori foothills. It is the one genuinely long transfer in the journey, and we leave early and break it properly. If you would prefer to avoid it, we can restructure the route through Queen Elizabeth with an extra night quoted on request.

Treks cross steep, uneven forest terrain and run from thirty minutes to six hours. A moderate level of fitness is required. Porters are available at the trailhead for a small fee and are strongly recommended.

June to September and December to February offer the easiest conditions. The wet season brings extraordinary acoustic environments rain on a forest canopy is its own instrument at the cost of harder terrain.

Most nationalities require a Uganda tourist visa, obtained in advance through the Uganda e-Visa portal. A Yellow Fever vaccination certificate is mandatory for entry.