The Umubumbyi Community Experience in Nyungwe
The Umubumbyi Community experience in Nyungwe is a new remarkable community interaction with the local people living around this pristine forest in Rwanda. The indigenous local communities, also known as Umubumbyi (the potter), were living in the Nyungwe forest before, and now playing an important role in Rwandan society. Book Now
A chance to meet these communities that lived in Nyungwe forest where they depended on the forest resources for survival mainly hunting, vegetables, and fruit gathering. Of recent, the Park management and local administration resettled them from Nyungwe forest and established a village for them outside of the forest where they started living and sharing the same life as other local communities and keeping their amassing experience for pottery making, which we are now inviting you to visit and be part of their local life.
For running their daily life, they shifted their routine activities from Hunters to pottery makers where they produced different handcrafts from clay and other items used in daily life and sold them to other local communities and tourists.
As the home of Rwanda’s unique pottery makers, Nyungwe Park is one of famous in Rwanda for its stunning pottery products produced by these local indigenous communities. Visit today and participate in this remarkable skilling experience that will see you contributing the the standard of living to theUmubumbyi Community.
After your gorilla trekking in Rwanda, we recommend you to visit and explore Nyungwe for this great experience and discover more about Umubumbyi (the potter); it will be one of the few unique experiences that you will enjoy during your stay in Nyungwe.
Umubumbyi Community Experience (the potter) includes:
- Joining Umubumbyi (the potter) at the site
- Seeing how they make different handicrafts from clay
- Visitors have practice for making different handcrafts from clay
- Cooking in the pot and tasting
- When visitors make handcrafts are allowed to take it, we finish it and give it to them just in 24 hours.
