Visit Dzaleka with local guides.
Plan a respectful guided visit to Dzaleka Refugee Camp. Meet residents, community groups, artists, and entrepreneurs while supporting refugee-led work.
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Choose your focus, share your group details, and get the practical guidance you need before arriving.
Simple Booking
Choose a date, group size, and focus area. The team confirms the details and helps you prepare for the visit.
Guides Who Live Here
Visit with trained resident guides who know the camp, speak multiple languages, and can answer practical questions from lived experience.
Food, Arts, and Daily Life
Build a visit around community markets, food, artists, schools, sports, or events, depending on what is available that day.
Safe, Coordinated Visits
Visits follow local guidance and camp security protocols, with clear expectations for photography, privacy, and respectful conduct.
Read Visitor Guidelines →Why Visit Dzaleka?
Meet the guides, makers, cooks, organizers, and families who keep the community moving.
Arts, Food, and Daily Life
Visit artists, performers, and creative groups connected to Tumaini Festival and year-round community work.
Resident-Led Ideas
Meet entrepreneurs and digital skills programs such as TakenoLAB, where residents build practical technology projects.
Real Conversations
Share food, ask questions, and hear directly from people who call Dzaleka home.
Direct Local Income
Tour fees help pay guides and support community-led tourism inside Dzaleka.
See Dzaleka
Watch these videos to get a glimpse of life, culture, and community in Dzaleka Refugee Camp.
A Camp With Many Communities
Dzaleka refugee camp is home to over 57,000 refugees and asylum seekers from several African nations. Originally designed for 10,000-12,000 people, the camp has grown into a busy multicultural community shaped by long-running conflicts in the region.
Each nationality brings distinct traditions, languages, cuisines, and artistic expressions, creating one of Africa's most culturally diverse communities within a single location.
Top Experiences
Discover our most popular tours and cultural experiences.
Experience the Tumaini Festival
The world's only cultural festival within a refugee camp, attracting thousands of visitors and performers from over 25 countries.
"Plan your trip around the annual festival."
Meet the Makers: Innovation Tour
Visit tech labs, fashion designers, and film teams working inside the camp.
"See how residents teach, repair, design, and build."
Cultural Food Experience
Taste Congolese, Burundian, and Rwandan food prepared by local cooks.
"Food from across the Great Lakes region."
Transparent Pricing
Choose the package that fits your group size. All proceeds support the guides and community development projects.
- Personal itinerary
- Dedicated local guide
- Flexible pace
- 1-on-1 conversation
- Interactive tour
- Experienced guide
- Family-friendly
- Shared visit
- Structured route
- Senior guide
- Good for mixed ages
- Custom focus options
- Logistics support
- Multiple guides
- Educational focus
- Q&A and debrief
Visitor Stories
Hear from people who have experienced the magic of Dzaleka firsthand.
"Warm, clear, and well organized. I left with names, places, and context I could not have found on my own."
"The booking was straightforward and the guide handled the visit with care. It felt respectful from start to finish."
"A practical way to learn from residents and support local work. The art market was the highlight for me."
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