Tag: Lake Bunyonyi /Uganda/
altitude: 1,962 m/6,437 ft
max length – width: 25 km/16 mi – 7 km/4 mi
depth: 44 m/144 ft
Lake Bunyonyi, the “place of many little birds” was formed 10,000 years ago when lava dammed a river, drowning an area of 61 square kilometres (24 square miles), with 29 islands protruding it.
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Our Stories:
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Valentine’s Comes Early: Love in the Wild
“You are special to me,” we like to say to our loved ones. What about proving that sweetly by surprising them with a truly special experience? Think about bonding on a remote island… On Lake Bunyonyi, quite possibly the most beautiful lake in the world… At Tom’s Homestay, a place nominated for Uganda’s Tourism Excellence…
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Building Traditions: New Year’s Eve Celebration on Habukomi Island
“How do local people celebrate New Year’s Eve?” visitors to the Gorilla Highlands often ask. Until 2007 there wasn’t much to say. The drumming that traditionally announces Christmas would get repeated to some degree, and that would be all. But now that we have awaited a new year on Habukomi Island ten years in a…
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Masozera Something in Between
Never had I thought there would come a time in my life when I would want to explore myself. Conquer my fears…. Walk.
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Missing Hippos
Out of the blue, three hippos appeared. They became the talk of Lake Bunyonyi, the lake so casually described as super-safe for swimming, with no bilharzia (more about that here), no crocodiles … and no hippos. Well, in 2013 they were very much there. For several days, until locals got tired of hippos eating their…
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GH Bootcamp: From Bunyonyi with Love
Envisaged to inform and inspire the Gorilla Highlands team in Kigali, it has grown into something bigger.
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Our Grandest Trek in 28 Photos
As an introduction to the upcoming Gorilla Highlands Bootcamp we’ve pulled something attractive from our archives. This is how our global team hiked in June two years ago — through the Ugandan part of the Gorilla Highlands from Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. The 20 trek participants came from Africa, America…
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Bootcamp Invite: Get Your Hands Dirty, or Join Online
The Bootcamp is intended to prepare and motivate the people expected to take our initiative to the next level.
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“I Liked It before I Hit the Tree”
Hello my public! This is I Enya again 👏👏. What’s up? Last week I wrote about police in Kampala but now I’m taking you back to Lake Bunyonyi, if that is OK with you? Your opinion matters the most to me! Yes or no? … You are all saying yes! Yay! Before I tell you…
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Would You Trust a Traditional Healer?
Meg Whelan’s (she’s pictured in the centre) familiarisation trip was coming to an end. In just a couple of days she had flown all over Uganda, experienced three national parks—Kidepo Valley, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi Impenetrable—and seen a lot that would help her at Connoisseur Travel. There was something nasty growing on her neck and…
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