Tag: Lake Mutanda /Uganda/
altitude: 1,792 m/5,879 ft
max length – width: 10 km/6 mi – 3 km/2 mi
depth: 56 m/184 ft
Lake Mutanda and Lake Mulehe north of Kisoro are a set of twin lakes in southwestern Uganda. An otter habitat, Lake Mutanda used to harbour hippos as well, however, extensive hunting made them completely disappear by the 1990s.
Mutanda boasts six bigger islands; most notorious among them is Kyangushu that used to be a burial site to avoid bringing bad luck to the mainland -– bones remain visible from the lake surface. As it is common in the Gorilla Highlands region, one of the islands, Gahiza, traditionally served as a punishment island for pregnant unmarried girls.
Our Stories:
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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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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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Gorilla Trek Ends with … Of Course!
Like so many hikers before them, East African Playgrounds volunteers felt they wanted to stay at Mutanda Island Lodge on Gahiza Island for another day… Yet their program was tight. On Sunday, following four days of trekking that would warm them up at Lake Bunyonyi then lead them from Bunyonyi to Lakes Kayumbu and Mutanda and finally to the edge…
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Second & Third Gorilla Trek Day in Images
This photo report is being sent from a tiny island on Lake Mutanda where mobile internet is patchy at best; please pardon our high compression and brevity. Over the weekend we will be in a similar situation, so allow us to complete the story on Monday. You may also like: Shattered Expectations10 Cool Accommodations in…
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Canoeing Experts Eliminate the Mzungu Corkscrew
Your holiday on Lake Bunyonyi or Lake Mutanda will be missing something if you don’t enter a canoe… Dugout canoeing is not as easy as it looks before you try it, nor as hard as it feels the first time you attempt it – watch the video tutorial above and read what one of Edirisa…
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April Fools’ Day is Over
This fictional “news item” was posted on 1 April 2016. It is a satire that touches on many topics but, above all, our preoccupation with tourists’ well-being while too many local lives are lost routinely. There is no monster, only a scary lack of swimming skills. If you want to change this, become a Gorilla…
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Ultimate Toad
We bring souvenirs from our travels; some tangible, some not. A visit to the Gorilla Highlands region is an experience powerful enough that there should be a whole bunch of interesting things stored at your homes… Would you be so kind to share them with the world, together with your special memories? Please contact us!…
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In Search of Great Stories – Press Trip 2015
Photo: Marcus Westberg “Who would have thought that a bunch of journalists and photographers could coexist in complete harmony for a whole week?” said a source close to the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip. Photo: Marcus Westberg (left), Jiro Ose (right) Nobody surely thought like that on the morning of 16 November 2015. The activity started…
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