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.
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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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