Lake Bunyoni

On Saturday we give the team a well deserved break and go to Lake Bunyoni, also known as the Switzerland of Africa! Bunyoni means ‘place of little birds’. It is such a beautiful area of the country. It’s also the only lake in Uganda safe enough to swim in. It’s too cold to support any life forms, such as crocodiles and hippos! (I hope! We haven’t encountered any yet!) It’s also the deepest lake in Uganda at 2600 ft!

We arrive around lunch time, have a picnic lunch on the edge of the lake and then get a boat across to an Island called Bushara. You can walk into the centre of the island and drink coffee at the little restaurant there, or you can walk around the parameter of the island and admire all the wildlife, hire a little dug out canoe and row to the neighbouring islands, you can jump off the pier and swim to a floating raft about 20 metres out, or swing off a platform into the lake! Or you can just lie on the bank and sunbathe!! It really is a little paradise!

At the end of the day we make our way back to Bunyoni, have dinner at the restaurant there and then head home as the sun sets!