I am mazing at the fact that I actually got to tour practically free of charge and every time I get too see places. I wonder why we have not successfully made Uganda a key tourist destination around the world? Well I guess there are many reasons for that however I think we could have made some real money out of tourism even before the discovery of oil came.
Anyway one sweet day I went to Kabale, the road to Kabale has these hills with large terraces looking like gigantic stairs to heaven, winding roads climbing the hills till you see the road you came from far below. Some places flat land with expanses of ranches extending to the hills faraway with large shades moving over them as the clouds cover the sun.
The air in these places is very fresh of course! And the islands on lake bunyonyi are paradise. The lake blue and gray in a jigsaw puzzle with the hilly islands! A night on Bushara islands next to Bwama island (where the lepers used to be taken and abandoned for dead - I hear its now mostly owned by the Church of Uganda), right in the heart of the lake is so silent with the sounds of nature coming to life from time to time.
Anyway my highlight was a night canoe ride it was ecstatic only interrupted by the sounds of water and birds plus echoes of their sound in the trees, I wonder how that was happening may be
I was in imagination mode! ......... however the depth of this lake is something to send chills through ones spine.
The next day I was on the road again to the edge of Bwindi park and then Rubuguri where Nkuringo (Home of Gorillas) Cultural Centre is located, the hills and valleys in this case were extremely steep and very scary, I imagined any mistake by the driver and we would be history or statistics. Roads cut right into the slope, murrum and are really narrow some of the valleys were viewed by us as if we were in a low flying aircraft at this point we were depending entirely on the drivers brain, health, the machine and GOD!
Now if you think lake bunyonyi is beautiful then you have not seen Lake Mutanda, very still and deep too just like bunyonyi but this one looks more remote nice for honey mooning I think...... (Yah I think no experience). A very enterprising gentle man actually has a wooded resort there with a restaurant overlooking the lake and the mount Muhavura ranges about six peaks in line, the man also has a floating restaurant of course good enough for two may be four at most, on the lake they also have moving islands.
A unique thing about this place is snake tracking and an island with caves for the dead! Anyway from there I went to Kisoro - was once gain shocked to find that it was a relatively flat area at the bottom of the muhavura! Taking my more direct trip back from Kisoro, there was this interesting phenomenon, we were driving very high at one of the highest points on the Kisoro - Kabale route and we spotted a cloud at our level covering the land very far below believe me again very very scary....
So next time should I tell you about Apac?
