Dugout Canoe Paddling
Paddle a traditional wooden canoe between islands and along the lake’s terraced shoreline, at a pace set entirely by you.
Lake Bunyonyi sits deep among terraced hills in Uganda’s far southwest, its water dotted with some twenty-nine small islands. It is one of the few lakes in the country free of bilharzia and crocodiles, making it safe for swimming as well as paddling.
After the exertion of gorilla trekking in nearby Bwindi or Mgahinga, Bunyonyi offers a slower register: dugout canoes, island walks and terraced hillsides that fold down to the shoreline. It is less a destination in its own right than the wind-down every trekking itinerary needs.
Paddle a traditional wooden canoe between islands and along the lake’s terraced shoreline, at a pace set entirely by you.
Visit small islands scattered across the lake, several tied to local legend, including one used historically as a place of banishment.
Bunyonyi is free of bilharzia and crocodiles, one of the few Ugandan lakes where swimming is genuinely safe.
Walk footpaths through the steeply terraced hills that ring the lake, farmed in narrow bands down to the water’s edge.
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