Mouthwatering Blend of Batwa Culture and Bakiga Hospitality (Coming Soon)
We are making significant headway towards launching responsible Batwa “Pygmy” boat trips on Lake Bunyonyi! What we initiated in August is now on track to…
Lake Bunyonyi /Uganda/
altitude: 1,962 m/6,437 ft
max length – width: 25 km/16 mi – 7 km/4 mi
depth: 44 m/144 ft
Lake Bunyonyi, located close to the town of Kabale in southwestern Uganda, was formed 10,000 years ago when a river was dammed by lava. This place of many little birds is one of the safest lakes in Africa and has a great number of small islands: 29.
Until the 1940s, unmarried pregnant women were left at Akampene (Punishment Island) to starve to death or drown trying to swim to the shore — they were often saved by poor men or slaves who could not afford the regular bride price. That practice, common in the Gorilla Highlands region, stopped after a missionary doctor Dr. Leonard Sharp founded a leprosy hospital on Bwama Island. Once anti-leprosy drugs were introduced in the 1980s, it became a boarding secondary school.
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