Smaller Twins Are Handsome Too
Three pretty sets of twin lakes can be found nestled on both sides of the Rwanda-Uganda border, and we usually spin tales about the bigger…
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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