The most perfect place

Lake Bunyonyi

I have been here a month now and realised it was time to explore a bit more of the country and recharge my batteries.  With had a four day week end due to further elections and International Womens Day (why do we not celebrate this in the UK?, another blog entry I think)

It is always a challenge to move from A to B and so we waited for almost two hours outside the lodge for a bus, the hitched a lift to Ntungamo and waited more than an hour again, but eventually we were off.  We arrived in Kabale and treated ourselves to coffee and cake, sitting on a breezy balcony, feeling very civilised.  Then came the scary bit; the boda boda ride down to the lake.  It is many years since I have been on the back of a motor bike, and it wasn’t a happy experience then, I like to be in charge of the steering and more importantly the breaks.  We negotiated a rate and thought it would be one bike each, but no it was both of us on the back of the same bike.  Actually I felt much better about this as it had to go a lot slower with the weight.  In fact it was a great journey, a long way up hill slowly and then a long way free wheeling to the lake.  I have to admit that my legs were still a little wobbly when we dismounted and my thighs are still in spasm.

The next part of the journey challenged the upper body coordination, a dug out canoe to paddle 2km up the lake to out island retreat.  Worth every paddle stroke.

Byoona Amagara Island Retreat is run as a not for profit ecofriendly retreat.  It has amazing open fronted goedomes to sleep in as well as the cheaper bunk house accommodation we were staying in.  It uses solar power and so there are no generators and it is sooo quiet.  Lake Bunyonyi me and the lake of hundreds of small birds.  And it is certainly true, the come in all colours, pink, blue, green, orange, black white and any mixture of all, including of course the LBJ.  The beauty and tranquillity of the area is more than I can describe so I will let the pictures speak for me.

Another major highlight was the food and wine, yes red wine and cheese and avocado and cray fish and pizza…….  And all this for less than £15 per night.  It is free to for the canoe to get you there but you have to pay to leave; I am not sure that have it the correct way round!

 

I will return