The Scenery Of Lake Bunyonyi is enclosed by the magnificent green hills of Kigezi with terraces rising to a height of 2,200 – 2,478m.

The range of 29 Islands straddling the waters of this beautiful lake form one of the great sightseeing admirations that one can ever encounter.

The beautiful sight appears fresh for the great part of the day due to abrupt weather changes along with the direction of the sun.

The morning presents beautiful mist covering the myriad of Islands while the afternoon is marked by the warm tropical sun cover.

The dim sky appears as the evening draws close. At times, the clouds can soak the entire island out of sight. The view of Lake Bunyonyi is perfectly explored from the panoramic hill which shelters Arcadia Lodge.

A meal or a drink at the terrace overlooking Lake Bunyonyi offers a lifetime memory that is worth exploring while on safari in Uganda.

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The Islands of Lake Bunyonyi and the close lake surroundings feature the settlement of two tribes – the Bakiga and Batwa. The Batwa people were introduced to the area following their eviction from the forests of Bwindi, Echuya, and Mgahinga.

The Batwa people are indigenous inhabitants of Uganda, and their heritage is rich and worth exploring. Though they were evicted from their homes – forests, the Batwa still possess the last of their fading culture.

Their music dance and drama will definitely mesmerize whoever attempts to incorporate them in his/ her Uganda safari tour package or draw the same into the sorrowful imagination of how their tradition is steadily fading away.

The Bakiga are part of the Bantu group that has tilled the hills of Kigezi for centuries past. They are popularly known for their strength and unmatchable hard work when it comes to cultivation. They have rich traditions too which are worth exploring.

Their energetic dance is impressive while their ancient stories on how the pregnant girls would be dumped on the Punishment Island and left to die will open you to understanding their extreme wrath.

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After witnessing the huge impact of leprosy in the region, he established a voluntary isolation center- Leprosy Hospital – on Bwama Island, for people afflicted with Leprosy.

In the 1920s, leprosy was one of the deadly diseases in Uganda.

The disease was often surrounded by terrifying, negative stigmas and tales of leprosy patients being shunned as outcasts.

Kabale was one of the areas with a lot of leprosy sufferers. Today the disease has been eradicated, and the island is more of a tourist destination than anything else.

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Centuries ago before missionaries came to Uganda, there lived a man on this island. He diligently worshiped the ancestral spirits in a big shrine and appeased them by sacrificing a cow every year.

One year, the man ran out of cattle, and he failed to meet the demands of the spirits. They got angry and made him mad.  During his state of insanity, visitors to this island always referred to it as the “Crazy Man’s Place”, hence the name Kahungye.

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Akampene Island/Punishment Island is perhaps the most interesting of the Lake Bunyonyi islands.

It is the place unmarried girls who became pregnant were brought by their fathers or brothers and punished by abandoning them on this island.

Here, they faced one of two possible fates. Any man who did not own sufficient cows to pay for an untainted bride was permitted to fetch the disgraced girl from the island and make her his wife. Failing that, the girl would usually starve to death or die while trying to swim ashore.

For a girl to become pregnant before marriage was shameful to the family. This was a common practice in southwestern Uganda but has long been abandoned!

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Unfortunately for the drinking party, the woman was a sorceress.

She returned to her canoe, paddled a safe distance away, and then used her magical powers to overturn the island-drowning everybody in the party and then flipping it back the right way up as if nothing had happened.

This is why the Island is called Bucuranuka (meaning Upside down in Rukiga local Language).

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Bushara Island is a wonderful place to relax in comfort surrounded by nature. The island is also where the headquarters of lake Bunyonyi Development Company.

The company is a Ugandan registered NGO that supports sustainable farming in the Lake Bunyonyi area as well as raising funds for orphans and providing workshops for local women to earn through the making and selling of handicrafts to visitors.

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