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The road less travelled

A travel blog entry by grahamyoung

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... meds as we were nowhere near a clinic. We were told it wasn�t safe to walk the roads so we started the 200km journey to Lake Bunyoni in the back of a pickup. Once at an area that had public transport we transferred to a fifteen seat van holding around ...

Gorillas in the mist

A travel blog entry by angela_louise

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... habitat, but any minute I kept expecting a man in a gorilla suit to jump out and tell us we had all been tricked! I took about a million photos and then we headed back to camp. We left Lake Bunyoni after 4 days and headed for Jinja, the source of the ...

Lake Bunyoni

A travel blog entry by ccinafrica

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Busharaf Island is in the middle of Lake Bunyoni so once we got to the lake, the local porters emptied our truck and loaded all our bags and tents onto boats. It took about 15 minutes sailing before we reached the island where we were to camp for the ...

More school visits

A travel blog entry by brookeandchris

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Today was our last day in Bunyoni and we decided to do another school visit. We were going to a new school that had been set up in the village for orphans called "Little Angels." The school itself was fairly small, only about 5 classrooms but again rather ...

Preparing for the Gorillas Lakeside

A travel blog entry by sabarod

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Lake Bunyoni (place of many birds) is a wonderful little lake in the southwest of Uganda. This would be our base for the gorilla action. Shashe (our overland truck) would remain here while we continued deeper into the mountains. Surrounded by ...

Bus trip from Hell to Heaven

A travel blog entry by mike_bright

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... you couldn't walk around as there were people sitting in the isle. So I finally get to town and didn't sleep a wink. I was headed to Lake Bunyoni and took a motor bike to the lake. It was a good 30 minutes in the mountains and we just kept on going ...

Finally, a day off from the truck!

A travel blog entry by brookeandchris

We arrived yesterday at Lake Bunyoni, where we will spend 4 days relaxing in between gorilla trekking. After the long, bumpy days of driving around it will nice to settle down again for a couple of days. Our first day here, most of the people on ...

Lake Bunyoni

A travel blog entry by evs1210

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Evening all My final destination in Uganda was Lake Bunyoni, one of the most beautiful parts of the country and the perfect send off. After walking around for a few hours on the Saturday I walked past someone's house and they landed up inviting me in for ...

Bushara Island Camp

A travel blog entry by msting

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... , I had to shop here. My largest purchase was a statue carved in Entebbe. We continued on to Kabale for lunch. Then on to Lake Bunyoni & Bushara Island Camp. The camp was shockingly pleasant. We knew that we'd be camping, but not the way that it was ...

Early Starts

A travel blog entry by leonnatmckenna

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... were all trying to get pics but it was pretty hard as Patrick our driver was going like a bat out of hell. We arrived at Lake Bunyoni (Place of many little birds) and it was beautiful. This lovely campsite looking out over the lake. 8 of us went ...

Lake Bunyoni

A travel blog entry by norani

We stayed in this brilliant lake resort, where we get time away from the truck - I was bringing my rucksack down from the truck, and what happened - yep, fell over and now am in crutches. It's not broken but the ankle didn't look the right size or shape, ...

Lake Bunyoni - Randall's Birthday !

A travel blog entry by scapell

Randall's ...

First catch up with K on the road!

A travel blog entry by thebarretts

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... we turned off onto a dirt goat track and were driving around some beautiful hills and all of a sudden an awesome resort appeared (Lake Bunyonyi Overland Resort), surrounded by a lake which was to be our home for a while. We were camping but if you wanted ...

R&R&R (rest and relaxation and rain)

A travel blog entry by thebarretts

... much other than relax and before we knew it we were back on the road headed back to Kampala. We were meant to stay at Lake Bunyonyi for 3 nights but decided as a group to leave early to break up the long travelling day to Kampala and also, to get away ...

Early morning motorcycling....

A travel blog entry by lola_hd

... turns out that it is really the only reasonable way to get there, even on market days (which it was). When we got to Lake Bunyoni Overland Camp, we saw that it was truly idyllic. Not the cheapest camping, but a beautifully manicured lawn to camp on, ...

The cave

A travel blog entry by mariborkev

Monday is the last day at the Lake and a chance for people to recover. We take the opportunity to try and find a cave where the bones of early hu8mans were found. The cave also housed political refugees during the reign of Idi Amin. The resort is ...

lake

A travel blog entry by danielgreen

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Cricket

A travel blog entry by mariborkev

Sunday was another lazy day for those of us that didn't head to the gorillas. I settled in the bar early and got a prime spot to watch the Australia v India ODI, as the trekkers returned in teams during the day. We eat at the resort that night, ...

To the left you see Mountain Gorillas

A travel blog entry by asthebirdflies

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After uneventful nights in kisumu and Kampala ( we just stayed at the campsites!) we arrived at lake Bunyoni....the deepest crater lake in Africa. Bunyoni means 'little birds' and there are birds everywhere...little and large. The campsite was beautiful, ...

Quiet

A travel blog entry by mariborkev

... on most of the trip. We hire a canoe and go in search of Punishment island, a one tree island in the middle of the lake, where women who got pregnant out of wedlock were dumped. It is miles from the shore, so they died of starvation, or drown trying ...

chaos!

A travel blog entry by millarmotortour

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... pill to fix everything. Again, it was a challenging but good experience! This weekend, we were lucky enough to sneak away to the amazing Lake Bunyoni! It was about a 30 minute drive from Kabale, and then a one hour boat ride in a dug-out canoe. It is all ...

Kabale kids

A travel blog entry by mariborkev

I got badly sunburned round the ankles yesterday, but with a few painkillers in me, decide to head into Kabale which is the nearest town. The campsite staff say it is a 7.5km trek but after 3hours walking and all the locals telling us it is nearer ...

R&R at a beautiful lake

A travel blog entry by mandy_karl

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... that was nearly empty. All in all not the best of days but it meant that I got to see some more of the huge lake and 27 islands, including punishment island, where they used to put unmarried pregnant women - nice! On the island we met Bonnie and Mike ...

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The road less travelled

Gorillas in the mist

Lake Bunyoni

More school visits

Preparing for the Gorillas Lakeside

Bus trip from Hell to Heaven

Finally, a day off from the truck!

Lake Bunyoni

Bushara Island Camp

Early Starts

Lake Bunyoni

Lake Bunyoni - Randall's Birthday !

First catch up with K on the road!

R&R&R (rest and relaxation and rain)

Early morning motorcycling....

The cave

lake

Cricket

To the left you see Mountain Gorillas

Quiet

chaos!

Kabale kids

R&R at a beautiful lake