Lake Mutanda is a volcanic lake some fifteen minutes from Kisoro town. While being home to various species of fish, African python (on one of the world's largest species of snakes) and the "peek-a-boo" African clawless otter, it is crocodile-, hippo- and bilharzia-free and enjoyed by swimmers from both near and far.

We invite visitors to our second campsite at Lake Mutanda where swimming, canoing, birding, eating as well as sleeping can all be enjoyed at affordable rates.

Accomodation

We have three options for accomodation at the water's edge. You are welcome to enjoy the high views from the patio of our raised log cabin with a double bed inside. Or you can stay on our raised wooden platform which hosts three furnished tents with two beds in each. 

Prices and Activities

We charge 30 000 Uganda Shillings for accomodation per night. If you are just a day visitor, we also ask a modest fee for use of our swimming pier - it needs maintenance every now and then!

Renting a dug-out canoe, and someone to paddle you around, costs around 10 000 shillings for half a day. You are also welcome to rent your own dug-out canoe and learn to paddle yourself.

For the even more adventurous, we can organise python safaris done by canoe with paddler and a guide. The animals are shy and we cannot guarantee sightings, but we do have extensive experience of tracking these fat, nonvenomous snakes down. Besides, they are easy to see - they can reach several meters in length.

Where does the money go?

Currently, the money earned from this camp is invested back into buildings and gardens on-site. The vision is for a Mutanda Eco - Community Centre where all refuse is recycled, where an endemic garden offers medicinal herbs for local communities and where profits from tourism provide the funds for adult study-circles promoting literacy in the region. Extensive architectural drawings, featuring beautiful traditional designs, and a detailed sustainability study were made of the site some years ago but fundly has sadly remained lacking. However, this is an issue we tackle little-by-little with the aid of our Swedish partner, the MbiriMbiri Association (see Our partners, to the right).