Banda Island Lake Victoria (January 2012)

Work at the Lemon finished at the end of December 2011 and after a fabulous 'Occupy the Lemon Panda New Year Eve' party, Adrian and I headed off to visit Banda Island as potentially there was a job managing the island. The Island is beautiful and well worth a visit. I decided not to take up work there, but anyone traveling the way of Uganda, who wants to get off the beaten track should definitely head that way.


These are just a few snaps of the three days we spent there .. The journey starts in a lakeside fishing village with all the hustle and bustle of African market places. Boats in and out, loading and unloading of everything from fish to flour to chickens to building materials that the remote Ssese Islanders rely on. Then there are the 'carriers', the men are carried on their shoulders to the boats and the ladies in their arms, this allows the 'carriers' to make 500ugx per person. A fine way to make some coins ...

 After a 3 hour boat trip on a packed fishing boat you reach the island but still need to take a smaller boat round the island the the other side (I thought we could walk across the island but turns out that its harder than we thought .. Adrian will elaborate more on his blog) ...

 Then the castle comes into sight where the eccentric Dom used to live until his sad demise in 2011

Sunrise from the island is well worth getting up to see ..

 The dining room also has an upstairs from where it would be amazing to watch a storm over the lake

Chilies grow everywhere in Uganda ...

This was the banda that we stayed in ...

And this was dining out ...