Activities for you here at Crater Bay Cottages
Boat Cruise
A Boat Cruise to the islands this includes a guide who will take you for a two hour cruise.
Within these two hours you can visit about 4-5 islands. Namely Bushara Island, well known for its beautiful bird species and vegetation and tall trees, this Island also has a restaurant, a very quiet environment.
Kyahugye Island with Zebras, Waterbucks, Antelopes and Monkeys. The Island also has a restaurant.
Bushara Island also known as Leprosy Island has villages, schools and hospitals you can visit and experience the life of the people living on this Island.
We would recommend visiting a school because most of the students and pupils in these schools are orphans and having a difficult back ground, so donating a pen, pencil or book would put a smile on their face and encourage them to work harder for a better future and hope.
Other Islands include Punishment Island, Prison Island where unmarried young women who got pregnant out of wedlock were put to starve, or die while swimming back to their homes.
Bucuranuka Island also known as upside down Island. Kyabahinga known as “Island of the View” whereby you hike for about twenty minutes to the view point where you get a beautiful panoramic view of the islands here on Lake Bunyonyi and a nice view of Mountain Muhabura found in Kisoro district.
The cost for the boat cruise is 40 dollars for a boat.
Cultural Experience
Batwa or Pygmy Experience
This activity takes about three and a half hours.
Forty minutes by boat to the Kyevu and thirty minutes’ walk to the village.
When you reach the village, firstly the cultural dance is given by the pygmies and later you can walk around the village experiencing the type of huts (houses) they sleep in, the weapons they use for hunting, their cultural dress codes, hand crafts they make and sell to earn a living and other kinds of work they do to get income.
The pygmy cultural experience costs 65 dollars.
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Hiking
We also organise hiking where by it will take you approximately thirty to forty minutes to hike up to the view point and approximately thirty minutes back down here to the hotel.
When you reach the view point, there is hotel called “Acadia Cottages” from which you can sit and enjoy the views of the lake and a cold drink.
Mountain Bike Hire
Mountain bikes can also be hired for two hours.
With this biking you can enjoy biking on the road to Kacwekano, past Kacwekano then on to Kabale town and then enjoy the cool breeze in town, where by later you can come back here to the hotel.
A bike is 15 dollars when you want to go by yourself and 25 dollars with a guide.
Canoeing
Another activity is canoeing.
Where by use of a local dugout canoe you can go by yourselves for about 2 hours to the nearby islands approximately three islands.
This will cost 10 dollars and in case you require a guide, that will cost 15 dollars for two hours.
Swimming
You are free to go swimming here in the lake which you can do from our swimming dock.
There are no dangerous animals and the lake is free from bilharzia, we also have some beautiful sunbathing beds on the dock you can use.