Lake Bunyoni

To get to lake Bunyoni we hired a car from Bwindi. Much to our amusement we had a driver and his name was Jackson. Jackson annoyed us endlessly by asking us how he can catch a muzungu... which is a question we get asked like 5 times a day. "To catch a muzungu you must listen" we said " and have a boda boda, 5 goats, and an endless supply of chiapatis".... to this Jackson would always say "yes but how do you catch a muzungu" rendering him a lost cause. As annoying as he was- he let me drive and that was really fun till I backed the car into a hole. Not to worry- hakuna matata- me and some others just pushed it out again. If there is something I have learned in Africa- everything can be fixed, dont worry, just relax... if you dont know what to do just stand around and stare at your problem till something happens.
Our trip to Lake Bunyoni was a drive through the mountains- hence private transport- and it was beautiful. Farm land and jungle. At one point we looked at each other and realized we were really in the middle of nowhere. But 3 hours later we arrived at a town and asked Jackson to pull over so that we could take a picture of the farm land all over the mountains. When we got out we could hear "halo muzungu" echoing all over the mountains and when we squinted we could see little kids here and there jumping up and down and waiving, a mile away from us and each other. Lake Bunyoni was beautiful. We went and rented a canoe for a couple bucks and took it out to one of the islands. I turned out to be the only one who could steer the dug out canoe so I was dubbed Captian Jackie Sparrow for the day and my arms still hurt. Jackie, jessa, josey, justin- these are the names I respond to in Africa- mine is simply impossible. The way to paddle a dug out canoe is to go "slowly slowly" or else you do what is dubbed the "muzungu corkscrew" which we dabbled in for a few hours to begin with, going in circles and laughing. We even brought a local who proved to be useless at paddeling but at one point randomly blurted out that one could loose their virginity with a banana thus redeeming himself and becoming the butt of our jokes for the rest of the day. Oh Africa......