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 Mount Gahinga Lodge
Mount Gahinga Lodge, close to the park entrance, sits on a hillside in the shadow of three extinct volcanoes; Muhabura (4,127m), Sabyinyo (3,645m), Gahinga (3,475m). The lodge has a beautiful garden and is surrounded by rural housing and cultivated land mostly producing potatoes, but also some maize and a small amount of beans.The lodge's nine circular thatched cottages spread throughout the grounds. The cottages have a private ‘bucket’ shower and ‘long-drop’ toilet, similar to those found in remote safari camps, along a short corridor from the bedroom. Each of the cottages has its own verandah which, like the bar and dining room, looks across the valley with Lake Mutanda in the distance.
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Travellers Rest Hotel
In the utmost southwestern corner of Uganda, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the Hotel Travellers Rest lies under the towering volcanoes of Virunga. These mountains offer spectacular views on the Rift Valley and the emerald-green Lake Mutanda in the distance.
In the 1960ies, the famous American ‘gorilla-woman’ Dian Fossey visited Travellers Rest many, many times to do paperwork, to relax or to meet people. Fossey said about the hotel: ""It was my second home.""
Travellers Rest, just outside Kisoro, offers a cozy stay for tourists, who come to see the endangered mountain gorillas. The hotel, built in a somewhat colonial style, and entirely renovated in 1999, has a comfortable ambiance. The twelve rooms are comfortably furnished and well-equipped. The beautiful surrounding garden is home to many birds, thus providing a constant source of sweet vibes and birdsong. In the evenings, when it gets cooler, visitors can warm themselves at the fireplace, outside or in the lounge.
From the hotel there are a lot of activities for visitors to undertake. Travellers Rest provides bikes to discover the nearby surroundings, one may visit Lake Mutanda, you can walk to the local market in Kisoro on Mondays and Thursdays, or you can climb one of the volcanoes. And of course you can go and track the mountain gorilla. To see these animals, visit the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda or the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda.
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