Location

Kikonko Lodge, Lake Albert, is situated inbetween the two most visited national parks of Uganda, Murchison Falls and Kibale Forest / Queen Elizabeth.

Within Kikonko’s vicinity one can find Bugoma Forest Central Reserve which is know for chimpanzee tracking and the Kabwoya Game Reserve, which can be considered the hidden gem of Uganda with a lot of antelopes and buffaloes.

The Bugoma Forest is only 40 minutes drive away and offers amazing chimpanzee tracking and forest walks through dense vegetation for a fraction of the price visitors would pay in Kibale Forest. If you have the time you can spend a whole day with the rangers and be part of the chimpanzee habituation project.

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Restaurant Area with view over Lake Albert Kikonko Lodge Uganda

If you are coming from the capital Kampala you travel for 200km to Hoima town (that will take 4hours), then another 32km (half an hour) to Kikonko Lodge where you can see Lake Albert. Kikonko Lodge is built 250 meter above Lake Albert Sea level. Half way you can have a great stop-over at the spring cafe. Look out for the signpost.

How to find us:

From Hoima: Kikonko can be reached in an easy 30-minute drive (32km) on a tarred road (Hoima - Kaiso Road).

coming from Fort Portal?

If you are coming from Fort Portal you take the Kyenjojo - Hoima road. At the viallage called Kiziranfumbi you need the newly tarmaced road via Kidoma . When you hit the tarmac road in Kabaale you turn right. After 23 km you reach Buseruka and turn left there. Google maps will not show you the way (as the street is new, but trust us the road is there! If you use google enter the villages Kiziranfumbi and Kidoma as stop overs and you will be fine..

A bit of history

Lake Albert was "discovered" in 1864 by Samuel Baker. At that time he called it Albert Nyanza, after “Prince Albert”. The Congolese president Mobutu Sese Seko named it after himself in the 20th century.

Need to know more? Maybe Wikipedia can help!

The heart of Africa - Lake Albert

Lake Albert is situated in the heart of Africa in the East African valley, between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Lake Albert is the 7^th largest lake in Africa, the 27^th in the world by volume with a width of 30km and length of 160km. Lake Albert covers an area of 5,270 km2 of which 2,850 km2 (54%) is on the Ugandan side.

There is a lot of touristic potential that can still be discovered at Lake Albert.

Find more information here:

http://www.western-uganda.net/lake_albert.html

Sustainable tourism

We believe in sustainable tourism and being one with nature as much as possible.

WATER: Being situated in a place where water is scarce (believe it or not, even though the Lake is so close, there is NO water at the site!), we have to transport every single drop over quite some distance to make it reach our toilets and showers. We therefore use it sparingly and would appeal to our guests to do the same.

ELECTRICITY: Electricity comes entirely from a solar system which is why we cannot use any devices that produce heat. Hair dryers can therefore securely rest in our guests’ luggage. We have an extra solar system at the camping site. For our solar system we use recycled lithium batteries from a company (ZEMBO) that produces electric bodas, so we do not need to buy new batteries.

No Plastic: We dont sell single used plastic bottles on site. Help us reduce the plastic bottles we use in this world! You will also not find and plastic chairs, straws, etc at Kikonko Lodge.

Drinking water is for free! Water should be for free wherever you travel. Bring your water bottle for a refill as many times as you want!

WASTE: Furthermore, every piece of trash that we produce needs to be taken care of. There is no garbage collection on site. We therefore try to separate all the rubbish that we produce, there is a compost area on site, we collect plastic and glass and bring it back to Kampala for recycling. We also encourage our guests to take their trash with them and dispose of it where there is proper waste management.

Solar Water heater: The sun is heating our water! In case its a rainy day you might not get very hot water, sorry for that and we thank you for your understanding!

Buy local: We buy our groceries locally and try to avoid packaging as much as possible. Therefore, we do not offer or sell water in plastic bottles.