Travel Guide Kigozi

Kigozi (Colline Hill) is a small site of the commune Bugabira located a few kilometres from Kirundo, between paddy, banana plantations and them plots of beans, where people are poor but seem never to want to show it. A clinic, a maternity and a school under the supervision of the Bene Tereziya sisters are roughly the only buildings in the vicinity, where usually frail housing houses and banana leaves dominate.You must go beyond these constructions to reach the Bordure lake, where the beach of Yaranda is located, with its fascinating landscape of green hills and pale blue water. We come here to rest and relax in nature, to climb on a canoe that cleave the quiet waters of the lake, but you don't have to swim. Indeed, Cohoha Lake, like most northern lakes, is infested with bilharziasis, a disease due to flat-line worms entering the body by contact with infected surface waters (walking or bathing in the lake). This disease is prevalent among fishermen and farmers in the flooded area. After a simple itching with itching, the attack is hepatic, and its complications can be serious. So avoid…