Travel Guide Kisiizi Falls

Nestling at the bottom of a green valley where banana trees and birds abound (including the magnificent bidentate barbican, African tchitrec, red-bellied suimanga and Lady Ross's touraco), this site is definitely worth a detour. Near the village of Kisiizi, a waterfall cascades down into a basin surrounded by lush vegetation. Sometimes a simple trickle of water during the dry season, the thirty-metre jump of the Rushoma River turns into a thundering waterfall during the rainy season. The history of the Kisiizi Falls is gloomy: the young Kiga girls who became pregnant before marriage suffered a fate as unenviable as those forcibly exiled on the two Punishment Islands of the region (lakes Mutanda and Bunyonyi) since they were pushed, sometimes by brothers blamed for not knowing how to look after their sisters, from the top of the rocky walls bordering the waterfall ... A cement monument, "Darkness to Light", erected on the site, recalls this practice which lasted until the 1930s. The profits generated by the entrance fees and the activities organized on the site are entirely donated to the Good Samaritan Fund, which provides access to medical services and infrastructures for the most underprivileged. Several trails lead to the village of Kisiizi. The most convenient one leaves the Mbarara-Kabale road at Rubhaare, 18 kilometres south of Ntungamo. Count forty-five minutes of travel for 27 kilometers on this track in fairly good condition through rugged landscapes