Rubondo Island Vacation
Rubondo Island is tucked in the Southwest corner of the world’s second-largest lake, Lake Victoria, an inland sea spread out into Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. With nine smaller islands under its wing, Rubondo preserves wonderful fish breeding grounds.

The tasty tilapia make the main diet of the yellow-spotted others that play and move a bout in the island’s rocky caves, whereas the greedy Nile perch, some with over 100 kilograms, tempt recreational game fishermen looking for world record catches.

Rubondo gives a new meaning to a water wonderland. In other wards, it is more than a water wonderland. Deserted sandy beaches lie against a cloak of virgin forest, where dappled bush back move fleet yet silent, through a mace of tamarinds, wild palms, and sycamore figs strung with a cage of trailing tap roots.

The shaggy-coated aquatic Sitatunga, which is the most elusive of antelopes elsewhere, is remarkably seen easily, not only in the papyrus swamps where it usually resides, but also in the interior of the forest. Birds are all over the place.

Groups of African grey parrots, which were released into the island after they were confiscated from unauthorized exporters, give a harsh high-pitched sound in a funny way without harmony, as they fly with large and often noisy movements between the forests.

The azure brilliance of a malachite kingfisher perched low in the reeds competes with the attractive, flowing tail of a paradise flycatcher as it flies through the lakeshore forest. Herons, storks and spoonbills proliferate in the swampy lake fringes, supplemented by thousands of Eurasian migrants during the northern winter.

Wild jourmine 40 various orchids and a smorgasbord of sweet, indefinable smells emerge from the forest.

Ninety percent of the entire park is humid forest, the remaining part ranges from open grassland to lakeside papyrus beds.

Various local mammal species including hippo, vervet monkey, genet and mongoose, share their preserved home with introduced species, for example chimpanzee, black-and-white colobus, elephant and giraffe, all of which gain from the inaccessibility of Ruhondo.