Explore the Gems of Victoria Lake and Go on Ukara Island Tour

Overnight on Ukara Island With Dancing Stone Performance

This is the stone that dances after getting a traditional dance request from a special man from the family that looks for the stone. Beautiful and pleasing songs lead to the dancing. The original of this stone is a fight of two brothers from the same family who had a conflict. One ran and met a cave under the dancing stone.

He jumped onto another stone nearby the cave and entered the cave that available under the dancing stone, and he did not come back out. The second brother ran back home and informed the family members about their fight and about the loss of his brothers who has left his foot prints on the stone.

When the family members and their friends went to witness his cave entering they found only the footprints. They sang beautiful and pleasing songs to get him back but the response to the songs was the dancing of the stone. Since then, the stone has danced after receiving the beautiful and pleasing songs by the family members.

To get to Ukara Island Tour with the stone, you have to take a motorbike from your hotel in Nansio-Ukerewe to Bugolola village with a ferry site. Then take a ferry from the village to Bwisha, the town of the island. The ferry leaves for Ukara Island two times a day: at 12:00 pm and at 5:00 pm, and the ferry ride is around an hour.

Then take a bicycle or a motorbike to the family that looks for the stone, and then go on beach where the stone is available. It is difficult to go to the island and return from there on the same day, so you are to stay in Bwisya, the town of the island, for at least one night. Guest houses and meals are available.

 

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Tours on Ukerewe Isalnd, Lake Vicoria

Some tours on Ukerewe Island can be done on bike or motorcycle.

  •  Bike tours to Hamuyebe village for Sunset
  •  Bike tours of Rutare hill
  •  Visit to Local family in village

 

  • Halwogo village with View points
  • Chief’s palace
  • Visit to Traditional healer

 

  • Visit to Albino community
  • Visit to local Farmers on Lake Victoria in their fields.
  • Visit to local Fishermen on the shores of Ukerewe Isaland at their work.

 

  • Traditional dance shows
  • Visit to Local primary schools

 

  • Motor bike tour of  Rubya Beach forest
  • Ukara island tour of  Dancing stone

Update 2018: tours are not available anymore due to poor road conditions. Check Tripadvisor or Getyourguide.com for tours in Lake Victoria.