
Cycling Experience
By Gavin, a visitor to Chameleon Hill Lodge
We drove through the majesty of the sun rising in Bwindi, to reach our first view point (which really looked like something from Game of Thrones) and arrived at our destination – Chameleon Hill Lodge – to pick up our mountain bikes and meet our amazing guide, Godfrey. Godfrey was a gentleman from the word go and with a brief introduction to the bikes and himself we set out on our journey. We had in our mind that we would be cruising around a lake edge on a flat path, stopping for snaps every so often – this was most definitely not the case. We found ourselves pretty quickly doing some pretty serious mountain biking. Godfrey did offer several options to make it easy, including various points where you can finish and complete your journey with a lovely boat trip back to the lodge; he also accounts for the more eager beaver amongst us by patiently waiting and helping people up hills. We are both quite fit but to do the full lake circumference put us to the test. We were exhausted by the end and probably would have quite 2 or 3km before the end if there had been a boat at that point! Be warned, the full lap does require a high level of fitness.