Mutanda Eco Community Centre (MECC) | Established Campground

January 28th, 2024 by rjmbeeks

We enjoyed our stay at the plot just near the lake. Many birds and otters passing by now and then. We had the privacy we wanted and found the manager caring rather than pushy. Ask if they can open the gift shop and get a T shirt with nice prints.

November 15th, 2023 by 14honeybadgers

We stayed for two nights. Did not take up any of the excursions on offer, too expensive, although we now know a gorilla trekking permit costs $700 so theirs is actually cheap. Enjoyed our stay. No hot water in showers but ablutions are spotless. Too expensive, firewood, to light donkey for two people. Friendly staff, safe etc and did have access to power but they’re also on solar and it was mostly cloudy so our electricity declined a lot. Went for a nice walk and enjoyed our barbecue. All in all a pleasant two night stay. 3/5

August 21st, 2023 by exploretraveloasis.com

Relatively chill spot on Lake Mutanda. We camped by the lake, but as others have said, there's no privacy. The manager, Rubafos, is nice but pretty pushy with the expensive activities. Asked for $10 pppn, we negotiated to 30,000 shillings. There are now showers with lukewarm water. The walk from the campsite around the lake is gorgeous, but a lot of harassment for money. Overall, we liked it and stayed 4 nights.

August 13th, 2022 by eric.a.burger

There are 3 areas for camping:
At the lake where it can be quite windy and definitely not private.
In the carpark behind the kitchen. Here there is a fenced-off grass area too, so if you have a ground tent this is a good spot.
There is a level grass area above this, but access is quite tight for a vehicle. We just managed to get our troopy LC up, but only just! See picture. Apparently no one else has ever driven a cruiser up there, so there you go.

June 2nd, 2022 by Instagram: @savannatales

Stayed 2 nights here. Very nice place with beautiful views. Manager Gilbert is friendly always willing to help you feel comfortable. We camped with our rooftop tent by the lake but there was always people passing around. If you want privacy is better to camp at the fenced Parking Lot which has a beautiful volcano view. Hot showers only in bucket. Great internet signal with MTN. They asked for 10 USD ppn slightly negotiable when paying with UGX.

August 11th, 2021 by Nomadic_Hagrid

Stayed here one night on the edge of the lake. Beautiful views and nice guys running it (Innocent). Campsite is ideally located and secure. The staff will prepare hot water for a bucket shower if you request.
Restaurant on site and bar with a great view. Nice little path along the lake edge for bird viewing etc...
Unfortunately when we stayed there were an indescribable amount of mosquitoes, we've been travelling for over 3months from South Africa and nothing even comes close. We couldn't cook dinner, as there were without exaggeration 10s of thousands. With that in mind it makes it a bit difficult to recommend. Perhaps we were just unlucky with timing.
Up by the bar and that, there seemed to be significantly less mosquitoes, but unfortunately at the waters edge it was overwhelming. In every other respect I would highly recommend.

February 13th, 2021 by ondjila-travel.com

directly at the beautiful lake. New sanitary buildings. Remote place to relax and wonderful canoe trips (5US$pp) across the lake to watch a rich bird life. The food is delicious. Wooden decks for fishing and swimming. 10US$pp but we negotiated 6US$.

February 15th, 2019 by free-on-wheels.reislogger.nl

Nice place at the lake. Lots of birds. Friendly staff
Correct location in maps.me

September 9th, 2018 by craig.ali

This place is in wrong location - it is located at -1.25652, 29.68214

September 5th, 2018 by craig.ali

This place is shown in the wrong location (by a very long way), and it is also shown in the wrong location on maps.me
The correct location is at the south end of Lake Mutanda - on maps.me they say that Mutanda Eco Tourist Resort is here, while MECC is shown about half way up on the eastern side of the lake. MECC is actually at the south end location.
01°15′23.47″S 29°40′55.72″E
We stayed three nights. Cost $6 pppn to camp. As it was raining we set up camp in the big building at the bottom of the hill - raised wooden floor, good roof, one open side, even had a proper fireplace. No running water but the team brought water on request. Long drop toilets and bucket shower. They give a bucket of hot water for the shower if you ask. Really friendly and helpful staff. We managed to get gorilla trek permits here through the owner of the Golden Monkey hotel (he also runs MECC) with only 24 hours notice.

October 5th, 2017 by fahrtwend.ch

Nice place at lakeshore of Mutanda. Signpost from mainroad about 4km
bandas 50 US$, safari tent 40US$, campsite 6US$ pp/n, few flat space for cars/rooftent.
Birdwatching in canoo 5US$/motorboat 10US$ pp, bar/restaurant drinks and meals available.
very friendly and helpful staff