Ndali Lodge is set stunningly amidst the Bunyaruguru crater lake region of Western Uganda, 26 kilometres south of fort portal lies at the centre of 1000 acres of privately owned fertile farmland still cultivated in a traditional style.
'My eyes were directed by a boy to a mountain, said to be covered with salt, and i saw a perculiar shaped cloud...which assumed the proportions and appearance of a vast mountain covered with snow. following its form downward... I became for the first time conscious that what I gazed upon was not the image or semblance of a vast mountain, but solid substance of a real one, with its summit covered with snow... it now dawned upon me that this must be the ruwenzori...'
HENRY STANLEY IN DARKEST AFRICA
Ndali Lodge astride the equator (0 - 291N, 301 - 62E) sits on a narrow ridge 1,432 (4700ft) Above Sea Level with outstanding 360 degree views of ancient volcanic landscape, set against the backdrop of the Mountains of the Moon (Rwenzori Mountains).
The area's rich black volcanic soil is amongst the most fertile in Africa producing diverse plants and herbs and a bewildering variety of crops from tea and coffee through pineapples, passion fruits, bananas, mangoes, avocado; to millet, sweet potato, cassava, sorghum, ground nuts, yams and hot chillies. all of these can be experienced first hand at the lodge.
Ndali is in the heart of Western Uganda's crater lake region; the Ndali volcanic field was formed some 11,000 years ago, possibly due to activity along the northern part of the western rift valley - although local legend claims the lakes were made by the first bachwezi king when he retired to the area after abdicating in favour of his son. many of the early explorers to the rwenzoris remarked on the beauty of these volcanic foothills as they approached overland from kampala.