12 Days Mount Rwenzori Adventurous Safari

After breakfast, your driver will pick you up from your hotel and you will transfer to Kaseese via Masaka with a stopover in Mbarara for lunch. You will continue with your journey to Kaseese where you will spend the night. On arrival, you will check in your hotel, relax, have dinner and a night’s rest.
Accommodation: Margherita Hotel

Just after having your breakfast, you will start by walking up the valley floor through tall forest trees of the Afro Montane Forest Zone. This is a steady climb with multitudes of birds and a chance of seeing blue monkeys scampering off through the forest. You will hike to Sine hut where you will spend the night. Enock’s Falls are just 200 meters from Sine Hut and offer a splendid opportunity to capture a great screensaver for your memories.
Accommodation: Sine Hut

After breakfast, trekking will start at 8.30am and almost immediately you enter the Bamboo Mimulopsis Zone which is steep climb with many high steps. In the wet season the bamboo zone is rather muddy and slippery making the going slow. However, there is good place which is in the Heather-Rapanea Zone where you can take a rest and a quick cup of tea or coffee before heading on to Mutinda Camp. The trail twists and turns as you climb up the deep valley, which has an
enormous variety of plants and flowers. This valley is unique with many Giant Heather trees creating a beautiful atmosphere often shrouded in mist. In the afternoon you may wish to climb up to the top of the Mutinda Lookout which has beautiful views. Spend the night at Mutinda Camp Accommodation: Mutinda Camp

Today you will have breakfast and start off with the day’s trek early enough when you are still fresh and strong. The trail to Bugata Camp is boggy particularly in the wet season but with a little skill you can step from tussock to tussock to make the going easier. First you cross the Mutinda valley through the tussock grass and everlasting flowers interspersed with many Giant Lobelias before climbing a steep section up to the Namusangi Valley (3,840 meters), with sheer waterfalls and looking back you get fantastic views of Mutinda Peaks. The Namusangi Valley is wide, with many ups and downs as the trail climbs steadily to Bugata Camp at 4,100 metres. Accommodation: Bugata Camp

Have your breakfast and get ready to start the day. Trek to Hunwick’s Camp via Bamwanjarra Pass. As you leave Bugata Camp you pass up a ridge then drop down slightly before ascending to Bamwanjarra Pass at 4,450 meters where we have a hut should the weather turn bad. From the pass on a clear day you get excellent views of the three main peaks. The trail passes down the valley and around the edge of some bogs and thick ever green vegetation, moss. giant groundsel and lobelia. Here is possibly the best place in all the Rwenzori to observe the Malachite Sunbird as it feeds on the many lobelia flowers and a known breeding site. Farther on there is some steep sections before a steady climb up and over a ridge to Hunwick’s Camp which is situated on the top of a deep valley and has good views of Mt Stanley, Mt Baker, Weismanns Peak and McConnell’s Prong.
Accommodation: Hunwick’s Camp

Today after having your breakfast, from Hunwick’s we pass down and across the valley floor to Lake Kitendara which is very stunning with deep water and beautiful vegetation. From here you climb up Scott Elliott’s pass then up the ridge to Margherita Camp 4,485 metres which is situated between some huge rocks and offering some shelter from the strong winds. This is the very spot where the Duke of Abruzzi camped when making his climb to Margherita Peak in 1906. Accommodation: Margherita Camp

Wake up at 2am and catch an early breakfast before heading off to climb Mt Stanley at 2.30am. This is necessary as the weather has changed a lot and often even during the dryer season the mountain is closed in with heavy clouds and snow falls from 1 pm to 4pm and this happens within a short period of 10 to 15 minutes as the clouds rise up from the extensive Congo rainforests. On arrival to Margherita peak, there will be strict turnaround time due to the weather at the peak. After
ascending the peak at 5,109 meters you then pass directly down to Hunwick’s Camp at 3.874 meters.
Accommodation: Hunwick’s Camp

After breakfast, from Hunwick’s Camp we start the day by climbing up a ridge towards McConnell’s Prong where you get the best views of all three peaks and Scott Elliott’s Pass before reaching Oliver’s Pass at 4,505 metres. The distance from Hunwick’s Camp to the top of Olivers Pass is 3km The trail then cuts across below Weismann’s Peak to the confluence of the Nyamwamba River which flows down thought Kilembe and Kasese to Lake George in Queen Elisabeth National Park.After crossing the confluence, the trail meanders down the valley to Kiharo Camp at which is situated in a deep valley with high cliffs and dense vegetation. On the way down the valley after each bog you will climb over a ridge of stones and earth which seems out of place but actually was pushed there by slow moving glaciers which eventually stopped moving, melted and left a pile of rocks and debris in front of where the glacier once stood. Accommodation: Kiharo Camp

Start the day with breakfast and depart the Rwenzori Mountains back to Kaseese. The trail down the Nyamwamba Valley is mostly downhill and absolutely stunning with beautiful views, moss covered rocks along the river, cascading waterfalls, deep valleys and forests are possibly the best in the Rwenzori Mountains. A few kilometers from Kiharo Camp the path turns off to the right to pass along the river. In the clear areas you may catch a glimpse of a Duiker quietly feeding in small clearings as you pass along the river. This area is possible the highest population of Rwenzori Red Duikers anywhere in the National Park. A few kilometers down the river it becomes steeper with multitudes of stunning waterfalls. After the waterfalls we climb up and over a high ridge then down though the dense forests with stunning views of the valley below. We stop at Forest View Camp for lunch before proceeding back to Base Camp. A great experience and ending to a fantastic trek.
Accommodation: Margherita Hotel

After breakfast, start your journey back to Entebbe via Fort Portal. The transfer will be rewarding with beautiful sightings of plantations, crater lakes and others. You will have a stopover for lunch and then continue to Entebbe. Check in in the lodge for the night’s rest.
Luxury: Hotel No. 5
Midrange: Boma Hotel/Kaazi Beach Resort/2Friends Beach Hotel
Budget: Guinea Fowl Entebbe

Arise and shine, it’s another beautiful morning. Have breakfast and have yourself a day of relaxing at the poolside of the hotel. Your driver will be ready to transfer you to the Airport for departure.