Tour duration: 18 Days
Destinations visited: Mountains of the moon, Bwindi and Queen Elizabeth National Parks.
If you love adventure, unique, beautiful landscapes and areas seldom visited by tourists, trekking either the Ruwenzori Mountains or Mount Elgon is a ‘must-do’ when visiting Uganda. Along with some stunning scenery, challenging climbing and a range of flexible trips on offer, all you have to do is ensure that you are on ‘peak’ form!
Your Safari sets off with the mighty Bwindi Impenetrable Forest for an exciting trek to find the African mountain gorilla. Then absorb the stunning landscapes and people of Uganda as you drive through the western region of this magnificent country.
Go on to explore Queen Elizabeth National Park the second largest protected wildlife park in Uganda.. Queen Elizabeth offers many exciting activities like hot air balloon safaris, lion tracking, chimpanzee trekking in Kyambura gorge and cruising on the Kazinga Channel.
Day to Day Itinerary:
- Day 1: Arrival Uganda
- Days 2 – 4: Uncover Bwindi National park
- Day 4: Drive to the Trailhead
- Day 5: Trek to Samalira
- Day 6: To Kiharo Camp
- Day 7: To Namusangi Valley
- Day 8: Kachope Lakes
- Day 9: To Scott Elliot Pass
- Day 10: Margherita Peak
- Day 11: Heading back to Camp 3
- Day 12: Peat Bogs to Mutinda Camp
- Day 13: To Kalalama Camp
- Day 14: Descent to Trailhead
- Days 15 – 17: Queen Elizabeth National park awaits
- Day 18: Home bound
18 Days Gorillas & Hiking the Ruwenzori Mountains
Day 1: Welcome to Uganda
On arrival at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport, you will be met by a representative and transferred to the Boma Guesthouse Entebbe. This charming 1940’s guesthouse is the ideal place to relax and prepare for the coming adventure. Spend the afternoon lazing in the pool garden or rent a bicycle to explore this bustling city.
Days 2 – 4: Uncover Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
An early start sees you off to the airport to catch your domestic flight to Kihihi Airstrip, the gateway to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will be met by a representative and driven through the countryside to Bwindi Lodge.
Despite its rather forbidding name, Bwindi is a tropical forest wonderland. The landscape changes dramatically: Bwindi is a place of steep hillsides, dense jungle and towering trees.
Soak up the Buhoma scenery & Batwa/pygmy culture: Spend half of your first day trailing with the displaced Batwa pygmies who’ll share their amazing heritage and traditions with the world. Enjoy an incredible day hike in the rain forest with Batwa guides, see how the pygmies lived and hunted for hundreds of years in the forests, learn about medicinal plants, and watch for other colourful rainforest inhabitants and birds. You can optionally hike to the Munyiiga waterfall. Specialized birding safaris can be arranged as well as historical tours and cultural visits to local villages. For those taking it easy, there are plenty of comfortable spaces to relax and appreciate the impressive scenery and in the evening there is live music and entertainment around the campfire.
After a day of forest wandering, you will settle in at Bwindi Lodge, eco-friendly accommodation in the midst of this acclaimed World Heritage Site. There are only eight thatched suites, all with lovely views of the surrounding forest.
Buhoma the Northern section of Bwindi has four known habituated gorilla families and, after a hearty breakfast to fuel you for your trek, you will set out in the early morning to find them. The going can be hard as the mountains are steep, the air humid and the vegetation dense. But the exertion is all worth it when you finally reach a group of gorillas eating, grooming, playing or napping. Their behaviour is so familiar that you may feel like you have known them all your life; it is an inspiring and privileged moment to see these highly endangered creatures in the wild.
Once back at the lodge, you will no doubt appreciate a massage from the in-house therapist to ease out the stresses and aches of your day’s trek. Those who still feel energetic may want to do a couple of laps in the swimming pool.
Day 4: Drive to the Trailhead
We depart early today for a fairly long drive to Kilembe in Kasese District. This is where your basic but cozy guesthouse is situated. From here you will start the hiking tomorrow.
Trekkers Hostel is 12 kilometers from Kasese town in a deep valley at the end of the road leading to the Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Behind the hostel meanders the Nyamwamba River which the Kilembe trail follows deep into the Rwenzori Mountains National Park. The surroundings are delightfully green and the weather cool since the hostel is at an altitude of 1,450 meters (500 m above Kasese town).
Time to climb
Day 5: Trek to Samalira
The first two kilometers climb steadily through pristine montane forest, with tall trees thick undergrowth and a multitude of different species of birds and primates. Then a fairly strenuous climb up a main ridge with few rocks and firm footing except immediately after a heavy downpour, climbing to your first night at Samalira Camp. As you leave the ranger’s post, you walk along a path through tall grassland and ferns which gives way to magnificent pristine forests. As this is a new route the forests are untouched and carry a wide variety of trees and plants. Many species of birds can be heard and seen in this rich environment. The first few kilometers climb steadily crossing several small streams and rivers then the trail starts climbing the ridge. As we climb, the trees become taller and straighter and it is common to see and hear many types of primates. Off to the left you may hear troupes of chimpanzee echoing around the valleys. Particularly around our lunch spot at 2,570m it is possible to see troupes of 20 or more black and white colobus monkeys or blue monkeys as they dash through the trees.
After lunch you will continue to climb steadily passing a rock shelter (2,785m) previously used by poachers to hunt primates and duiker (small antelope). After the rock shelter the climb enters the bamboo zone and becomes steeper. As you near the top the trail breaks out of the bamboo to fantastic views of the valleys and hills below looking across to Lake George and Queen Elizabeth National Park in the distance. The equator lies just north of Lake George. Samalira Camp is at 3,147 meters, offering great views of the surrounding landscape and Kasese town. (Mobile network available at this camp).
Distance: 8.6 km
Time: 5 to 7 hours
Altitude: 1,667 to 3,171 m
Camp: Samalira
Day 6: To Kiharo Camp
After a hearty breakfast, we commence walking at 8.15 and climb steadily before crossing a small stream and then the climb becomes steep for about 200 meters up a narrow moss covered ridge. The thick moss covering the ground and rocks under the giant heather trees is spectacular and we ask that you help preserve this pristine environment by keeping to the pathway. The views give us the impression that we could fly as we look across the many ridges and valleys far below. You can see Kilembe village deep in the valley and across Lake George. After a relatively short climb the trail becomes less steep as we pass over Chavumba (meaning heaven) at 3,316m then cross a small flat valley to climb up a steady ridge through moss-covered trees and misty forests to the top of the ridge at 3,515 meters. Here we descend steadily for about one kilometer before a steep descent of 200 meters into the Nyamwamba Valley and a well earned lunch break at Polies Rock Shelter- 3,249 meters.
After lunch we climb steadily above the Nyamwamba River for 1.6km though old giant heathers covered in old man’s beard moss to Kiharo Camp at 3,588 meters directly at the base of some good granite rock climbs of 20 to 40 meters, with towering peaks above.
Distance: 6.9 km
Time: 4 to 5 hours
Altitude: 3,588m
Camp: Kiharo
Day 7: To Namusangi Valley
The trail starts by ascending to Bamwanjara Pass then descend to the Kachope Lakes; the top of the pass offers spectacular scenery of the main peaks ahead particularly on a clear day.
After an early breakfast you’ll climb a short steep climb through the narrow valley with large moss covered rocks. This area is stunning as you weave through the narrow passes near the foot of towering peaks till you reach the wider upstream Nyamwamba River. From here you climb steadily along the valley floor with small bogs and many giant lobelias. Both sides of the valley are lined with sheer cliff faces as we near the confluence of the Nyamwamba and Namusangi valleys. Our third camp – at 4,065 meters – is above Lake Kopello and has spectacular views looking down the valley of nine glacier lakes in the Namusangi valley.
Distance: 6.8 km
Time: 4 to 5 hours
Altitude: 3,380 to 4,200 m
Camp: 3
Day 8: Kachope Lakes
Today’s trail offers spectacular scenery of the main peaks ahead where on a clear day you can see Mt Stanley, Mt Speke in the centre and Mt Baker. On the right one can see McConnell’s Prong named after a British explorer and geologist. The view is awesome!! The Kachope Lakes area is one of the three known areas where on a misty day one may catch a rare glimpse of the Rwenzori leopard. Little research has been done on this animal, yet it thought to be rarer than the snow leopard, which has gained so much attention in recent years. After passing Kachope Lakes we climb to Camp four at 4,006 meters.
Distance: 6 km
Time: 5 to 6 hours
Altitude: 4,030 to 4,450 m
Camp: “4”
Day 9: To Scott Elliot Pass
Today is a relatively easy walk past Kitandara Lakes and climb through Scott Elliott pass to our camp situated right on the pass with fantastic views down the valley to Lake Bujuku and Mt Speke. To the south you see Kitandara Lakes and Weismanns Peak. The camp is at 4,460 meters in a flat sheltered position covered with moss where you can get a good sleep before climbing any of the peaks on Mt Stanley including Margherita and Alexandra Peaks.
Distance: 4.1 km
Time: 3 to 5 hours
Altitude: 4,006 to 4,333 m
Camp: “5”
Day 10: Margherita Peak
It is best to get up at 3am have a quick cup of coffee or tea and some light high-energy snacks and set off by 3.30am. It takes about one and a half hours to reach Elena hut (4,540m) which we bypass on the way to the peaks. After Elena, the climb is steep but firm underfoot as you are walking on hard rock. You reach the edge of the glacier at 4,765 meters where you will need to put on crampons and harnesses at set distances. Although there are few crevices, the guide will lead the way as one never knows. The scenery is spectacular and as you start to reach the upper areas of the glacier and the saddle between the two peaks Alexandra and Margherita, the sun will just be peeking over the horizon giving the chance of fantastic photographs of the two main peaks. You then reach the upper weather station (4,830 meters) where you climb down a ladder onto the upper glacier leading to Margherita Peak.
First you climb up the glacier to a small saddle between Alexandra and Margherita Peaks at 5,025 meters where you scramble up a steep rocky climb to the main peak. At times the rocks are covered with snow and ice and may be slippery but mostly it is firm rock. The exhilaration of reaching the top is enormous as you look across Albert Peak to the DRC (Congo) then east across the spectra of the Rwenzori Mountains. After enjoying the scenery and signing the book, you descend using the same path down to Camp 5.
Distance: 3.5 km
Time: 3 – 5 h up & 2-3 h down
Altitude: 4,460 to 5,109 m
Camp: “5”
Day 11: Heading back to Camp 3
After a good breakfast, you walk from Camp 5 down to Camp 4 which takes a couple of hours passing through Scott Elliot Pass. After a short break at Camp 4 there is a rather tough climb of 450 meters to pass over Bamwanjara Pass then down to Camp 3 at 4,030 meters while crossing the pass you get the chance to see hyrax sitting at the entrance to their rock shelter warming in the midday sun. Their main predator is the Rwenzori Leopard Panthera (pardusruwenzorii). The leopard has been heavily poached in the past and there are few left. However, on rare occasions, on a misty or overcast day you may be lucky to see one briefly as they move between the rocks.
Distance: 10.1 km
Time: 5 to 7 hours
Altitude: 4,460 to 3,985 m
Camp: “3”
Day 12: Peat Bogs to Mutinda Camp
Today the trail descends via the Namusangi Valley across open Moreland and large areas of tussock grass. As this is a valley floor, it is relatively flat and water from further up the mountains sweeps across the moors making the going wet and boggy. In fact, it is not soil but layers and layers of compressed tussock grass which over the years have transformed to peat. It is a good idea to have rubber boots for this section although occasionally you may find that your foot sinks deeper than the height of a rubber boot.
You continue down the valley passing several small waterfalls and moss-covered valleys until reaching the steep rocky section above Mutinda with fantastic views of Mutinda Peaks directly ahead. We turn left just before the river drops over a sheer cliff to the Mutinda Valley. The walking trail descends several steep slopes to the valley floor. Here you will again cross the river before climbing to the Mutinda Rock Shelter. Although very beautiful, this section can be tiresome as you scramble over huge boulders on your climb to Mutinda. Big tents have placed under the rock shelter-large enough for 80 to 100 people to take shelter from the weather. Distance: 5.8 km
Time: 4 to 6 hours
Altitude: 3,688 m
Camp: Mutinda
Day 13: To Kalalama Camp
In the morning you may decide to take the option of climbing to the top of Mutinda Lookout (3,975 meters). This takes about one hour and offers fantastic views as you stand on the moss covered peak. This climb is steep and near the top a wooden ladder has been constructed to enable you climb more easily. There is no extra charge for this option and time-wise it is easy to climb to the lookout and then walk down to Kalalama Camp. After taking in the views and unique atmosphere you then descend to the rock shelter and have a cup of tea or coffee before descending to Kalalama. This adds about two hours or more to your trek.
The walk down to Kalalama follows mainly down a rocky river where in places you are required to rock hop down alongside the stream. The atmosphere is truly unique as the valley is closed in and often misty creating the ideal environment for mosses and lichens. As you near Kalalama Camp you will pass though a flat valley dotted with Giant Lobelia. Some say this is one of the most beautiful sections of the entire trip. You will overnight in Kalalama Camp which is perched on a high ridge overlooking the Kilembe valley and Kasese town.
Distance: 4.2 km
Time: 3 to 5 hours
Altitude: 3,975 m (Lookout)
Camp: Kalalama
Day 14: Descent to Trailhead
Descend down through the bamboo forests which at times get boggy and slippery due to the mass of fallen leaves. During the wet season you will cross to the ridge, climbing to Samalira camp as the river above Musenge Rock Shelter may be very deep and fast flowing. During the dry season you will continue directly down the ridge to Musenge shelter and down to the rangers post. After debriefing, we sign off and walk down to Trekkers Hostel. Some fast walkers have descended to the rangers post by midday however the majority of people arrive at the rangers post around 1pm. Enjoy a peaceful afternoon!
Distance: 11.6 Km
Time: 4 to 6 hours
Accommodation: Trekkers Hostel
Days 15 – 17: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park
Your drive from Bwindi Lodge to Mweya Safari Lodge may take six hours but as you drive through the open savannah of Acacia on the edge of the Albertine Rift valley of Ishasha plains, be on the lookout for a pride of tree-climbing lions that have made an old fig their regular ‘hangout’.
Set on a peninsular overlooking the kazinga Channel, Mweya safari Lodge consists of a series of thatch luxurious suites that are individually decorated in an eclectic style. Sundowners are taken on the airy veranda or by the pool and meals at communal tables in the dining room. Your days here start early as you set off in the cool of the morning to look for game like lion, elephants, buffaloes, Ugandan kob and antelope on the Kasenyi plains while the dense thickets of the Mweya peninsula is the ideal hiding spot for notoriously shy leopard.
On your final afternoon, you will cruise the Kazinga Channel, which flows between Lakes George and Edward. One of the continent’s densest concentrations of hippo lives here, as well as large numbers of elephants, crocodiles and water birds like African fish eagles and pelicans.
Optional activity: Hot Air Balloon Safari:
Experience the wildlife of Queen Elizabeth np in a new, unique way. Wake up early to catch the sunrise, as you silently fly over the plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Admire the herds of buffaloes, elephants and enjoy the serene tranquility of the African bush…
You will take off early at dawn for a flight that lasts for approximately 1 hour. Rise as the suns rises and float in whatever direction the winds of the morning take you. Fly higher than the trees and hills and enjoy the best of Uganda, with many great photo opportunities of the scenery and wildlife below.
After a smooth landing you can celebrate this amazing adventure with a glass of sparkling juice before returning to your lodge to continue your safari.
Costing: $380 us dollar p.p.
Optional activity: Lion Tracking:
For visitors who yearn to get up close to wild African fauna, a research trip is a rewarding adventure. This new and unique experience allows visitors to actively participate in monitoring some of lions in the park, using locator devices and learn habituation calls, as well as monitoring weather, surroundings and behavior. The results are added to researchers’ databases, contributing valuable information to the overall understanding of wildlife ecology – and helping to conserve this wonderful ecosystem. This will as well gives you a 95% chance to see the lions!
The number of people on each outing is limited in order to reduce stress on the animals and to increase the quality of the experience for visitors.
The experiential tourism activities currently available are Mongoose Tracking, Lion Tracking, Hippo Census, and Bird Counts. The number of people on each outing is limited in order to reduce stress on the animals and to increase the quality of the experience for visitors.
Experiential tours lasts between one and three hours. They usually take place in the early morning or evening, or occasionally at night. All activities must be booked through the Visitor Information Centre in Mweya at least 24 hours in advance.
– See more at: http://www.ugandawildlife.org/explore-our-parks/parks-by-name-a-z/queen-elizabeth-national-park/activities/item/71-experiential-tours#sthash.cFY8QRZI.dpuf
Costing: $85 us dollar p.p.
Day 18: Goodbye Uganda
After 18 days of trekking gorillas, enjoying the antics of queen Elizabeth National Park wildlife and immersing yourself into hiking snow capped Mt. Ruwenzori, it is time to bid farewell to Uganda. From cassia lodge, you will be driven to Entebbe, where your unforgettable adventure first began.
This marks the end of what we hope will be an adventurous trip- Thank you very much!!
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Itineraries
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Safari minibuses cars, four wheel drive vehicles or coaches will be provided according to the route and number of participants. The right is reserved to employ the services of subcontractors. Multi-lingual chauffer/guides are provided. Occasional mechanical problems, changes of lodge or adverse road conditions may in turn lead to a change of routing or game viewing without prior notice being given. We reserve the right to offer substitutes of equal value or to cancel the operation of any tour. In practice, very few itineraries are affected but a little flexibility on your part will ensure the tour is unique and rewarding.
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