Program of trekking in the Rwenzori Mountains Central Circuit Trail - 10 days 9 nights - Tour Code UG015
Day 1
On arrival at Entebbe International Airport you will be transferred to Kampala for dinner and overnight at Hotel Africana or Ivys Hotel.
Day 2
From Kampala head for the Rwenzori mountains. Lunch in Mbarara. Dinner and overnight at Ibanda, Tour Holiday Inn.
Day 3 Stage 1: From Nyakalengija to Nyabitaba Hut, 2.652 m.
From the Rwenzori Mountains National Park Head Quarter at Nyakalengija, 1.646 m., you will receive the briefing from the guides, there's a possibility of hiring equipment. The hike go through the plantations and homes of the Bakonjo, the natives of the mountain area, gradually reaching garden plots and elephants grass. You follow the Mobuku river, until you cross the Mahoma river. The trail passes through an open bracken fern slopes and Podorcarpus Forest, up to Nyabitaba Hut, 2.652 m., which is the arrival point for the day. This will take from 5 to 6 hours. From the location, you are facing the North of the Portal Peaks, 4.627 m. and in front Mount Kyniangoma. During the day, you might see monkeys, the Rwenzori Turaco and hearing the chimpanzees.
 Day 4 Stage 2: From Nyabitaba Hut to John Matte Hut, 3.414 m.
From Nyabitaba Hut you cross the Kurt Shaffer Bridge, through a muddy area along the Mubuku river. Then the trail climbs up through the bamboo forest. You reach a steep rocky area, which leads to Nyamuleju Hut. This point marks the start of the giant lobelia and groundsel zone. You proceed through a bog full of typical plants along the Bujuku river. The final point is John Matte Hut, 3.414 m. for spending the night. From Nyabitaba Hut to John Matte it can take approximately 6 hours. Enjoy the view of Mount Stanley and snow capped Margherita and Elena Peaks.
Day 5 Stage 3: From John Matte Hut to Bujuku Hut, 3.962 m
From John Matte Hut you cross the Bujuku River and enter the lower Bigo bog, a grassy bog where you experience how to jump from tussock to tussock. You reach Bigo Hut and enter the upper Bigo bog, proceeding to Lake Bujuku, where it is starting the alpine savannah zone of little vegetation. You finally arrive at Bujuku Hut, 3.962 m. This day's hike can take up to 5 hours. There you have a view on the peaks of Mount Stanley, Mount Baker and Mount Speke.
Day 6 Stage 4: From Bujuku Hut to Elena Hut, 4.540 m.
From Bujuku Hut you climb through moss draped groundsel vegetation, to Scott Elliot Pass, 4.372 m., between Mt. Baker and Stanley. Here you divert to Elena Hut, 4.540 m. for overnight before climbing Mt. Stanley.
Day 7 Stage 5 From Kitandara Hut to Guy Yeoman Hut, 3.261 m.
From Elena Hut you ascend the last tract of rock and ice which leads to Margherita Peak on Mt. Stanley, 5.109 m. About 3 hours to complete the climbing. The peak was first climbed by the Duke of Abruzzi at 9.30am on 18th June 1.906. After you descend to Upper Kitandara lake and through thick mud to Lower Kitandara lake where Kitandara Hut is located, 4.023 m. 3 more hours to complete the hike. From Kitandara Hut you proceed to Mount Baker or Mount Luigi di Savoia and the Vittorio Sella peak. Enjoy the view of Mt. Luigi di Savoia.
Day 8 Stage 6: From Kitandara Hut to Guy Yeoman Hut, 3.261 m.
From Lake Kitandara you climb to Freshfield Pass, 4.282 m., a long flat of high alpine mossy glades, before descending the circuit among rocky and boggy areas. The panorama is dominated by the glaciers of Mounts Stanley and Baker and Mount of Savoy. A muddy trail leads to Akendahi, Bujongolo and Kabamba rock shelters, where starts the Kabamba valley down to Guy Yeoman Hut, 3.261 m. This can take up to 6 hours. The hut is surrounded by a beautiful landscape of mountains, vegetations and rivers.
Day 9 Stage 7: From Guy Yeoman Hut back to Nyakalengija
Finally you descent back to Nyakalengija. The trail goes along the valley of the Mobuku and Kichuchu rivers, rich in plants and flowers of the heather zone before reaching the bamboo forest. See Kabamba falls on the way. Time to reach Nyabitaba Hut is about 4 hours. From Nyabitaba you start the 40 minutes trail to see Lake Mahoma and back before descending to the Park Head Quarter. The trail takes 2 to 3 hours. Transfer to Kasese for dinner and overnight at Margherita Hotel.
Day 10
Drive back to Kampala
The price includes:
- Full board and meals during the hike
- -Accommodation in huts and hotels
- -Transfer with 4x4 Land Cruiser or minibus
- -Guide and porters, cook
- -Park Entrance fees
- -Rescue fees
- The price excludes:
- -Flight and tourist insurance
- -Equipment for the hike
- -Alcohol, tips, cigarettes, laundry
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