7 days -
7-day rwenzori challenge hike to mountains of the moon
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price from
$900
per adult
min person:
1
days: 7
Includes
- Porterage
- Drinking water
- Meals
- Rescue fee
- Climbing gear
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Park fees
- All Taxes/VAT
- All transportation
- All activities
- A professional driver/guide
- All accommodation
Excludes
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- International flights
- Personal items
- Tips
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Itinerary
Day: 1
Transfer to rwenzori mountains national park
Meet and greet your guide and then drive to rwenzori via fort portal. After morning breakfast. This drive gives you an opportunity to enjoy the scenic view of rwenzori mountains ranges being extremely humid area and frequently enveloped in clouds gives you the best photo opportunities. Enjoy the green hills of toro that support tea plantations, with rich cultural diversity of batooro, and arriving in this tourism city in western uganda this is where you will stop over for lunch before proceeding to the lodge for overnight.
Day: 2
hiking to kilembe trail
After morning breakfast start the hike on kilembe trail (1,450m) to kalalama (3156) atltude gain +1706m). The first day involves along steady climb through montane forest and bamboo to a camp site at kalalama in the heather zone, you will camp here which is the first day of this engaging adventure activity.
Day: 3
hiking kalalama to mutinda
After early morning breakfast walk to the second point that is mutinda about (3810m) this walk gives you an opportunity to explore and photograph the attractions of this challenging but exciting block mountain.(altitude gain +654m). The route follows the kamusoni river to a campsite at the base of the 4200m mutinda towers outcrop.
Day: 4
hiking mutinda to lake kopello overlook
Walk from mutinda and proceed to kopello overlook(4185m) (alt gain +375m) above mutinda, the trail traverses open moorland to reach a camp at the lake kopolle viewpoint, here you have fantastic view and photographs are excellent. This activity is very angaging for the mountaineers in a way that you will really love it.
Day: 5
hiking lake kopolle to mt baker base camp
Continue from lake kopolle (4185m) to mt baker base camp (4160) (alt loss -15m). A day of ups and downs skirts the flank of mt luigi da savoiato reach a camp beside a tributary of the butawu valley, all these are trails of impressive views in rwenzori mountains national park of western uganda
Day: 6
hike mountain baker base camp to mt baker
Hiking here at mt baker base camp (4160m) to mt baker (4842m) (alt gain +682m). You will be required to start up very early in the morning to climb up to the fresh field pass and mount baker before clouds obscures the views. Descend to lake kopolloor mutinda camp
Day: 7
descend from kopolle to kilembe
Descend from kopolle (a 2350 descend) or mutinda to kilembe.
Variations to mountain baker route, the kilembe trail offers shorter and longer trails. This route is superbly scenic, reaching the dramatic heather zone by the end of the first day as you drive back to entebbe with stopover for lunch en-route at the selected hotel/restaurant
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