8-Day Adventures Safari Hiking Mt Elgon - Extinct Volcano

Package Overview

2858 per person for 8 people sharingInsurance, tips, laundry services, beverages/Drinks, International flights, visas, personal insurance, drinks, tips, laundry, telephone, cigarettes, Items of a personal nature,-Optional activities and any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary16-0631-12

Day wise Itinerary

• Day 1 : Arrival

  Arrive Entebbe airport. Meet, greet and transfer to Boma Guest House in Entebbe overnight (BB)
• Day 2 : Entebbe to Mbale

  After breakfast your tour guide will pick you from the Hotel. You will head to eastern Uganda. Pass through Sezibwa fall enjoy the scenery of the waterfalls, traditional healers shrine, top of the falls. You can either have a lunch break in Jinja or Mbale in one of the Hotels; Drive eastwards to Sipi Falls enjoy the scenic waterfalls and the cave that Idi Amin Dada is said to have held a meeting with his ministers. Drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight in Sipi Falls Rest.
• Day 3 : To Piswa Patrol Camp (2850m)

  After an early breakfast drive on murram roads to Kapkwata (2190m). At this ranger station meet the rangers and porters and start to hike the Piswa Trail. Take a gentle climb through a cultivated area until you reach the Park with its Podocarpus forest, dotted with a large host of monkeys and birds. (FB)
• Day 4 : Piswa Patrol - Hunters Cave (3870m).

  After breakfast start the long, steep climb to this Cave located below the rim of the caldera, set up the tents and enjoy beautiful landscape covered with giant groundsels; lunch box enroute. Return to your accommodation enjoy dinner watch the stars - particularly Milky Way which is clearly visible in the sky. You will need a warm clothes the area is freezing cold, sometimes with temperatures below freezing point.
• Day 5 : Hunters Cave to Mude Cave Camp (3500m)

  Have your hot tea / coffee go for a short climb to the rim of the caldera and enjoy its splendid view. On a clear day, you will have a clear view highest peaks on the Uganda/Kenya border. Embark on a long trek through a boggy area within the crater, covered with many streams and rivers; the trail will lead you to the hot springs, at this point you will be on the Kenyan border. Relax your feet in the warm water at 48o C - before you join Sasa Trail through the middle of the giant calder while enjoying your lunch. Enjoy the volcanic landscape and thousands of giant groundsels, occasionally spotting dykers and/or hyrax. Reach the southwest rim of the exhilarating caldera and descend to Mude Cave Camp for overnight (FB).
• Day 6 : (Mude Cave Camp) - Wagagai Peak (4321m)

  After breakfast go for an early breakfast back up to the mountain, carry a small back-pack! This will be a short climb trek directly to Wagagai Peak (4321m), the second highest in Uganda after Rwenzoris' Margherita at 5,109m; the trek here is gentle ascent of about three hours and you are already at the summit. Lunch enroute as you enjoy the beautiful view from the top, particularly of crater and the Kenyan side. For those who do not wish to climb Jackson Summit, a more restful day walking from Wagagai Peak back to Mude Camp and on to Sasa River Camp for dinner and overnight.
  For those who can, depending on altitude sickness, climb Jackson Summit (4165m). This last section is rather steep and ropes and crampons may be required for climbing over loose, huge rocks. Return on a straight trail to Mude Cave Camp, collect equipment left there and descend to Sasa River Camp, directly overlooking the Sasa River in the middle of the luxuriant afro-montane forest. The trail down can be muddy and slippery so you need to be well-balanced! (FB)
• Day 7 : Wagagai Peak - Budadiri Ranger Station (1250m)

  Take a long, steep and very slippery way downhill, passing the "Wall of Death". At a distance, view the beautiful terraced hills surrounding the mountain. Walk through villages and shambas, with children waving you on! Proceed to Budadiri Ranger Station (1250m). Drive to Mbale Resort Hotel or Sipi River Lodge for lunch and overnight (FB).
• Day 8 : Mbale to Entebbe International Airport

  After breakfast, return to Entebbe Airport; visit Bujagali Falls on the other end of the Nile on your way. Arrive Kampala in mid-afternoon for lunch and transfer to the airport in time for your flight.
  
  End of the safari.

Inclusions

• Transfers

Exclusions

• Insurance, tips, laundry services, beverages/Drinks, International flights, visas, personal insurance, drinks, tips, laundry, telephone, cigarettes, Items of a personal nature,-Optional activities and any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary

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• Kampala, Uganda, Africa

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• Ntinda, Kampala, Uganda
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