Jewel SafarisCompany
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9 DAYS HIKING SAFARI (RWENZORI)
Day One: ARRIVAL AT ENTEBBE AIRPORT.
Arrive at Entebbe airport. You will then transfer to Kasese through Mbarara and make a stop for lunch at Lake View Hotel Mbarara. The journey will take you along L. Victoria on a tarmac road to Mbarara. From here, the landscape changes to a hilly and fertile area with tea and banana plantations. Dinner and overnight at the Rwenzori Base Camp Guest House.
Day Two: FIRST DAY TREK.
Wake up early morning and have breakfast then transfer to the Rwenzori Mountains National Park Head Quarter at Nyakalengija for briefing by the guides, and there is a possibility of hiring some equipments. The hike starts through the plantations and homes of the Bakonjo, the people of the mountain, gradually reaching garden plots and elephants grass. You follow the Mobuku River, until crossing the Mahoma River. The trail passes through an open bracken fern slopes and Podorcarpus Forest up to Nybitaba Hut, which is the arrival point for the day. This will take 5 to 6 hours. At this point, you will be facing the North of the Portal Peaks, 4.627 m and this is in front of Mount Kyniangoma. During the day, you may be able to see monkeys, the Rwenzori Turaco and hearing the chimpanzees. Dinner and overnight at the Rwenzori Base Camp Guest House.
Day Three: Nybitaba Hut 2650m – John Matte Hut 3380m
You will descend the ridge to the Mubuku River then climb through bamboo forest then proceed towards John Matte Hut (3380m). The afternoon is tiring, ascending along the north side of the Bujuku River through giant heather forest. This takes one to two hours. Dinner and overnight at the Rwenzori Base Camp Guest House.
Day Four: John Matte Hut (3380m) – Bujuku Hut 3972m
You will trek from John Matte Hut (3380m) to Bujuku Hut (3977m). Here you encounter the first of notorious bogs for which the Uganda approach to the peaks is famous. Cross the Bigo Bog and Lake Bujuku. Look for the ‘everlasting flower' known to remain on the plants for 40-years! Dinner and overnight at the Rwenzori Base Camp Guest House.
Long Safaris With Jewel
Jewel safaris offers adventurous long safaris and group tours, cultural safari primate watching, wildlife animals, outdoor adventure, game viewing,
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Despite the Hot East African temperature, Uganda Kenya Tanzania and Rwanda have remained true adventure tours and wildlife safaris destinations. Located at the approximate centre of the continent, East Africa attracts a variety of birds species, wild animals like lions, elephants, great apes like Gorillas and Chimpanzees - some of the most amazing primates in the world, tourism attraction sites like the mightly River Nile and the exciting Murchison falls.
Uganda is the richest country for birds in Africa. It has almost half the species known on the African continent and over 10% of those recorded throughout the entire world. Over 1,000 species of birds have been recorded to exist in the country. Some of the exciting species you will view include birds of water and land shore, birds of scrub and woodland, forest birds and birds of the open plain.
Besides the birding, while in Uganda, ensure to take the adventurous Mountain gorilla tracking and Chimpanzee trekking in some of the Ugandan rainforests, nature walking to the Semliki Hotsprings, and a visit to the Cultural sites in Uganda where you will be provided with the most details of the Uganda food culture and family culture of Ugandan people. Of course, a wildlife tour in any of the Uganda national parks is another out door activity that can not be skipped.
All Jewel safaris Long itinerary packages for Luxury tours, budget safaris or group tours are memorable and exciting regardless of your date for starting the safari or your time of arrival, and areas of travel that you wish to go to. Jewel safaris' travel guide will always offer a small tour briefing and will be available for all your additional inquiries, while you are on the safari.
Day Five: Bujuku Hut 3900m- Elena Hut 4541m
From Bujuku Hut you climb through moss draped groundsel vegetation, to Scott Elliot pass between Mt. Baker and Stanley. Here you divert to Elena Hut and spend the night before climbing Mt. Stanley.
Day Six: Fifth Day.
Early morning traverse of the Elena glacier to the Stanley Plateau where crampons may be required. Cross in a NW direction and follow the Margherita glacier and cross to the summit (3 hours). Descend to Elena Hut and after you descend to Upper Kitandara Lake and through thick mud to Lower Kitandara Lake where Kitandara Hut is located 4.023 m. Time to complete the hike is about 3 hours and more. From Kitandara Hut you can proceed and climb Mount Baker or Mount Luigi di Savoia and the peak Vittorio Sella. Enjoy the view of Mt. Luigi di Savoia.
Day Seven: Kitandara Hut - Guy Yeoman Hut, 3.261 m.
From Lake Kitandara, you will climb to Fresh field 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 the Kabamba valley starts down to Guy Yeoman Hut, 3.261 m. This takes up to 6 hours. The hut is surrounded by a beautiful landscape of mountains, vegetations and rivers.
Day Eight: Guy Yeoman Hut - Nybitaba hut.
Move very steeply alongside the Mubuku River, past Kichuchu, another rock shelter and join our original route near the confluence of the Bujuku River, the journey takes one to two hours.
Day Nine: Nybitaba- Nyakalengija base camp for overnight.
Descend steeply off the ridge and enter the warm rainforest. Look for the tropical forest birds and monkeys. Drive back to Entebbe with lunch on the way for either return flight.
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BIRDING
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PRIMATES/PARKS
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CHIMPS/GORILLAS
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FISHING/CULTURAL
