6-Day Mount Elgon Hiking

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Transfer from Kampala to Mount Elgon National Park

After breakfast in Kampala city, you will depart the city with your guide and drive to eastern Uganda. This journey will take 8 hours covering about 229km. En route you will stop at Mabira Forest Reserve, take a short nature walk to see butterflies, monkeys or zip line in the sky. Proceed via Jinja for enroute lunch; continue through Mbale town arriving at Budadiri tourism centre.

Main Destination:

Mount Elgon

Accommodation:

Lacam Lodge

• Budget lodge located less than 1hr drive from Mt Elgon

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Budadiri to Sasa River Camp

Early morning after breakfast, you will be given time to arrange hiking gears
or hire porters and then start walking towards Sasa river camp at (2,900
meters above sea level). You will traverse montane and enter bamboo
forests at Sasa river camp for dinner and overnight. It will take about 8 hours
of hiking to cover an 8 km trail.

Main Destination:

Mount Elgon

Accommodation:

Sasa River Camp

• Budget banda

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Walk from Sasa River Camp to Mude Camp

After breakfast at Sasa River Camp, you shall hike for 4-5 hours through the bamboo to the starting zone of heath and moorlands reaching Mude camp at 3,500 meters above sea level. Have dinner and overnight. Along the trail views of the vegetation provide photo opportunities.

Main Destination:

Mount Elgon

Accommodation:

Mude Cave Camp

• Budget located on Mt Elgon

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Climbing from Mude Camp to Wagagai Peak

After your breakfast, start hiking towards the summit of Wagagai peak, this trail may take 7-8 hours of hiking through heath and moorlands to the highest peak (4,321 meters above sea level). After reaching the summit, walk to the caldera with beautiful views of eastern Uganda and western Kenya. You will eat your lunch from the summit and after return back to Mude camp for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Mount Elgon

Accommodation:

Mude Cave Camp

• Budget located on Mt Elgon

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Mude camp back to Budadiri

Today you will descend back to Budadiri tourism centre where you will return hired camping gears and then after lunch transfer to the nearby Sipi waterfalls in Kapchorwa district. Sipi waterfalls consist of three levels of natural waterfalls falling over a 95-meter rock cliff to create cool breeze around the area. The place is very beautiful being on the foothills of Mt Elgon, there are birds, monkeys and coffee plantations. Walking trails will enable you to access the waterfalls with your guide. Later
check in at Sipi River lodge for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Mount Elgon

Accommodation:

Sipi River Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located at Sipi Falls (Highlight)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Transfer back to Entebbe

After breakfast, drive back to Kampala via Mbale and Jinja towns with enroute lunch. Depending on your interests, you will be dropped either in Kampala to Entebbe airport for departure.

Main Destination:

Entebbe (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.