10 Days Rwenzori Mountain Climb Tour
fromRwenzori climbing fees include 2 porters per person, guide, park fees, rescue and accommodation, mattresses, food, and gas cooker. One cook is assigned to each group of 4 people, porters take a maximum of 25kg per climber (12.5kg per porter), transport to and from the Rwenzoris. Climbing price does not include cost of climbing equipment, and sleeping bags which climbers have to come with their own. You can hire the climbing equipment like crampon, ice axe, rope, crambons, etc at $25 each item.
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Vacation Style Holiday Type
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Africa
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Mountain
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Rural
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Activity Level Extreme
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Group Size Medium Group
The Rwenzoris, or the Mountains of the Moon, have a celebrated beauty. Shrouded almost perpetually in mist, they have a seducing, eerie quality that led to many wondrous tales about them through the ages.
The mountains – about 120 km long – were forced up during the creation of the Great Rift Valley. At the centre of the range are six peaks with permanent snow, three with glaciers. The highest mountain in the range, Mount Stanley, can only be reached by experienced trekkers. Its peak, Margherita, the third highest in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, rises to 5,109m above sea level.
A hike through the lower, central Rwenzori needs about five days; ascent of the peaks requires a further two days and is only for the really fit, and needs proper equipment (Please ask for details).
Price includes:
- 1 Night African Roots Guest House
- 1 Night at Margherita Hotel, Kasese
- 2 Nights at Nyabitaba Hut
- 1 Night at John Matte
- 1 Night at Bujuku Hut
- 1 Night at Ellena Hut
- 1 Night at Kitandara Hut
- 1 Night at Guy Yeoman Hut
- Local guide fee
- A mountain guide
- 2 porters for you. Porters carry a maximum of 12.5kg each (total 25kg per person climbing, including your food, climbing equipment and all of your luggage and clothes. A maximum of 25kg per climber). All extra weight and kilos are to be paid for by the climber themselves.
- Mountain chef/cook.
- All meals while on trek, including Fuel/charcoal for burning and warming
Climbing equipment, you are also required to come with your own sleeping bags, and all personal expenditure (phone calls, cloth washing, etc) are not included.
- Pinnacle Africa offers simple medication for clients; such as medicine for head aches and pains with medicines such as panadols. But clients are advised to bring their own specialised medicine where appropriate.
- Our cost does not include Climbing equipment. We do not have ice screws, snow stakes, snow wands and carabiners for hire so it is advisable that bring this equipment if possible. There are free mattresses in the tents in the mountain, but no blankets. So climbers need to bring with them these things.
- Drinking Water
Price excludes:
- Meals in Entebbe or Kampala.
- All flight ticket for clients
- Alcoholic drinks and drinks off meal time
- Video camera and photographic fee
- Tips and laundry
- Any other expenses apart from those described above including expenditures of a personal nature such as phone calls, etc
- essential mountain climbing equipment
- Day 1: Entebbe-Kampala
- Day 2: Kampala to the Rwenzori Mountains
- Day 3: Nyakalengija trailhead (1600m) to Nyabitaba (2650m)
- Day 4: To John Matte (3350m)
- Day 5: To Bujuku (3900m)
- Day 6: To Elena (4541m)
- Day 7: Elena Hut (4541m) to the peak (5109m) or begin the descent to Kitandara (4023m)
- Day 8: To Guy Yeoman (3260m)
- Day 9: Descent to Nybitaba (2650m)
- Day 10: Descent to trailhead (1600m)
African Roots Guest House
Conveniently located close to Lake Victoria and its beach side amenities including restaurants and bars, African Roots guesthouse Entebbe offers traditional home-from-home hospitality in a comfortable, modern and tastefully designed setting. Hotel is located in a quiet suburb close to Greenfields and is just 5 minutes’ drive from Entebbe International Airport.
Margherita Hotel, Kasese
Hotel Margherita is situated some few kilometers west of Kasese town, Western Uganda in the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains otherwise known as the “Mountains of the Moon” The Hotel has been providing professional services to visitors to this beautiful part of the country since the early 1950’s when Hotel Margherita first opened its doors to visitors. Since then tourists have marvelled at the views of the Rwenzori of which the hotel has unsurpassed vantage of.
Nyabitaba Hut (2650m)
John Matte Hut (2650m)
Bujuku Hut (3900m)
Elena Hut (4541m)
Kitandara Hut (4023m)
Guy Yeoman Hut (3260m)
Nyabitaba (2650m)