Itinerary

1. Day 1: Kilembe (1,450m) - Kalalama Camp (3147m)

   • Meet your tour guide and start from the ranger's post and head straight to the Rwenzori national park entrance point into this park; this will mark the official beginning of this hike. This walk takes you to the mountain forest zone where you might encounter species of monkeys like the colobus monkeys and the blue monkeys, then birds like the Rwenzori Turaco. 
   • Proceed and reach Sine camp, where you will have a stopover and enjoy your lunch and other refreshments. 
   • Reach the first overnight camp at Kalalama, which sits at 3,147 m. 
   • Spend the first night at this camp in the cabins where you will be served dinner, get briefed about what will transpire the following day and then sleep over.

2. Day 2: Kalalama Camp (3.147m) - Mutinda Camp (3.688 m)

   • Set off for this hike to see you pass through the bamboo-mimulopsis zone, a steep climb with many high steps. You will reach a resting point where you will have tea and some refreshments. 
   • Proceed along the heather zone, passing several streams and waterfalls, all covered by the typical green moss vegetation. You will see a lot of Giant Heather trees, sometimes in a misty atmosphere. Kalalama Camp Rwenzori Safari Camps at Mountain Rwenzori The arrival point of the day is Mutinda Camp, at 3.688 m, named after the Mutinda Peaks. 
   • From this point, climb further to Mutinda Lookout, 3.925 m, about one hour and a half walk plus one hour to descend back to the camp. The place is worth visiting as you stand on moss-covered rocks with views across the Rwenzori Mountains, down to Kasese town and Lake George.
   • Reach this camp late in the evening and check into the cabins overnight for dinner. You will be briefed about the following day and then retire to your beds.

3. Day 3: Mutinda Camp - Bugata Camp (4.062 m)

   • Still on the hike to the peak, day 3 of this trip will begin at precisely 9 Am straight away and go through the boggy terrain with the typical wet vegetation and tussocks. You enter the Alpine vegetation zone with the presence of the giant lobelias (Lobelliagibberoa), the groundsel (Senecio adnivalis) and the everlasting flowers as you cross the Mutinda valley. 
   • Climb a steep section up to Namusangi Valley (3.840 m), from where you will enjoy the best view of the MutindaPeaks.Along the Namusangi Valley, you cross various bogs as you climb to Bugata Camp at 4.062 m which is the arrival point of the day. 
   • Have a view of the Weisman’s Peak of Mount Luigi of Savoy, often covered by the snow. The vegetation area is covered with tussock grass, everlasting flowers, giant groundsel and giant lobelia. Kalalama Camp Rwenzori Safari Camps at Mountain Rwenzori This walk takes you via lake Kitandara, stretching up to the Democratic Republic of Congo. From the nearby Plozza Rock, you will get fantastic views of nine lakes down the valley and Lake Nusuranja. Bugata Camp has good facilities with solar lights, eco-toilets and a bathroom.
   • Have dinner and spend the night. You will be briefed about the following day and then retire to your cabins for the night.

4. Day 4: Bugata Camp - Hunwick’s Camp (3.974 m)

   • Wake up and have your breakfast and begin on the hike to almost the epitome of this hike that started four days ago. 
   • Start your hike to climb up Bamwanjara Pass. The trail climbs steadily with several long flat bogs. You look back to see the glacial lakes far down in the valley as you climb. On reaching the top of Banwamjara Pass (4.450n), you get excellent views of all the prominent snowcapped peaks, where we have a small shelter for you to rest and enjoy the scenery. This walk leads you down to lower and upper Kachope lake, which is steep and often very muddy but offers fantastic views of Kachope Lakes and McConnell’s Prong. Hunwick’s Camp (3,974m) is the arrival point of the day. The Camp is set on a ridge overlooking snowcapped Mt Baker.

5. Day 5: Hunwick’s Camp - Margherita Camp (4,485 m.)

   • Enjoy the most important walk of this hike to the Margherita camp, which will be followed by making it to the summit the following day. This is a walk along the ridge before crossing several wet areas, and small rivers from Mt Baker and Fresh fields Pass. The walk up Scott Elliott Pass is enjoyable as you climb through the pass and up the ridge of Mt Stanley to Margherita Camp at 4,485 meters below Elena Hut of the Rwenzori mountaineering services. A ring of high rocks shelters it, and it is the original camp used by the Italian Prince Luigi Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi. You have great views of Mt Baker, Scott Elliot Pass and some of the high glaciers on Mt Stanley. The day’s hike to this camp is 4.2 kilometres.
   • Reach there late in the evening and relax a little bit. Then you will prepare and go through what will transpire the following summiting day. So this exercise will entail preparing the ropes, the hiking shoes, ice-breaking axes, and crampons. So you will pass through how to use this equipment and attires. Then you will retire to your cabins for a night.

6. Day 6: Hunwick's Camp

   • This is the D-day of this hike, and it will turn out to be the longest and most hectic day yet the most sought after the day on this entire hike. So this day will entail waking up as early as 3 AM and having your breakfast. So you will set off at precisely 4 AM hiking to Margherita peak of Mt Stanley. This early movement aims to make it through the glacier before sunrise as the sunshine makes the glacier impassable as it melts. 
   • Climb up Margherita glacier, which is steep and requires that you are fit. On getting near to the top of the glacier, you then climb around an exposed section of rock, which is also bolted and roped, to get on the ridge running up to the top of Margherita Peak (5.109 m). 
   • Enjoy the scenery of almost the whole coun5ry as you are now at the highest point in the country. You will eat the special food package that you carried from day one at the starting point.

7. Day 7: Descend back to the Ranger post

   • Wake up to the shrill calls of the Ruwenzori Turaco (Ruwenzorornis johnstoni) and other birds. After breakfast, you walk down the valley, home to many birds that dive in and out of the thick vegetation. Chameleons are common as they crawl along the branches of the thick vegetation feeding on insects. You may catch a glimpse of a Duiker quietly feeding in the clear areas, surrounded by Giant Lobelias and various flowering plants.
   • Descend a few kilometres, and you climb two hundred metres height to a ridge overlooking the valley before crossing several small valleys and streams to Kyalavula. 
   • Walk back to the Base Camp, from where you will be awarded your Rwenzori hiking certificate, and this will mark the end of this mesmerising hike. Rwenzori Kilembe Trail.