9 Days Rwenzori Central Circuit Trail Hike

After a briefing by the Tranquil Kilimanjaro team about your 9 Days, Rwenzori trek via the Central Circuit Trail, you will head for Uganda’s capital city, Kampala and drive to Kasese, making a brief stop for lunch at Mbarara town which is located on the equator. This trip will have you arrive in the early afternoon at Kasese whereby you will carry out shopping for you Mount Rwenzori necessities like food and things of personal use. 

Your trekking will begin immediately after finishing the paperwork, making payments and registering at the park headquarters located at Nyakalengija _5,400 ft to 1646m). This is also where you get to meet and greet you’re your mountain crew that includes the porters and guides. This trail will follow the Mubuku River, that crosses the recent land slide areas and also need climbing over the rocks and bluffs before arriving the Mahoma River. Immediately after crossing the river, you will have a very steep hike through an open fern slopes and the podocarpus forest up to the Nyabitaba hut at 87000 ft – 2 652m.. The slow hikers can take longer, therefore you must leave the headquarters before noon in order to avoid reaching the hut before the hut.

From here, the trail will lead you west wards for 1 and half km and then continue north steeply to Kurt Shafer Bridge, as you cross below the confluence of the Bujuku and the Mubuku Rivers. You will arrive at the poor condition hut at Nyamileju and it’s also accompanied by rock shelter.you can walk to John Matte hut at 3414m which is new , comfortable, large though its muddy around the site. Many of the hikers also consider this the most tiring and the longest day of the hike there for an early start is advisable. More so, the loss of altitude to Kurf Shafer Bridge also means the total elevation to be gained on this day is at 3,000ft. The hikers who also consider reaching this point consider John Matte as a stopping point. You can also enjoy this unique vegetation with in the bog and also the great views as well as the following day beginning the return to Nyabitaba.

You will leave John Matte and cross to the Bujuku River and then enter the lower Bigo gogs. This trail is also muddy and follows the left edge of the lower Bigo hut and its shelter. You have lunch at the upper edge of Bigo near Bujuku Lake and here there is a rock shelter called Cooking pot and a shorter distance to Bujuku hut. The shaded area and the mists can make the hut of Biujuku so uncomfortable and cold for the hikers and most especially the guides and the porters with just simple blankets and light clothing’s.

Today, we continue with the circuit and then leave west from Bujuku hut to scott Elliot at 4372 m after a right hand branch that would lead you to Elena hut at 4,372m. as you depart the Elena and savoia glaciers as well as mt Baker, this trail slopes past the upper Kitandara lake thrigh the bad mud to the lower lake as well as the kitandara hut at 4,023m. the elevation to the pass from Bujuku is also modest and the downs and up double that amount. And since Scott Elliot is the most high point, therefore some hikers will be slower due to the efforts that are needed at these altitude.

You can climb from the lake at 4,292m and fresh field pass. The fresh field is a long flat navigate through the fantastic high alpine mossy glades until half an hour and the trails begin the circuit’s two day climb. The rock shelter at Bujongola and Babamba are also optional at night but is best to extend through the seeming ensless mud to the newly constructed Guy Yeomen Hut at 3,261m)

You begin very early in the morning in case you decide to go to the park headquarters as you complete the trek. The other alternative is to stay a night at Nyabitaba and each other very slowly facing the slope. From in case you are friend especially as you reach Kichuchu down the dry dusty crevice. From here, the trail matches and twice crosses the Mubuku River in deep mud until the last few kilometers of good dry trail that follow the ridge down to the Nyabitabe that completes the whole circuit. According to what has been happening with your body, you will need a comfortable bed and bath.

From Nyabitaba hut, slope to Nyakalengija , near the park headquarters, you will also meet your driver to drive back to Kasese town to your hotel or you can go to Queen Elizabeth National park and relax at the lodge.

Have breakfast and after drive to Kampala considering the flight time. And in case you stay with Queen Elizabeth, you will enjoy a game drive in the morning after you will transfer back to Kampala.