
The 6 days Kilembe trail hiking to Weismanns peak takes you to one of the Rwenzori mountain ranges peaks without a glacier but worth summiting at 4,620m asl. This trek takes the Kilembe trail south of the Rwenzori mountains national park.
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe International Airport and overnight
You will be picked at the Airport and transferred to your lodge in Entebbe or Kampala for resting and an overnight.
Day 2: Transfer from Entebbe to Kasese
Early morning after breakfast, you will be transferred by our driver guide across Kampala to Kasese town for an overnight.
Day 3: Transfer from Kasese to Rwenzori mountains.
Receive briefing from the guides and start the 6 days Kilembe trail hiking to Weismanns peak.
Hike to Sine Camp at 2596 metres, the hike will take you through the tall forest trees of the Afro montane forest zone. This is a steady climb for about 6 kilometers then along a steep climb towards Sine hut. The hike will offer you lots of plant and flower species to view, birds and a chance of seeing some animal species like Columbus monkeys. Covering 9.5km approximately 5 to 6 hours of walking.
Day 4: Hike to Mutinda Camp at 3588 metres, through the Bambo and Heather-Rapanea Zone, following the trail while it meanders up and over several small knolls along a ridge top and drops down the side of the valley crossing several small streams and passing close to moss covered waterfalls with very unique beautiful plant and flower species found above 3000metres like Giant Heather trees whose trunks are covered in green moss with old man beards (Usnea lichen) hanging from the branches, approaching to Mutinda camp which is set near a small river and waterfall. In the afternoon one has an option of summiting Mutinda lookout at 3975 metres.Covering 6.1km, approximately 6 to 8 hrs of walking to Mutinda camp
Day 5: The third day takes you through the valley of amazingly unique beautiful plant species, streams and waterfalls while we head to Bugata camp at 4062 meters. the trek gets tougher and exhausting with the steep ridges,mud and boggy sections, high steps but the rewards are enormously beautiful.
Day 6: From Bugata Camp you get up early and head for the summit of Weissman’s peak at 4620 meters. After the summit you start to descend through a different route which makes the loop thus we descend down the Nyamwamba valley to Kiharo Camp at 3430 meters for the night. It’s 3.7km to the peak and a total of approximately 9km down to Kiharo camp taking 8 to 10 hours.
Day 7: Descend down hill past the moss covered rocks along rivers and beautiful forests back to the basecamp in Kilembe. 14.6km 7 to 9hrs of walking Debrief and refresh and continue to your hotel for the night.
Day 8: Transfer from Kasese to Kampala/Entebbe
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