For this 5 Day Mountain Rwenzori Hiking, trekking & climbing for speedy travelers and strong travelers that can make it to the peak of Mountain Rwenzori using the Rwenzori Mountains Central Circuit, to explore the various peaks, this hike takes you up to the top of Mount Stanley in the fastest way possible. This 5-Day Mountain Rwenzori Hiking can only be done by mountaineers who are healthy, strong, fast, and fit because you will be moving fast and covering long distances each day.
Summary
Day 1: Start the hike from Kayanjuki at 1,450 meters to Sine Hut at 2,596 meters
Day 2: Hike from Sine Camp to Mutinda Camp
Day 3: Hike from Mutinda Camp to Kiharo Camp at 3,380 meters
Day 4: Hike from Kiharo camp to Samalira camp at 3174meters
Day 5: Climb down from Samalira Camp to Kilembe base camp in Kasese
Day 1: Start the hike from Kayanjuki at 1,450 meters to Sine Hut at 2,596 meters
After breakfast, your guide/driver will take you to the park ranger post for briefing and then start by hiking up the valley floor through tall forest trees of the Afro Montane Forest Zone. This hike is interesting with multitudes of birds and a chance to see some primates scampering off through the forest, if you are lucky, you may get the opportunity to see a L’Hoest monkey. On this hike expect to see different types of plant species from forest trees to bamboo thickets and many shrubs and flowers, you will also enjoy Enock’s Falls which is just 200 meters from Sine Hut. Dinner and overnight at Sine Camp
Day 2: Hike from Sine Camp to Mutinda Camp
After breakfast at around 7:30 am start the hike that takes you through Bamboo-Mimulopsis area, when you reach in the bamboo zone, it is steep hiking on high steps and also in case it rains during the hike it can be slippery and muddy which makes the hike slow but all in all, I must say that the atmosphere up there in the forest is really beautiful as you hike 551m altitude and a distance of 1.8km and hike up to Kalalama Camp at 3,147 meters, this area is in the Heather Rapanea Zone, have a stopover for tea or coffee, after a hike up to Mutinda Camp.
Mutinda Camp is near a small river that drops off a waterfall and offers the opportunity to refresh and relax, hike up to the top of the Mutinda Lookout, here you will have an amazing view across the Rwenzori Mountains, Kasese town and Lake George, this viewing point stands at 3,925 meters. Dinner and overnight at Mutinda Camp.
Day 3: Hike from Mutinda Camp to Kiharo Camp at 3,380 meters
After morning breakfast continues with the hike starting from summit Mutinda peaks, hike up past to Kiharo Camp at 3,380 meters. You can as well go for an optional spot of rock climbing after going for dinner and overnight at Kiharo Camp
Day 4: Hike from Kiharo camp to Samalira camp at 3174meters
Hike down to Samalira camp, today’s hike takes only about 3 to 4hours of climbing down through the giant heather trees which make up most of the vegetation all way from Kiharo to Samalira, This trail is a flat and easy climbing down for about 2 hours with amazingly beautiful views of river Nyamwamba and after the climb up a ridge for 40 minutes before sloping down to Samalira camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Climb down from Samalira Camp to Kilembe base camp in Kasese
After breakfast today you will climb down from Samalira through the Bamboo-Mimulopsis Zone, Afro Montane Forest Zone, and to Kilembe base camp in Kasese, from here you can connect to nearby Queen Elisabeth National Park or drive back to Entebbe /Kampala.