After breakfast we check out and start the day’s adventure with a visit to the Itanda Falls. Here we shall enjoy the beautiful scenery and watch white water rafting on the thundering rapids of the river Nile. We drive via Tororo, lunch, to the Malaba border where we cross over into Kenya and drive on to Mount Elgon National park. Dinner and overnight will be at Mt Elgon Bandas.

Accommodation: Mt Elgon Bandas

Meal Plan: D B

This day is set for exploration the National Park by car and on foot. There is buffalo, elephant, leopard and several antelope species available here. The greatest attraction however are ancient caves, the largest being the Kitum. Here elephants and buffaloes visit regularly for a mineral lick. A lunch will be served at one of the scenic picnic sites before returning to the Bandas in the late afternoon. In the evening we pack our mountain gear for tomorrows cross-over hike.

Accommodation: Mt Elgon Bandas

Meal Plan: B L D

After breakfast we shall be transferred to the forest edge from where we start our hike. A 4 hours’ hike accompanied by rangers takes us to the road head at 3400m, where our crew will have pitched tents. There will be a lunch stop on the way. Dinner and overnight will be in a fly camp.

Accommodation: Fly Camp

Meal Plan: B L D

Today’s hike starts with a 4 hours walk, accompanied by Kenya Wildlife Service escorts, leading to Koitoboss (4155m), the highest peak on the Kenyan side before crossing the caldera over to Uganda. At the border we will be received by armed Ugandan Wildlife Authority Rangers who will accompany us on the Ugandan trail. Diner and overnight will be in a fly camp at the Mude Caves (3500m).

Accommodation: Mude Fly Camp

Meal Plan: B L D

This is the day of our Elgon Summit challenge hiking to Waggagai (4321m), the peak of Mt. Elgon. The trek leads along the rim of one of the world’s largest calderas as we approach the summit. Here are several of small lakes left behind by glaciers of the last ice age. We will return to Mude Caves Camp for dinner and overnight rest.

Accommodation: Mude Fly Camp

Meal Plan: B L D

Time to make the final descend. After breakfast we hike through the moorland which gives way to forest at 3000m. On the way we are likely to encounter troops of black and white colobus as well as the blue monkeys and a variety of bird species. We shall have a lunch stop on the way.  We soon enter the small scale farmlands zone and descend further on to Bumasola (1770m) in the mid-afternoon. After bidding the crew goodbye we join our driver for transfer to Mbale town. Dinner and overnight will be at the Elgon Lodge.

Accommodation: Elgon Lodge

Meal Plan: D B

After breakfast we check out of the lodge and transfer via Jinja to Kampala. Depending on our onward departure schedule we may have an optional lunch and sightseeing tour of Kampala city before being dropped off at the airport in Entebbe for departure.