Spectacular scenery is the main attraction for hikers on this oft-neglected and relatively undemanding mountain, but there is also a variety of forest monkeys and small antelope, along with elephant and buffalo. A checklist topping 300 birds includes many species not recorded elsewhere in Uganda. Elgon is an important watershed, and its slopes support a rich variety of altitudinal vegetation zones ranging from montane forest to high open moorland studded with the other-worldly giant lobelia and groundsel plants. Elgon is a 4,321m high extinct volcano which in prehistoric times stood taller than Kilimanjaro does today. Although the mountain straddles the Kenya border, its loftiest peak, Wagagai, lies within Uganda and is best ascended from the Uganda side.

DAY 1: ARRIVAL AT THE AIRPORT.

Depending on your time of arrival, you can do a tour OF Kampala city tour with the help of our driver/guide. This can be done in places such as Kasubi tombs, Uganda Museum, Parliament, Christian Cathedrals, Mosques and craft shops around town. Dinner and overnight at Sheraton Hotel (High end), Hotel Africana(Medium end) or Fair Way Hotel(Budget)

DAY 2: Transfer to Sipi Falls After early breakfast transfer to Sipi Falls. We shall have lunch in Mbale town prior to our arrival at Sipi Falls Hotel. After lunch we shall hike the falls and return to hotel for dinner and over night.

DAY 3: MOUNTAIN HIKING Take breakfast and then hike following the Kapkwata Trail. A scenic hike through the bamboo, heath and moorland gets you to the Piswa camp at 2850 meters. Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the mountains.

DAY 4: MOUNTAIN HIKING Early morning breakfast and hike up to the rim of the calderas through beautiful columns of Lobelia Elgonensis. There shall be a possibility of visiting the Hot Springs and Suam Gorge before descending to the Hunters Cave Camp 3850m.

DAY 5: MOUNTAIN HIKING After early breakfast, having ascended to the top of the caldera to the Wagagai Peak at 4321m we shall descend thereafter through the Jackson Summit and the Jackson Pool for overnight at Mude Camp 3500m.

DAY 6: ELGON- KAMPALA Early morning breakfast descend through the Sasa trail to Budadiri then travel to Jinja town. Dinner and overnight at Jinja Nile Resort (High end, or the Adrift Nile high Camp (Budget).

DAY 7: Jinja-Kampala After breakfast we shall visit Bujagali Falls, the Source of the River Nile and a number of fishing villages. After lunch, we shall return to Kampala for overnight or transfer to Entebbe International Airport.  End of tour