Mountain Trekking · Uganda
Rwenzori Mountains
The fabled Mountains of the Moon — equatorial glaciers, giant lobelias and mist-wrapped peaks that feel like another planet.
The fabled Mountains of the Moon — equatorial glaciers, giant lobelias and mist-wrapped peaks that feel like another planet.
The Rwenzoris stack five distinct ecosystems on top of each other: rainforest, bamboo, heather forests hung with lichen, alpine bogs of giant groundsel and lobelia, and finally rock and glacier at 5,109 metres.
Every day of the trek feels like crossing into a new planet — botanists call it 'Africa's botanical big game'.
Plan This Experience
Summit Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley — Africa's third-highest point — via glaciers that few travellers will ever see, or enjoy shorter circuits through the lower valleys.
Unlike the busy slopes of Kilimanjaro, you may not meet another trekking group all week. This is mountaineering with solitude.
Plan This Experience
Everything you need to know before you go — timed and tailored by our local experts.
The driest trails on a famously wet range — the best window for the high circuits.
Clearer summit weather and firm(er) bogs for the central circuit.
The Rwenzoris are never truly dry — good gear (and humour) are part of the adventure.
Ice and snow astride the Equator — one of Earth's rarest sights.
Ten-metre lobelias and groundsels straight from a fantasy novel.
Hut-to-hut circuits with Bakonzo guides and porters who own these mountains.
A fraction of Kilimanjaro's crowds, with wilder scenery at every turn.
Ptolemy mapped them from rumour two thousand years ago. You can walk them this year — and we'll make you enjoy every bit of it.
Four of our favourite journeys through this destination — every one fully customisable.
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