Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 3 of 4 > Summit Day ?
Today I get to lead the tour of tours of this two-week trek around and on extinct volcanoes in Uganda. It will be a teamwork with National Park ranger Maddy.
Half past six breakfast and around half past seven, after the yoga sun salutation, we start the nine hundred meters of altitude to Wagagai, with 4,321 meters the highest of five peaks that volcano Mount Elgon has around an enormous wide crater.
We take a break at Jackson Pool. Then follows the climb to the caldera crater rim. We follow the crater rim for a while until just before the final climb. Maddy and I find a place out of the wind behind a rock wall where we have a tea party ?
The climb to the top is beautiful. One is chatting, the other is in thought. At the top we are euphoric: we sing Wa-ga-gai, hug each other and take pictures and peer through my binoculars.
Back at Jackson Pool a hot lunch is waiting for us. Blessed! The weather changed. Back towards our tent camp we hear thunder and a shower of rain falls. It completes the whole picture. What a nice and beautiful day. Thank you Maaike, Peggy, Nelleke, Anja, Maddy, Joël and Daniel! ?
We just returned from mapping a trail through Kenya’s West-Pokot County. The trail is meant for the Warrior Nomad Trail initiative to guide travelers through East Africa’s least travelled areas. West-Pokot is located across the borders of Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region. It’s easy accessible by road from Amudat District. The main attractions are Mount Mtelo, Lake …
A team of Ugandan content makers travelled to northeastern Uganda and asked Kara-Tunga to host them in Karamoja sub-region and give them an authentic taste of Karimojong culture.
Karamoja Cultural Event Group Tour – What happens when a trip you have always wanted to make comes for the right price? Subscribe, pack your bags and embark on the journey with strangers. That is exactly what I did when Kara-Tunga advertised this adventure.
Trekking Mt Elgon – A great start of the year with a publication of the Mount Elgon hike by Clark Expeditions in the hiking and trekking magazine for the Benelux ‘Bergen Magazine’.
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Trekking in Uganda: Kadam, Moroto, Elgon
Trekking in Uganda: Mount Elgon – day 3 of 4 > Summit Day ?
Today I get to lead the tour of tours of this two-week trek around and on extinct volcanoes in Uganda. It will be a teamwork with National Park ranger Maddy.
Half past six breakfast and around half past seven, after the yoga sun salutation, we start the nine hundred meters of altitude to Wagagai, with 4,321 meters the highest of five peaks that volcano Mount Elgon has around an enormous wide crater.
We take a break at Jackson Pool. Then follows the climb to the caldera crater rim. We follow the crater rim for a while until just before the final climb. Maddy and I find a place out of the wind behind a rock wall where we have a tea party ?
The climb to the top is beautiful. One is chatting, the other is in thought. At the top we are euphoric: we sing Wa-ga-gai, hug each other and take pictures and peer through my binoculars.
Back at Jackson Pool a hot lunch is waiting for us. Blessed! The weather changed. Back towards our tent camp we hear thunder and a shower of rain falls. It completes the whole picture. What a nice and beautiful day. Thank you Maaike, Peggy, Nelleke, Anja, Maddy, Joël and Daniel! ?
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