Mt. Rwenzori National Park

Park Brief

Rwenzori National Park was gazetted in 1991 and later recognized as a World Heritage site in 1994 as well as a Ramsar site in 2008. The park’s highest point at , the Margherita Peak is at 5,109m ASL on Mt Stanley’s just a few meter from DR. Congo boarder. And it protects the highest parts of the 120km-long and 65km-wide Rwenzori mountain range.

Mt. Rwenzori is a block of rock up-faulted through the floor of the Western Rift Valley with Margherita peak as the highest peak in Uganda and 3^rd in Africa. The peak has permanent snow which makes climbing it very interesting and it’s an origin of many glacial rivers, christened the “Mountains of the Moon” by the Alexandrine geographer Ptolemy in AD 150. The explorer Henry Stanley placed the Rwenzori on the map on 24th May 1888. He labeled it ‘Ruwenzori’, a local name which he recorded as meaning “Rain-Maker” or “Cloud-King.”

It’s one of the most famous park by many world mountain climbers. The oldest recorded person to reach Margherita Peak was Ms. Beryl Park aged 78 in 2010. These fabled mountains lie in western Uganda along the Uganda-Congo border and it’s characterized with a true representation of all the mountain zones geographically. The national park hosts 70 mammals including a number of non-habituated chimpanzees, 217 bird species including 19 Albertine Rift endemics, as well as some of the world’s rarest vegetation.

Memorable Activities: The most memorable activities in this park include but not limited to: A 7 days hike to the Margherita peak though for a good climber can do it in 3 days using the central trail. Day hikes, birding, research based tourism, education trips. Community walk to neighboring Bakonzo villages for homestead visits, home cultural performances, home-cooked local cuisine so forth.

Accessibility: To do all these activities, we help you to reach the park using either road or air.

Accommodation: There a number of lodges from budget to high-End within a radius of 50 km.

Easiest way to explore this park (3/2 days). It’s possible for visitors sleeping in Entebbe/Kampala (Uganda) to drive direct to the park and do activities on the first day in the evening, then others on the following day(s) thereafter, come back to Kampala or proceed to other parks within 3 or 2 days.