Mahoma Loop Trail

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Mahoma Loop Trail - 6Summits African Expeditions, packages, tours

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Mahoma loop trekking 3 days: Book a 3 days Rwenzori trekking Mahoma Loop via the central circuit for camping nature walk. 3 days Mahoma Loop. > Cultural Immersion: Explore Ruboni Village, home to the Bakonzo people, with a guided walk featuring basket-weaving, blacksmithing, and traditional storytelling. > Scenic Hike: Traverse rainforests, bamboo zones, and heather forests, reaching Lake Mahoma (3,515m) with views of the Rwenzori foothills and valleys. > Wildlife & Flora: Spot colobus monkeys, chimpanzees (rarely), Rwenzori turacos, giant lobelias, and possibly forest elephant tracks. > Accommodation: Mix of rustic mountain huts during the hike and comfortable lodges (Equator Snow Lodge or Ruboni Community Camp) pre/post-hike.

This days starts with breakfast early in the morning, thereafter proceed to the Rwenzori Mountaineering services headquarters to meet with your experienced Rwenzori guides, cooks, porters as well as attending to the regulations of your trek. Later on, begin your trek from the park gate at 1700m, for a measurable distance of 6.5km to Omukakiza camp, in 4-5 hours gaining an elevation of 1000 meter elevation. Past the gate, the walk through the montane forest zones, where you can numerous bird types, a three-horned chameleon, black and white colobus monkeys, and Rwenzori turaco birds, all endemic to the forest. It climbs steeply to Omukakiza camp (tent pitch), where you’ll have dinner and spend the night.

In the morning, descend steeply for a couple of hours from Omukakiza, traversing through the bamboo forest, before becoming easier, related to the flat region in the elephant zone. You may gimp Portal peaks and Kinyangoma Hills from Omukakiza. Arrive at the boardwalk via a level area, while the vegetation around comprises of Heather and afro-alpine zones, with many Senecio plants, huge lobelia, and lobelia Liberia. At last, reach Mahoma Lake at 12 feet deep-the deepest in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park, being fed Mount Baker’s melted snow. At Mahoma Lake Camp, have dinner and take up a goodnight rest in the set up a tent.

Early in the morning, rise up for breakfast and depart from Lake Mahoma, back to Nyalengija covering a distance of 8km in 3hours. Drop further to the park gate via the Mubuku River and farmland. Proceed to dine and rest overnight at your preferred lodge.