Mountain Rwenzori climbing & trekking safaris 2025- 2026

The mountain Rwenzori is located near and north of the equator in Uganda in the equatorial part of East Africa. The Rwenzoris have 16 beautiful snowcapped peaks, with the Margareta the being the 3^rd highest peak in Africa and 8^th highest peak in the world and 5 of the mountain’s high peaks among the 10 highest in Africa. The permanently glaciated mountain peaks melt providing water from rivers that flow downslope the mountain ranges with some of the rivers believed to be the furthest source of the mighty river Nile. Mountain Rwenzori still has the typical mountain vegetation zones at different altitudes and hasn’t been so far affected by changing climatic conditions and is still intact (There are five overlapping vegetation zones in the Ruwenzori: the evergreen forest zone (up to 2,800 metres (9,200 ft)); the bamboo zone (2,800 to 3,300 metres (9,200 to 10,800 ft)); the heather zone (3,000 to 3,800 metres (9,800 to 12,500 ft)); the alpine zone (3,500 to 4,500 metres (11,500 to 14,800 ft)); and, the nival zone (4,400 to 5,000 metres (14,400 to 16,400 ft)). At higher elevations, some plants reach an unusually large size, such as lobelia and groundsels). The mountain ranges also harbor numerous mineral resources which are also visible and exposed out of the earth’s crust such as copper and cobalt.