Overview of the 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

This 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park offers you a 3 days Mount Elgon tour Uganda experience to one of the exciting and favorable mountains in East Africa. This 3 days Uganda safari featuring a sipi falls hike, coffee plantations tour and a visit to the source of the Nile starts and ends in Kampala. Your exclusive 3 days short Uganda tour is not a hiking/mountain climbing/ mountaineering safari to Mount Elgon national park but rather a tour to Mabira forest, sipi falls hike, a visit to the coffee plantations and a Jinja source of the Nile tour as you return to Kampala.

It all starts with a pick up with your professional safari Uganda driver guide from your lodging facility using a 4×4 safari vehicle as early as 7:00am, you will then be driven for almost 6 hours drive to Kapchorwa. At Mabira forest, about 6okm from Kampala you will  go for a nature walk lasting about 2 hours then after continue for an overnight in Kapchorwa. On day 2 after breakfast, you will go for a hike to sipi falls and have a community tour to the coffee plantations and families around. After breakfast on the third day of your safari, you will do a nature walk at kapkwai for about 3-4 hours, have lunch in Mbale and then continue and do a boat cruise to the source of the Nile in Jinja as you return to Kampala. Through your safari, you will have the choice to choose from either luxury, mid-range or budget as an accommodation in Mount Elgon National Park.

Highlights of the 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

Day 1: After an early morning breakfast, your driver guide will pick you up as early as 7:00am to start on your journey to Mount Elgon national park.You will stop for a nature walk in Mabira forest then continue to kapchorwa.

Day 2: After an early morning breakfast, your driver will take you for a Sipi falls hike surrounded with a beautiful greenery back drop.

Day 3: Your driver guide will transfer you to Kapkwai forest exploration centre for a nature walk, you will have lunch in Mbale then have a stop in Jinja for a boat cruise to the source of the Nile.

Day by day itinerary details of the 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

Day 1 of your 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

You drive to Mount Elgon national park from Kampala early morning after breakfast after a pick up from your lodging facility by your driver guide. About 60km from Kampala, you will stop for a nature walk in the biggest tropical forest in central Uganda lasting about 2 hours then you continue to Kapchorwa for dinner and an overnight stay in a preferred accommodation facility.

Day 2 of your 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

After breakfast at your lodging facility, your driver guide will transfer you to Sipi falls for a hiking experience. You will spend the day enjoying the beautiful Sipi falls and hike to the top of the falls. In the evening you return to your prior booked accommodation in Mount Elgon National Park for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 3 of your 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

On the last day of your 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park, you will do a forest exploration at Kapkwai forest. During the exploration, you come along numerous caves and can decide to hike the 3km ridge to Chebonet falls.  After the exploration for about 2 hours, you will drive to Mbale for lunch and then continue to Jinja for a boat cruise to the source of the Nile thereafter return to Kampala arriving late in the evening.

End of your 3 days Uganda safari to Mount Elgon National Park

When you wake up from the different side of the world, the experience is different too. Wake up to explore nature in just a 3 days safari and have a memorable experience.