Rwenzori National Park
Location of the Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, located in southwest Uganda, is adjacent to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bundibugyo, Kabarole, and Kasese districts.
The third-highest snow-capped peak in Africa is a fantastic location for mountaineering, nature hikes, and viewing elephants, birds, monkeys, and other species.
Facts about the Park
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park, established in 1991, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is surely a 1,000 km2 area, featuring numerous waterfalls, lakes, glaciers, and Africa’s third-highest mountain summit.
This park indeed encompasses the eastern and central halves of the Rwenzori Mountains, featuring six glacial peaks, making it Africa’s tallest mountain range.
These certainly include; Mount Speke, Mount Stanley, Mount Gessi, Mount Emin Pasha, Mount Luigi da Savoia, and Mount Baker.
The Park’s rich biodiversity
This national park is surely home to 217 bird species, including 19 endemic to the Albertine Rift, 70 animal species, and some of the rarest plant life in the entire world.
The Rwenzoris, certainly the Mountains of the Moon, are located along the Uganda-Congo border in western Uganda, characterized by lush montane forests and fairytale-like vegetation.
The Rwenzori Mountains offer world-class hiking and mountaineering trails, with skilled climbers reaching Margherita’s summit after a nine to twelve-day walk, while shorter, easier excursions offer nearby peaks.
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Jungle Safari
A is an overland journey, usually a trip by tourists to Africa. In the past, the trip was often a big-game hunt, but today, safari often refers to trips to observe and photograph wildlife—or hiking and sightseeing, as well.
The Swahili word safari means journey, originally from the Arabic meaning a journey; the verb for “to travel” in Swahili is kusafiri. These words are used for any type of journey, e.g. by bus from Nairobi to Mombasa or by ferry from Dar es Salaam to Unguja. Safari entered the English language at the end of the 1850s thanks to Richard Francis Burton, the famous explorer.
The Regimental March of the King’s African Rifles was ‘Funga Safari’, literally ‘tie up the March’, or, in other words, pack up equipment ready to march.
In 1836 William Cornwallis Harris led an expedition purely to observe and record wildlife and landscapes by the expedition’s members. Harris established the safari style of journey, starting with a not too strenuous rising at first light, an energetic day walking, an afternoon rest then concluding with a formal dinner and telling stories in the evening over drinks and tobacco.
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Peak Climbing
A climbing peak may refer to a mountain or hill peak or a rock formation that has to be ascended by climbing. The term is common in Germany where it is specifically used of free-standing rock formations in the climbing regions of Saxon Switzerland, Zittau Mountains and other nearby ranges in the German Central Uplands that can only be summitted via climbing routes of at least grade I on the UIAA scale or by jumping from nearby rocks or massifs. As a general rule, they must have a topographic prominence of at least 10 metres to qualify. In Saxon Switzerland the Saxon Climbing Regulations do not require any minimum height, but define climbing peaks as
Another requirement is its recognition by the responsible sub-committee of the Saxon Climbers’ Federation (SBB) and the responsible conservation authorities. For hikers these authorized summits may often be recognised by the presence of a summit register and abseiling anchor points.
In other climbing areas, such as those in Bohemian Switzerland, there are other exceptions. There, climbing peaks only need to have a significant rock face – the lowest side of which has to be less than 10 m high, but at least 6 m high.
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