Highlights
- Hiking to the water falls
- Cultural encounters (learn how coffee is processed by the locals in Kapchorwa)
- Abseiling
- Cave adventure
- Rock Climbing
Overview
Day 1: Transfer to Sipi Falls
Day 2: Transfer back to Kampala
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Sipi Falls
After an early breakfast, our representative from Ssemambo Tours & Tours will pick you up from your hotel in Entebbe/Kampala and brief you about your tour, thereafter, start on your journey to Sipi Falls in the Eastern part of Uganda Kapchorwa District. You will have lunch in Mbale Town, then proceed to your lodge and check-in. Later afternoon, you will do hiking to the falls and here will view the beautiful scenery of Mt. Elgon and the low land plains. In the evening you can either go for community walks and here you will have the coffee experience among the peasant coffee farmers of Kapchorwa, you can also enjoy their traditional dances or ride bicycles around the village for more views of the landscapes. Dinner and overnight will be at the lodge.
Accommodation: Rafiki Lodge-Sipi
Meal: Full board
Day 2: Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe
After your morning breakfast, you will go for an abseiling experience which is an interesting adventure you cannot miss out, in case of any missed waterfall visit; you will be taken to start the hike along with your provided Sipi Falls guide. We shall then return to meet our driver and start our journey back home; we shall have lunch in Mbale town then embark on our journey to Entebbe/Kampala depending on your flight.
End of the Tour
SAFARI TRANSPORT
Standard 4×4 Safari Vans/Land cruisers
Our standard mode of transport is by road and we use 4×4 Safari van and Land cruisers with open roof tops customized for game viewing and photography. Each Safari van/Land cruiser comes with a professionally trained driver/guide with fuel for the whole safari. Each client is entitled to a window seat and can take up to 8-10 people. We also have very comfortable super customs which can carry up 6 people with their luggage also have small vehicles like Alphads, Harrier and much more that can carry 4-5 people.
Optional Activities
Fishing
Here you are able to do fly-fishing which is an hour’s walk of 30 minutes’ drive from Sipi trading centre to the Sipi River. Permits can be bought from Sipi River Lodge at US$50 per person for 24 hours.
Guided walks
The most popular walking trail is only 20 minutes in each direction which leads from behind the post office in Sipi trading centre to the base of the main waterfall. You can also choose to continue along this trail for another 20 to 30 minutes to reach a cluster of caves on the cliff above the river. These caves contain rich mineral salt deposits that have clearly been worked extensively at some time in the past. Walking back to the trading centre from the caves along the main road, you will pass the top of the main waterfalls, Sipi Mise Cave and an important local shrine set within a small forest-fringed cavern.
Kapkwai forest exploration centre
The forest can be easily accessed by foot of by road only 3km east of Sipi. The forest is an attractive destination for hikers and it was originally designed as an educational facility and later turned into a base of tourism. Another main attraction in this forest is; the network of day trails that offer access to the surrounding Afro-montane forest and also offers a good opportunity to see associated monkeys and birds.
