Mount Morungole Hike in Remote Karamoja, Northeastern Uganda
Mount Morungole hike in north eastern Uganda : Sitting around Kidepo valley national park, Mount Murungole is one of the least talked about mountains in Uganda. It is located North-East of Uganda. The main occupants around the mountain are the Ik people who are near the boarder of Uganda and Sudan to the far North-East. The mountain is also crossed through by the Narus river. Mountain Murungole is also a good place to Hike to it’s top. It is 2479m high. It neighbors peaks of Mount Zulia and the Labwor and Dodoth Hills with approximate heights of 2,000m.
ACTIVITIES TO DO AROUND MOUNTAIN MURUNGOLE
Visit kidepo valley national park
Mountain Murungole it covering the biggest part of kidepo valley, it gives tourists a variety of what to chose from. A safari to kidepo valley, one of Africa’s great national game parks gives you chance to also view the Murungole Mountain. Kidepo valley national game park has a collection of varies wildlife in Zebras, Elephants, Ostriches, Lions, Cheetahs, Black backed jackal and a variety species of birds for you to watch.
Hike the Murungole mountain
Mountain Murungole may not be one of the tallest in Uganda but it can give you a challenge check to your physical fitness. The hike to the top is done by footing upwards with the help of a well experienced guide. It sitting along the kidepo valley and Karamoja plains, it is 2,479m high above sea level.Mountain Murungole is also the source of the Narus river. While at the top of the Mountain Murungole, the beautiful sceneray is visible. Also the mountain murungole top is a beautiful place for taking photographs to add to your collection.
Visit the Ik people and their culture
The Ik people are sometimes called “Teuso”. They are an ethnic group of people living in the mountains of the north-eastern Uganda near the Uganda-Kenya boarder. They also boarder the Karamojongs and Turkana pf Kenyan.The Ik were displaced from their land to create the Kidepo Valley National Park and consequently suffered extreme famine. Also, their weakness relative to other tribes meant they were regularly raided. The Ik are subsistence farmers who grind their own grain.
The Ik people live in many small villages organized in clusters, which comprise the total “community”. They are divided into friend-based neighborhoods called “odoks”. Each Odok is surrounded by a wall. Each Odok is also divided into Asaks (walled-off house-holds) , each asak has granaries for food storage.
Children are expelled from their families at a tender age where they form age-bands, groups are organized in age differences. This act is sometimes done to children aging from three to four years. There are the junior and the senior groups. The junior group consists of children from three to eight years while the senior group of children carries children from the age of eight to thirteen years of age. These children teach themselves basic ways of surviving.
Narus River and Narus valley
Narus river divides the park into two, The Narus river is a great point for wildlife in a sem desert area. There are a big numbers of mammals seen at the Narus river point where some are not located any where in the country.
The Narus valley plains are a big habitat for wildlife, there are a variety of wildlife to watch while on the game drive through the Narus valley. Some animals include; the Lions, Cheetahs, Bushbacks, Fox, Kori bastard, Ostrich, the abbyssrian hornbill, the scarlette chested sun bird, the kori, Elephants, Kudus ,buffalos, leopards, giraffes, zebras ,hyenas and many more.
Also a chance to encounter the karamojongs way of life is possible, they are blessed with arts made by their own hands. These can be taken back home as souveniors.
