Mt. Elgon
	• 169 sq km • above 2800 m (sea level) • Elephant caves • Elephants, buffaloes • Several primate species • Plains game & forest hop • 240 bird species

Elgon is the 4th highest mountain in East Africa and its highest peak, Waggagai is inside Uganda... The National parks biggest attraction apart from climbing and hiking are the elephants, renowned the world over for their predilection for salt. This takes them to the caves where this saline is found in plentiful. The biggest of these caves is the Kitum, but also there are other spectacular ones at Chepnyali and Mackingeny. Apart from elephants, buffaloes, gazelles and waterbucks can be seen. There are also leopards but these rather shy animals are difficult to trace in the thick forest.

Kitum cave was once wrongly associated with the fatal Ebola virus which had surfaced in different locations in Central Africa. Thousands of visitors have since visited this spectacular site proofing the film makers and journalists wrong and serving to market the destinstion even more.