4 Days Mundari South Sudan Tour
Day 1 ARRIVAL IN JUBA
Arrive by air in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the youngest country on Earth. Obtaining visa upon arrival at the airport. The guide will meet you at the airport and transfer to the hotel Royal Palace. The rest of the day is free to relax or explore.
Dinner and overnight in hotel Royal Palace Hotel Juba
Meals:
Note- If the arrival is on Sunday, at about 5:00 pm drive 5 KMS north of Juba at Atuot and enjoy the weekly wrestling and dancing by the tribes of Ayiab and Mundari
Day 2 JUBA – TERAKEKA
Breakfast and drive by 4×4 vehicles to the South Sudanese bush. 4 hours drive to Mundari tribal territory. Reaching Terakeka, regional capital, walk around the market to meet the first Mundari tribal people. After having checked with the local authorities drive to a cattle camp to spend the night.
Full day to see aspects of the Mundari daily lifestyle.
Mundari are a small ethnic group related to the Nilotic peoples. Mundari, together with neighboring Dinka people, are sometimes noted for their height. With the Tutsi of Rwanda, they are believed to be the tallest people in Africa.
The traditional Mundari tribal lands are located roughly 75 kilometers north of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and are centered on the town of Terekeka in the state of Central Equatoria. The land, like much of South Sudan, is predominantly flat and marked by occasional isolated large hills. The low-lying land contains many rivers and lakes and provides a very fertile basis in support of cattle grazing.
Meals: breakfast,lunch, dinner
Accommodation: tents
Days 3 –TERAKEKA MUNDARI TRIBE CATTLE CAMPS
Full days we stay with Mundari tribe. We will set the camp on one side of White Nile river and by small canoes cross the river to other side and to the islands. We will also follow the nomads with their cattle.
Visit the camp and small Mundari villages where facial and body scarification are still practiced to this day. Mundari villages are also interesting because of vernacular architecture: huts, black and white totems, and granaries beautifully built.
The Mundari, like other nilotic tribes, are very cattle-oriented: cattle serves as food, a form of currency and a mark of status. Marriages are arranged by the prospective groom offering cattle to the bride’s family and husbands may take as many wives as they can support. The Mundari engage in perennial cattle raiding wars with the neighboring Dinka during the dry season. In order to secure their cattle, Mundari men at night take their weapons and go to the bush.
Mundari have kept alive animistic religion while the neighboring Dinka have lost most this traditional ways due to war and conversion to Christianity.
In common with other nilotic tribes in Sudan, the Mundari practice ritual scarification as a rite of passage into adulthood for young men. The typical Mundari scar pattern consists of two sets of three parallel lines, each on either side of the forehead, extending in a downward slope and unconnected in the middle.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: tents
Day 4 TERAKEKA – JUBA – FLIGHT HOME
Breakfast and farewell from Mundari land. Last pictures of the landscape: forested savannah and the mighty White Nile river. Drive to Terakeka and further to Juba.
Afternoon to relax at the hotel (Day use hotel). At the arranged time transfer to the airport, trying to be at the airport 2 hours before the scheduled departure time. Flight back home.
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: day use hotel
The following services are INCLUDED in our packages:
• Meals as per the itinerary
• All airport transfers
• Accommodation in tents and in twin rooms basis as per the itinerary and the best available in other destinations and camping
• Ground transportation using vans and tourist standard 4by4 with AC for
the entire trip
• Guide services by our English-speaking guide
• All entrance fees
• Allowances to drivers and guide
• Photography permits from the Ministry of Wild life and Tourism
• Entry permits
• All government taxes
Not Included:
• All INTERNATIONAL flights
• Visa fee on arrival to Juba
• Tips and items of personal nature like laundry, souvenirs, etc
• All what is not included in the included list above
