INTRODUCTION
This trip will take you to Sudd (Bahr-el-Jebel system) The Sudd swamps of southern Sudan are among the most important wetlands for birds in Africa. Three protected areas exist within the Sudd: Shambe National Park and Fanyikang and Zeraf Game Reserves, all within the Bahr-el-Jebel system of the Sudd, the part of the swamps that will be most affected by the Jonglei canal, as and when completed. For current purposes, the core of the Sudd is treated as a single site; this includes the three protected areas and covers much of the Bahr-el-Jebel system between the towns of Malakal to the north and Bor to the south. The Sudd swamps hold by far the largest population of Shoebill Balaeniceps rex.
The trip also will take you to the remote tribes of South Sudan who are unique for their nomadic life style. This is the highlight of South Sudan. The trip will take you to the north east of Juba to TAREKEKA to explore one of the unique tribes of South Sudan called MUNDARI. These people are farmers, cattle herding and agriculturalists who live in small scattered villages. They follow a largely traditional lifestyle. They are unique and identified their young men and women who are marked with a series of parallel “V-shaped scars on their forehead.
From there, we will explore parts the tribe of DINKA, LARIM/BOYA TRIBE and the TOPPOSA TRIBE at KAPOETA and the remote JIYE TRIBE.
Starts & Ends In Juba
10:00 am from your hotel in Juba
Day 1: ARRIVAL- JUBA
Arrive in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. The guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel. The rest of the day is free to relax or explore.
Accommodation: Rainbow Hotel or similar
Meal: None
Meals: Lunch and dinner
Accommodation: tents
Wake up early at 5:30 and get ready for the visit and photography. This is the mooring which gives a good chance to see the early morning activity of the villagers. You will observe boys washing with cattle urine and dye their hair. Women’s collecting cattle dung for to cook food etc. when the Mundari depart their settlement with their cattle, we drive to another Mundari settlement.
Drive to the South Sudanese bush for 1 hour to another Mundari cattle camp. We will set up a camp by the Mundari settlement. We change
Visit their camp and villages where facial and body scarification are still practiced to this day.
Accommodation: tents
Overnight camping
Meal: BLD
Overnight camping
Meals (B, L and D)
Full day and night with the Mundari.
Today we wake up early as usual and spend half of the day in this village.
After lunch drive to another Mundari. This will give us opportunity to mingle and photograph other Mundari people.
Spend the night camping.
Meal: BLD
NB- The best photography times are late afternoon from 4:00pm and in the morning starting from 5:00 AM. The rest of the times the villages are empty.
Wake up early and further visit to the Mundari.
Depart 9:30 to Juba for the 11:30 am flight to Kapoeta where the Topposa people live.
Arrive in Kapoeta and visit the daily market and mingle with the Topposa.
Around 2:30 pm drive to camp 15 to visit the Larim.
Late afternoon drive back to Kapoeta. This night can also be spent with the Larim.
Overnight in Kuleu hotel Kapoeta
Meal: BLD
Drive Koteen mountains to visit the Toppsa tribe.
PM drive to pariyang to visit the gold mining activity by the river banks. Late afternoon drive back to Kapoeta.
Overnight is Kuleu Hotel in Kapoeta
Meal: BLD
Early morning drive to the river LAMORIYANG to visit the day to day gold mining activity.
Return back to Kapoeta for the flight to Juba. Lunch in Juba and drive to a nearby Dinka village to visit the DINKA tribe.
Drive back to Juba for overnight
Meal: BLD
Yirol is a boarding spring to Shambe national reserve and to the heart of the Sudd/ wetland or the great swamp.
Overnight Paradise Lodge
Meal: BLD
Drive 56 KMS to Shambe Natural Reserve and full day visit to the Natural Reserve and drive back to Yirol for overnight
Overnight Paradise Lodge
Meal: BLD
Bird watching at Shambe national park.
Overnight Paradise Lodge
Meal: BLD
Full day drive back to JUBA.
Overnight Rainbow Hotel
Today we do the 6 hours covid test and Depending of our time we will visit Konyo market , John Garang Mausoleum , Jubek Tomb , Presidential Palace and departure.
