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 are marked with a series of parallel “V-shaped scars on their forehead.
From there, we will explore parts of the tribe of DINKA, LARIM/BOYE TRIBE, 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
Meals: Lunch and dinner
Accommodation: tents
Drive through the city of Juba. Lunch in Juba and drive to the Mundari village settlements. The Mundari are nomads and settle in an area called Tarekeka and around Juba following availability of grazing lands.
Setup a camp few meters away from the Mundari campsite and mingle with the tribe when they return with their cattle usually around 5:00 pm.
Overnight camping
Meals (B, L and D)
6:00 am wake up with the Mundari and visit the cattle camp and the villagers morning activities. The morning will grant visitors for a photo opportunities. Usually it is around 8:00 am the Mundari men depart from their camp with their cattle in search of grazing. We take breakfast and farewell to the Mundari tribe then drive back to Juba for lunch. PM we take the tarred road to Nimule (Uganda border) and turn left to the Dinka tribal settlement.
Arrive around 10:00 pm and setup our camp around Dinka settlement.
Spend the rest of the time mingling with the Dinka shepherds.
Overnight camping with the Dinka
Meals (B, L and D)
6:00 am visit the Dinka cattle camp and around 8:00 take breakfast and farewell to the Dinka continue to Torit for lunch.
After lunch drive to Illeu village. PM around 4:00 hike up to the Lotuku mountain for the visit to the village called Illeu. Hike down for
overnight under Lotuku mountains by the nearby school compound.
Meals (B, L and D)
Drive (60 KMS)from Lotuku Mountain to Larim/ the Boya people via the road taking towards Kiddepo.
Pass through Lobira road and continue the drive to Larim via a village called camp 15.
Coffee, arrange permits with local officials at Camp 15 and drive to Imatong hills for overnight.
Picnic lunch on the way.
PM around 5:00 meet the Larim returning from their surroundings.
Overnight Camping
Meals (B, L and D)
Wake up at 6:00 am and further visit the villages of the Larim/Boya tribe. Photo opportunity of morning village activities and continue driving to Kapoeta.
Checking to the local hotel in Kapoeta and around 5:30 pm drive to one of the near by village and visit the Topossa .
Drive back to the hotel for overnight
Meals (B, L and D)
Early morning drive to a place called Pariyang for the gold mining activity and the villages. Return back to Kapoeta for the daily market. Lunch in Kapoeta
And drive two hours to a Topposa village who settled around mountain koteene mountain. Meet the Toppsa returning from their nearby and mingle with them.
Camping by the village.
Meals (B, L and D)
Drive Koteen mountains-Mogos Early morning visit village activities and drive 45 KMS to an other Toppsa village called Mogos. This village is a spring board to one of the remote tribes of South Sudan called Jiye.
Spend overnight in Mogos
Meals (B, L and D)
Drive 45 KMS to the tribal land of the Jiye people.
Drive on one of the hardest road to the land of Jiye. The weather here is very hostile. Sometimes temperature rises to 45 degrees.
Here we spend our time with the Jiye.
Meals (B, L and D)
Full day drive back to Kapoeta
Overnight in Kapoeta.
Morning we visit one of the Topposa village around Kapoeta.
PM we fly to Juba and do the covid taste.
Departure.
4 PAX – 4700 $
6 PAX- 3880 $
8 PAX- 3240 $
12 PAX – 2800$
