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	Ruwenzori Mountains safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
		Ruwenzori Mountains National Park was proclaimed a World Heritage Site to protect the natural beauty, flora and fauna of the area.
		The Ruwenzoris are a true mountain range created by tectonic movement of the earth's plates, and are not as a result of volcanic activity.
		The Ruwenzori is one of the main watersheds of the Nile receiving rain throughout the year but exceptional amounts from March through till June and September through December.
	www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/RuwenzoriMountains.html (348 words)

	Ruwenzori Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mountains formed as a result of uplift on the flanks of the Albertine (western) Rift of the East African Rift, the African part of the Great Rift Valley.
		The Ruwenzori are known for their vegetation, ranging from tropical rainforest through alpine meadows to snow; and for their animal population, including forest elephants, several primate species and many endemic birds.
		Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruwenzori_Range (585 words)

	Ruwenzori
		The Ruwenzori are a remote mountain range in central Africa, north of Rwanda on the border of Uganda and the former Zaire.
		The Ruwenzori are the fabled source of the Nile and are presumed identical with Ptolomy's enigmatic reference to the "Mountains of the Moon whose snows feed the lakes, sources of the Nile".
		The Ruwenzori are thus invented as a landscape embodying a historical memory and a transcontinental significance.
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/english/interaction/97hw.htm (3883 words)

	Mountains of the moon Spectator, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Mountains of the Moon is the name classical antiquity gave to what modern geography calls the Ruwenzori mountains.
		The Bakonzo are the gatekeepers of the inner mountains, guardians of the esoteric routes and tunnels by which they must be reached.
		My compulsion to climb the mountains was sparked by the idea that I should be the first to reach these glaciered heights when, this past July, the Ugandan government deemed them safe to re-enter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200201/ai_n9048576 (934 words)

	Ruwenzori Red Duiker
		The Ruwenzori duiker is restricted only to west Uganda and probably adjacent zones of east former Zaire in the Ruwenzori Mts.
		Endemic to the Ruwenzori mountains along the Uganda/Congo-Kinshasa border (East, 1999).
		The Ruwenzori red duiker is reported as primarily diurnal, but, depending on weather conditions (especially rain), the activity period may be shifted out of necessity to the night.
	www.wild-about-you.com /GameRuwenzoriRedDuiker.htm (685 words)

	Uganda Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The gradually sloping terrain is interrupted by a shallow basin dipping toward the center of the country and small areas of tropical forest, which mark the western border with Zaire.
		The Ruwenzori Mountains (often called the Mountains of the Moon) form about eighty kilometers of the border between Uganda and Zaire.
		The highest peaks of Mount Stanley, in the Ruwenzoris, are snowcapped.
	www.country-studies.com /uganda/mountains.html (275 words)

	Wild Frontiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ruwenzori Mountains were gazetted as a Notional Park in 1991.
		Ruwenzori Mountains National Park is also home to the hyrax, blue monkey, chimpanzee, giant forest hog and many unique bird species such as the Rwenzori Touraco, the handsome francolin and the olive pigeon.
		Ruwenzori Mountaineering Services provides guides and porters to climbers. Climbers in the park stay in a series of simple bandas, or can camp, along the main route.
	www.wildfrontiers.com /showarea.asp?AreaInfoID=16 (514 words)

	Ruwenzori mountains, Uganda - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The Ruwenzori Range was visited in 1889 by an expedition that was led by the British-American explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and the major peaks were explored and climbed in 1906 by the expedition of the Italian Luigi Amedeo, duke of Abruzzi.
		The waters from the Ruwenzori mountains feed the Nile.
		It is in these mountains that the waters of the Nile start.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /ruwenzori_mountains.htm (171 words)

	Mount Kilimanjaro climbing, Mount Kenya hiking, Mt Ruwenzori climbing, Trekking on Mt Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mountain Climbing in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania has over the years continued to draw thousands of tourists interested in surmounting these snow peaked mountains that stand majestically at the equator and rise over 14,000ft.
		The Ruwenzori- the snow peaked mountains of western Uganda that are also known as "mountains of the moon" - are a suitable place for starting your mountain climbing adventures in eastern africa.
		The highest mountain in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro - also called the "roof of Africa" or the "mountain of the buffalo" rises gradually from the African savanna to reach a peak of 19,384ft at its summit.
	www.greathorizontrails.com /mount.htm (386 words)

	Uganda's Parks and Reserves
		Surrounded by mountains, the park covers 1,440 square kms and is the home of the Karimojong pastoralists who graze their cattle over the plains.
		Although the mountains are very popular with climbers, their ascent is demanding and require some climbing skills.
		Established in 1952, the park covers almost 2,000 square kms and is bordered to the North by the Ruwenzori Mountains and to the West by Lake Edward.
	www.africanhorizons.com /Uganda/reserves.asp (952 words)

	Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda
		Centenary Celebrations of the climbing of the Rwenzori range by the scientific expedition led by Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi in 1906 are to be held during 2006.
		The mountains are frequently shrouded in mist and cloud with the peaks rarely being visible from far.
		With several endemic sunbirds, Rwenzori Turaco and Mountain Buzzard all evident and obvious this is a veritable feast for the bird spotter.
	traveluganda.co.ug /ruwenzori.asp (1985 words)

	Uganda map and safari destinations
		The Ruwenzori Mountains lie along the western border of Uganda and rise to a height of 5100 meters.
		Forming the "Mountains of the Moon" these mist enshrouded peaks reflect a haunting mystery that is a famed subect of photography.
		The Mgahinga Gorilla National Park was established on the slopes of the Virunga Mountains as a sanctuary for mountain gorillas.
	www.capecairo.com /uganda/ugandamap.html (1774 words)

	Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Mount Stanley
		The Ruwenzori (or Rwenzori) is the only truly alpine, glaciated mountain range in Africa, the third highest group overall on the continent behind Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya.
		The mountains have been famed since antiquity as the "Mountains of the Moon", the distant unknown source of the Nile River, and they are the wettest mountains in East Africa, shrouded in clouds and mist for most of the year.
		Mount Stanley is the largest and highest of these mountains, with the greatest extent of glacial ice and the three highest peaks in the range.
	www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/ROF.php?name=Stanley (311 words)

	Ruwenzori
		The Ruwenzori Mountains - or the Mountains of the Moon - rise to very high altitudes along the border area between the western Uganda and Zaire in central Africa.
		The mountain in the background is Mount Speke (5.035 meters).
		These mountains have been unchanged for thousands of years, and they give you a feeling of being totally outside time and space, because everything is different from what you know.
	www.ponty.dk /ruwe-eng.htm (1362 words)

	FWB, October 1992
		JOSHUA RUBONGOYA, PH.D. The Ruwenzori mountains are located in the southwestern corner of what is modern day Uganda; they straddle the border of Zaire (recently renamed Congo, its previous name as a Belgian colony).
		The Baamba people are indigenous to the northern part of the Ruwenzoris and call their homeland Bwamba; the Bakonjo people are indigenous to the southern part and call their homeland Busongora.
		The Bakonjo-Baamba "Rwenzururu (Ruwenzori) Movement" calls for the autonomy of the mountain region under the control of the people who are indigenous specifically to it.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /fwc/Issue3/uganda-1.html (695 words)

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		The Ruwenzori Mountains are so named because of the phenomenon of snow - five glaciered peak clusters, unmatched elsewhere in equatoria.
		Ruwenzori means 'the site of the snow-god.' One of the most remote regions on Earth, the all but impenetrable highlands of the massif rise to a glacier-land of over 16,000 feet.
		Herodotus wrote of them as the Mountains of the Moon nearly two and a half millennia ago; the playwright Aeschylus had already written of the river Nile 'watered by the snows of Africa'.
	www.tomstacey.com /Tribe/tribe.htm (341 words)

	Ruwenzori - Peakware World Mountain Encyclcopedia
		The Ruwenzori is a group of six high glaciated massifs, located in a small remote area between Lake Edward and Lake Albert on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		The complex is surrounded by a wide belt of boggy foothills, guarding the mountains with an approach through knee-deep mud and practically impassable vegetation.
		Although Kilimanjaro and Kenya have been postulated as the mountains to which Ptolemy refered, it is widely held that the Ruwenzori Mountains are indeed the Mountains of the Moon.
	www.peakware.com /areas.html?a=393 (219 words)

	Ruwenzori
		This range has been linked with the fabled Mountains of the Moon, for centuries postulated to be the source of the Nile, hidden deep in central Africa.
		In over three weeks on the mountain, this was virtually the only precipitation we experienced.
		The Ruwenzoris are in Zaire, a country where the disorganisation is rivaled only by the corruption.
	www.cathyodowd.com /ruw.html (1506 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Uganda
		The mountain range stretches for about 100km (62mi) and is one of Uganda's most illustrious national parks.
		At its centre are several permanently snow and glacier-covered mountains; the highest is Mt Stanley.
		Fort Portal, a quiet, verdant town at the northeast end of the Ruwenzori Mountains, is a tea-growing centre.
	aolsvc.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/africa/uganda/obt.html (368 words)

	Uganda
		Along the western border are the Ruwenzori Mountains reaching heights in excess of 4900 meters, while on the eastern frontier Mount Elgon rises to over 4250 meters.
		Uganda is a land of many contrasts, with its forbidding mountains acting as a foil to the softer meadows and broad savannah, while the dry uplands contrast with the swamplands of the lake shores.
		It is a country saturated in colour, the outstanding natural beauty of its people and the landscapes have always stirred the imagination of travelers.
	www.uganda-safaris.com (339 words)

	HomePage Tom Stacey Author of TRIBE
		A glacier-crowned range in the heart of equatorial Africa, the Mountains of the Moon (classical antiquity's name for the Ruwenzori Mountains) straddle the Congo-Uganda border, and are home to the Bakonzo tribe.
		Their armed creation of an independent state in the 1960s stemmed in part from the author's first journey: 'I went to Ruwenzori to write a book, and ended up seeding a rebellion.' Stacey's initial engagement with the Bakonzo of Ruwenzori - or Rwenzururu in the vernacular - cut deep, and endures to this day.
		The rebel kingdom in the mountains functioned with impressive authority from 1962-82.
	www.tomstacey.com (477 words)

	Ruwenzori red duiker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thomas (1901) reports that the fur is thick, dense and "slightly woolly".
		No information on the growth, development, and breeding of the Ruwenzori red duiker is available.
		The spelling of the Ruwenzori mountain range is disputed; some authors prefer the spelling Rwenzori (East, 1999).
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Cephalophus_rubidus.html (939 words)

	In a Ugandan Rain Forest - Steven M. Wise
		The rising sun slowly illuminates the ice that tips the massive peaks of Uganda's Ruwenzori Mountains, twenty-five miles east of where I stand.
		Ruwenzori National Park borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo; in the summer of 2001, the park is closed.
		Fundamentalist Muslim rebels of the Allied Democratic Front are camped in ravines of the Mountains of the Moon because they are trying to overthrow the Ugandan government, which overthrew its predecessor fifteen years ago.
	www.ccforaction.com /excerpt.htm (2352 words)

	SummitPost - Mt. Stanley -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Mount Stanley is the highest massif in the Rwenzori (also spelled Ruwenzori) Mountains on the Uganda/Democratic Republic of the Congo border.
		It is a spectacular mountain rising through jungle and otherworldly bogs, culminating in a number of sharp peaks surrounded by one of Africa’s largest concentration of glaciers.
		Despite the legends, the existence of these mountains was not confirmed outside of Central Africa until the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/212349/mt-stanley.html (2816 words)

	Rwenzori Mountains National Park Travel information
		The first climbing of the peaks of Rwenzori Mountains was made by the scientific expedition led by the Italian Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy Duke of Abruzzi, which took place between May and July 1906.
		A trip into the Rwenzori Mountains is a rewarding experience, which allows you to see the main peaks of the largest mountain range in Africa.
		Plan to arrive at Rwenzori Mountains National Park and the Rwenzori Mountaineering Services (RMS) offices at Nyakalengija in the morning so as to have ample time to rent equipment and be availed with guides and porters.
	www.aboutuganda.com /nprwenzori.html (1981 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands (AT1013) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ruwenzori Mountains give rise to tall jagged peaks, the highest of which is the 16,795-foot (5,119 m) Margherita Peak.
		Local human populations hunt the mountain gorillas for meat and cut down the forests for fuelwood and building materials.
		Unstable political conditions have limited tourism, but the possibility of mass development in the Ruwenzori area is a threat as increasing numbers of people come from all over the world to see the mountain gorillas.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1013.html (437 words)

	Mountain Climbing in East Africa, climbing Mt Kenya, trekking on Mount Kilimanjaro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mountain Climbing in East Africa, climbing Mt Kenya, trekking on Mount Kilimanjaro
		Since East Africa is home to some of the continents highest mountains including Mount Kilimanjaro “The Peak of Africa”;, Mount Kenya and Mount Ruwenzori – all of them spotting snow covered peaks and lying a few degrees away from the Equator – mountain climbing is a major sport activity.
		There are several routes up the mountains please inquire for the most picturesque, the easiest, or the most tasking climbing experience.
	www.theeriksenadventure.com /mountain.htm (119 words)

	Fotograf Grundsten
		Ruwenzori include the third highest peak in Africa, called Margherita 5119 m a s l, and the largest glacier on the continent, the Stanleyplateau.
		What makes the Ruwenzori Trek so special besides its beutiful scenery, the fantasy plants, rainy weather and muddy trails, is the splendid isolation and wilderness.
		The walk out from the mountain was an adventure in itself.
	www.fotograf-grundsten.se /schedule/uganda.html (235 words)

	The Annotated "Mountains of the Moon"
		Mountains of the Moon: an expedition to the equatorial mountains of Africa.
		A Voyage to the Mountains of the Moon Under the Equator, or, Parnassus Reform'd: Being the Apotheosis of Sir Smauel Garth.
		Additionally, it is interesting to note that one of the expeditions to the Mountains of the Moon was undertaken by none other than Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), in 1858, in search of the source of the Nile.
	arts.ucsc.edu /gdead/agdl/moon.html (1812 words)

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