DAY 2. DOMESTIC FLIGHT TO KAPOETA FROM JUBA
In the morning, after breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your domestic flight to Kapoeta (2 hours flight), to the eastern part of the country. Kapoeta is an ideal base to explore Toposa tribal territory.

The Toposa are Turkana speaking cattle-rearing people that have resisted western influence to this date. Toposa have traditionally lived by herding cattle, sheep, and goats, and in the past were involved in the ivory trade.

They have a tradition of constant warfare, usually cattle raids, against their neighbors. Depending on arrival time, we can visit the first Toposa tribal village.

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Mango camp

DAY 3, 4 AND 5. KAPOETA. TOPOSA AND JIYE TRIBES
Three full days to explore Toposa and Jiye tribal villages. The Toposa and Jye belong to what has been called the "Karamojong cluster", which also includes the Karamojong people of Uganda, the Nyangatom people in southwestern Ethiopia and the Turkana people of Kenya.

The Toposa economy and social life revolve around herding livestock, including cattle, camels, donkeys, goats, and sheep. Boys are first given care of goats and sheep, then graduate to looking after cattle when they come of age. Possession of cattle, along with possession of a loaded gun, are the main measures of status and wealth. Cattle are central to Toposa culture.

The Toposa have always competed for water and pasturage with their neighbors, and have always engaged in cattle rustling. The Toposa also pan for gold and other precious minerals in the stream beds.

Both Toposa and Jiye tribes continue to dress in their traditional clothes (leather-beaded skirts) and pierce their lips and scarify their arms, chests, and faces. Each scarification is a work of art. Visit different communities and enjoy the intense welcome dances.

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: tents and Mango camp.

DAY 6. KAPOETA – BOYA HILLS. LARIM TRIBE
After breakfast drive (2 hours) to Boya Hills to meet the Larim (Boya) tribal minority. Larim speak Murle and are excellent architects. They also pierce their nose and lips and scarify their bodies.

Larim keep cattle and grow seasonal crops, such as sorghum, maize and beans. Widowed women wrap vegetable cords around their legs and head. Larim is considered one of South Sudan's most traditional groups.

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: tents

DAY 7. BOYA HILLS – ILIEU KINGDOM. LOTUKO TRIBE
After breakfast drive (4 hours) to the mountain kingdom of Ilieu ruled by a priest-king. Interesting 14th Century stone walls. Explore the village and meet the Lotuko people.

Lotuko people are a Nilotic ethnic group that populates the region characterized by ranges and mountain spurs such as the Imotong mountain, the highest mountain in South Sudan.As agro-pastoralists, they keep large herds of cattle, sheep and goats, and supplement this with hoe-farming, hunting, and fishing.

The land is owned by no single person, but in trust by the community. In the mountains, after finding a site, the group decides the boundaries of each person's garden, with certain areas being fallow for a number of years.

Lotuko's religion is based on nature and ancestor worship that is deeply rooted in their ethnic identity.

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: tents

Day 8. ILIEU KINGDOM – TORIT
Breakfast. After last visits around the village, farewell from the mountain kingdom and drive (2 hours) to the town of Torit. En route we can see the local life. Check-in at Torit Hotel. Dinner in Northern Sudanese restaurant on the main colonial street.

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Torit hotel

DAY 9. TORIT – JUBA
After breakfast long drive (8 hours) to Juba. En route stops in town, such as Liria. Reach Juba and check-in in the hotel. Dinner in Da Vinci restaurant with nice views over Nile River and old metal bridge (the only place in Juba to take pictures of the Nile).

Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel Royal Palace.

DAY 10. JUBA – TERAKEKA
Breakfast and drive by 4x4 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

DAY 11,12 AND 13. EXPLORE TERAKEKA AND MUNDARI TRIBE CATTLE CAMPS.
Three 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 14. TERAKEKA – JUBA.
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. The rest of the day you will relax at the hotel or have juba city tour.

DAY 15.Departure.
At the arranged time transfer to the airport, ultimate wild safaris driver guide will transfer you for scheduled departure time for your flight back home, hence calling it end of South Sudan tour.

Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: day use hotel

Please note:
The order of visits and excursions can be modified according to local conditions (i.e. state of roads, market days etc.).

If some visits and/or tours could not be done due to external conditions, they will be replaced when possible.
We can as well tailor make your tour to best suit your interests, share with us your travel date, budget and time.