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Everlasting flowers and steep peaks seen from Hunwicks Camp, Kilembe Route, Rwenzori National Park, Kasese District, Uganda

On Day 4 of the Kilembe Route, Rwenzori National Park, Uganda, hikers walk through Afro alpine vegetation to eventually reach Hunwicks camp at 3, 794 meters, surrounded by towering mountain peaks framed with everlasting flowers (Helichrysum spp.)

© Morgan Trimble

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Valley with Afro-alpine vegetation, Giant Groundsels -Dendrosenecio- in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

© Karsten Wrobel

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Forest Lobelia (Lobelia gibberoa) in the Mobuku Valley in the high mountains of the Rwenzoris

Forest Lobelia (Lobelia gibberoa) in the Mobuku Valley in the high mountains of the Rwenzoris. Giant Lobelias are often endemic to the Rwenzoris and adopted to high UV radiation, wet weather and frost, Rwenzori, Uganda

© Martin Zwick / DanitaDelimont.com

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