South Sudan is one of the last true frontiers of travel. At dawn in a Mundari cattle camp, thousands of long-horned Ankole cattle emerge from the smoke of dung fires — one of the most photographed scenes in Africa, in the world’s youngest country. We arrange every permit: government registration, travel permits and the photography permit are all included.
This 5-day private South Sudan tour covers White Nile sunset walk, Juba full-day, Bari village on Nile, Mundari cattle camp with your own guide, vehicle and security arrangements — no fixed group dates: departures run every day of the year, on your dates and at your pace. You stay in a hotel in Juba and a full-service expedition camp at the cattle camps (tents with cots, mobile showers and toilets, camp cook), moving by 4×4 with local translators.
From $2,870 USD per person — final price confirmed at booking. The tour is fully customizable: extra days, different hotels, or route changes are always possible.
5-day South Sudan itinerary
Met at Juba and driven in along the White Nile, which is the reason this city exists — the last navigable point upriver, where the boats from Khartoum used to stop. South Sudan is the world's newest country and one of its least visited. Sunset over the river, and a quiet first evening.
Overnight: hotel in Juba / tented bush camp.
The National Museum is modest and its story matters more than its objects. John Garang led the rebellion for twenty-one years, signed the peace that made independence possible, and died in a helicopter crash three weeks later; his mausoleum is the political centre of the country. Konyo Konyo is the great market. All Saints and St Theresa's are packed on Sundays — the south is Christian and animist, and that was the fault line of the war.
Overnight: hotel in Juba / tented bush camp.
The Bari are the people of Juba itself and of the river north and south of it — farmers and fishers rather than pure pastoralists. A day in a village: the tukuls, round mud-and-thatch houses; cassava, sorghum and banana in the fields; and a meal cooked the way it has always been cooked, over the fire, in the compound.
Overnight: hotel in Juba / tented bush camp.
Ash-white cattle in white smoke at dusk, the fire-jumping, and the singing that goes on into the night around the dung fires — each song is about a specific animal. It looks like something out of another world and it is completely ordinary here.
Overnight: hotel in Juba / tented bush camp.
A transfer to Juba airport for your flight out. End of our services.
