The falls are located in a small trading center of Sipi, which lies at an altitude of 1,775 m on the mountain's northeastern foot slopes, only 55 km from Mbale along a good surfaced road. The village overlooks the 99m-high Sipi Falls, the last in a series of three waterfalls formed by the Sipi River as it cascades downhill from the upper slopes of Mount Elgon into the Kyoga Basin
