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6 Days Ascend Naromoru route descend Chogoria route
Day 1:Nairobi - Nanyuki - Youth Hostel
Depart Nairobi in the morning arriving Naromoru in time for lunch. After lunch you proceed to Mt Kenya Youth Hostel for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Met Station
After breakfast, proceed to Naromoru Park Gate and start hiking to Met Station 3300m. The hiking takes about 3 hrs. Dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Mackinders Camp
Depart Met Station after breakfast and proceed to Teleki Valley arriving Mackinders Camp 4300m early evening. Picnic lunch enroute. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4:Austrian Camp
Depart after breakfast commence ascending along a steep screw to Austrian Hut 4700m. Covering this distance takes about 3 hrs. Dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Point Lenana-Chogoria
Depart at 3:30 am and proceed through Lewis Glacier to Point Lenana 4985m arriving approx. 6:30 am in the morning. After the sunrise, descend down to Mintos Hut for full breakfast. Later descend along the famous Gorges Valley to Chogoria campsite. Dinner and overnight.
Day 6:Nairobi
After breakfast, set on morning journey to Chogoria (32km). Walk for 15 km to be met by a 4WD vehicle for the rest of the journey to Chogoria from where transport is provided back to Nairobi, arriving late afternoon.
Price includes:
- Transportation from and back to Nairobi
- fullboard accommodation in Mountain Huts as mentioned
- Services of a trained mountain guide and porters
- Three meals per day
Not included:
- climbing equipments
- Sleeping bags
- Expenses of personal nature such as visas, travel/baggage insurance, laundry, beverages, tips etc
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Mount Kenya National Park
Mt. Kenya National Park is located to the east of the Great Rift Valley, about 175km North-East of Nairobi. The ecosystem lies in Central and Eastern provinces of Kenya. At 5,199m the mountain is the second highest peak in Africa. Mt. Kenya is an important water tower in the country. It provides water for about 50% of the country’s population and produces 70% of Kenya’s hydroelectric power.
UNESCO inscribed Mount Kenya as a World Heritage Site. It’s described as one of the most impressive landscapes in Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moorlands and diverse forests that illustrate outstanding ecological processes.
The attraction of Mount Kenya include impressive landscape, rugged glacier clad summit, afro alpine moorland, forests, wildlife and over 800 recorded plant species of which 81 species are endemic to the area. Mount Kenya is the only free standing mountain in the world with permanent glaciers.
Mount Kenya has three major climbing routes, this include Sirimon route, Chogoria route and Narumoru Route. Accommodation is inform of mountain huts, one can also camp around the mountain huts and use the mountain huts facilities.
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