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DAY MT. KENYA:
(i)
NARO-MORU ROUTE
Day
1: Leave Nairobi passing Kikuyu farmland. Dinner/overnight spend in Naro
Moru mountain hotel.
Day
2:Naro Moru - Met Station
After
breakfast, leave the Mt. Hotel and drive to the main gates. Taking a picnic
lunch, start ascending the mountain through the rain forest for ten kilometers
to the Met station for dinner and overnight.
Day
3: Met Station - Mackinders Hut
After
breakfast, continue ascending to Mackinders camp for dinner and overnight,
lunch enroute.
Day
4: Mackinders Hut - Met Station
Wake
up very early in the morning around 2.30am and attempt point Lenana via
Austrian Hut. After point Lenana (17,058ft), descend down to Met Station
for dinner and overnight.
Day
5: Met Station - Nairobi.
After
breakfast, descend the last bit of the Mountain from Met Station via Naro
Moru Main gate for a short drive to Naro Moru town for lunch and to catch
transport to Nairobi where the tour ends.
(II)
SIRIMON ROUTE
Day
1: Nairobi - Nanyuki
Leave
Nairobi accompanied by our mountain guide for lunch. Spend the afternoon
acclimatizing with to the Equator crossing. Dinner and overnight at a hotel
in Nanyuki.
Day
2: Nanyuki - Old Moses Camp.
Transfer
from your Nanyuki hotel after breakfast to the Park gate where the climbing
starts. Walk through the rain forest for 9kms(5 hours walk) to the first
mountain hut - Old Moses (3,300m) for dinner and overnight.
Day
3: Old Moses - Shipton Camp.
After
breakfast in Old Moses, continue climbing through Mackinders Valley to
the second hut (4,200m) for dinner and overnight.
Day
4: Shipton Hut - Old Moses Camp.
Early
in the morning, we climb to Point Lenana 4,985m (17,058ft). On a very clear
day, we should be able to see Mount Kilimanjaro in the south, Mount Elgon
to the west and Indian Ocean to the east. We descend to Old Moses for the
night.
Day
5: Old Moses - Nairobi
After
breakfast, transfer from Old Moses to catch transport to Nairobi where
the tour ends.
(III)
UP SIRIMON - DOWN CHOGORIA ROUTES
Day
1: Nairobi – Nanyuki Leave Nairobi accompanied by our Mountain guide arriving
Nanyuki in time for lunch. Afternoon is spent in Nanyuki acclimatizing.
Dinner and
overnight
in a hotel in Nanyuki.
Day
2: Nanyuki - Old Moses Camp.
After
breakfast, drive to Sirimon Park Gates and begin your 5 hours hike to Old
Moses Camp, 3000m above sea level for meals and overnight at the hut.
Day
3: Old Moses - Shipton Camp
After
breakfast walk form Old Moses Camp via Mackinders Valley to Shiptons Camp
(4200m). Dinner and Overnight at the camp.
Day
4: Shipton Camp - Point Lenana - Mintos Hut
Wake
up very early in the morning around 2.30am ready to hike to Point Lenana(4985m).
On a clear day, we should be able to see Mt. Kilimanjaro to the East and
other sites all part of measuring dawn all sunrise. After Point Lenana,
descend to Mintos (4250m) for breakfast then proceed to Roadhead for dinner
and overnight.
Day
5: Roadhead - Chogoria - Nairobi.
After
breakfast an early walk will take us to Chogoria for lunch then back to
Nairobi arriving in the afternoon having conquered Mt.Kenya. |