This route on Mount Kenya is the most beautiful and rewarding for hikers interested in spectacular landscapes and sceneries. The route takes you through places like; Lake Ellis, Nithi waterfalls, and lake Michaelson.
This route is exclusively on Camping basis with time to local explore around your campsites thus making it enjoyable. This is a sample of itinerary of the route and decent via Sirimon route starting from Nairobi and back.
Cost per person:
Start and end in Nairobi City. A customized tour can be organized from different locations in Kenya
Leave from hotel/residence early morning and drive via the great northern road passing rice plantations and eastern highlands arriving Chogoria town in 4 hours. It is from this town you will meet the rest of your climbing crew (porters and guides) and proceed with the driving through rain forest for about 1 hour. Check in the park, have lunch and all the formalities involved ( note that the park entrance fees are only payable via Mpesa or credit card). The trekking starts at Chogoria park gate through rush forests via Nithi waterfalls proceeding to lake Ellis. Dinner and overnight at your campsite.
After having breakfast, leave the camp trekking along a single trail through alpine and moorland vegetation. Lunch will have been packed for you. Dinner and night at your campsite at Mintos camp
wake up at 0200 hrs ready and take some tea , coffee and some snacks and attempt the predawn summit trek and reach at the summit at 0600hrs and enjoy magical sunrise on the summit
Later descend to mintos camp for breakfast fast and then descend back to chogoria bandas enjoy a hot shower and a bonfire in the bandas and spend the night at the bandas
*Day 4: You will be picked up from the bandas after breakfast and drive back to Nairobi arrive by noon.
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