GREAT OFFERS ON TOURS AND MOUNT KENYA EXPEDITIONS BOOK NOW!!!!!!!
Kenya Youth Hostels Association and African Home Adventure Tours and Safaris
Email [email protected] or [email protected] for great Discounts for Hostelling International card Holders starting 15th may through August 2007.
VISIT www.africahomeadventure.com and www.yhak.org
MT. KENYA TREKKING
Mt. Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain after Kilimanjaro. This extinct volcano is estimated to be 2.5 million years old. Time has taken its toll on the former, reducing the peak from 6500m to 5199 m today, while nature’s untiring eroding agents long ago eroded the crater.
Mt. Kenya is located 180km north of Nairobi within the Mount Kenya National park. The park protected area 3200m above sea level and was established in 1949 and covers an area of 715 sq km. The mountain comprised of three main zones: – the rocky peak zone, the afro-alpine moorland with it’s scattering of giant vegetation and the extensive tower slope covered with mountain forest and a bamboo there are over 81plant species. Any fit and prepared person can reach point Lenana, the so-called trekker’s peak; the summit has the twin peaks of 5199m Batian and Nelion and is considered more technically challenging than the higher Mt Kilimanjaro at 5894m.
Choose between Sirimon-Chogoria and Naro Moru Routes.
