Mount Kenya Tour

After breakfast at your hotel in Nanyuki, you'll be picked up by a private driver early enough to avoid the city traffic jam as you make your way to Mount Kenya National Park . This is the highest peak in Kenya and the second highest in Africa, so keep your camera close. The scenery as you enter the park is breathtaking. Mount Kenya is not only a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve but also a UNESCO World Heritage Site as well. Within its boundaries are landscapes including alpine vegetation and dense forests, lakes, glaciers, mineral springs, as well as rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Visitors to the park come for a range of outdoor pursuits like hiking, rock climbing, and caving (also known as spelunking). Once you reach the park gate you will adjust your gears, fill out some park entry paperwork, and then lace up for a 5.6-mile (9 km) hike to Old Moses Mountain Camp for your overnight. This is a well-run mountain bandas at (3300 m) and a common first stop along the popular Sirimon trekking route. There are clean bathrooms, dormitory bunks with a kitchen and dining area, and spacious grounds for setting up tents. In the evening you'll have dinner at the camp and the ability to meet fellow trekkers from around the world.

After breakfast, follow the track uphill, forking right at the junction. After a water break, you continue on the track crossing Ontulili River before turning right contouring through the Moorland and crossing Liki North River and continue uphill to Mackinders Valley from where there are panoramic views up the valley towards the Shipton Camp. This camp is a surreal setting below the towering peaks and glaciers. The resident population is of Rock hyrax and sunbirds.

Kick-off at 3.am to reach pt Lenana in time for the African sunrise. The climb starts on frozen scree and continues on a rocky track with some very minor scrambling. With a good Moon, you barely need a torch. Without a Moon, then the pollution-free sky bangs on the ground giving you as good a view of the stars as almost anywhere on Earth. The climb takes 3 -4 hrs and to add to the exhilaration, Mt. Kilimanjaro is also visible from the horizon. Descend to Minto's hut for full breakfast. After a short rest descend further to Mt Kenya bandas along the gorges valley where you can enjoy good views of The Temple, Lake Michaelson, Mushroom rocks and Giant billiards table. Dinner and overnight at the Bandas. You can enjoy log fires, hot showers, and bed at the Bandas!

After breakfast, descend on a broad track through bamboo and virgin rain forest to meet vehicle for transfer to Chogoria town and further to Nanyuki

For the pressed-for-time and the spontaneous, Ol Pejeta is one of the best wildlife conservancies in Kenya to do a day trip. This is because it's large enough to accommodate a whole host of unique activities, game drive routes, and diverse wildlife, but small enough that you can do almost all of them in eight hours. After a morning game drive, day-trippers can visit the chimpanzees and endangered species enclosure, before grabbing a bite to eat at Morani's Restaurant, the Safari Diner, or parking up in a designated campsite for a picnic. Then drive in the afternoon to Nairobi