Destination Overview
Climbing to 5,199 meters, Mount Kenya is the second tallest mountain in Africa. The scenery surrounding this designated World Heritage Site is breath-taking. It is pristine wilderness with lakes, tarns, glaciers, dense forest, mineral springs and a selection of rare and endangered species of animals, high altitude adapted plains game and unique montane and alpine vegetation. Visitors can enjoy mountain climbing, camping and caving with the mountain’s rugged glacier-clad peaks providing the perfect backdrop.
What to see and do
Visitors are drawn to Mt. Kenya National Park by pristine wilderness, lakes, tarns, glaciers and peaks of great beauty, geological variety, forest, mineral springs rare and endangered species of animals, game, unique mountain and alpine vegetation with 11 species of endemic plants. They include the elephant, tree hyrax, white tailed mongoose, suni, black-fronted duiker, mole rat, bushbucks, waterbuck and elands. Rarely seen include leopard, giant forest hog and rhino. 130 bird species have been recorded. Mt. Kenya National Park offers easy and challenging ascents with superb scenic beauty. To the Agikuyu who live near it, the mountain is the home of the Supreme Being Ngai, a name also used in some variation by the Maasai and Kamba people. Pristine wilderness, lakes, tarns, glaciers and peaks of great beauty, geological variety, forest, mineral springs, rare and endangered species of animals, High altitude adapted plains game, Unique montane and alpine vegetation with 11 species of endemic plants.
How to get to Mt. Kenya National Park
Mt. Kenya National Park can be reached through the Nanyuki-Isiolo road via Sirimon Track or Nyeri-Nanyuki road near Naro-Moru. Another route is via Chogoria on the Embu–Meru road, about 150km north of Nairobi. The closest commercial airstrip to the park is at Nanyuki. The KWS offers self-catering accommodation at Batian Guesthouse and Sirimon Bandas. Camping facilities are available at Kinondoni, Road Head, Mintos Hut, Naro-moru Gate, Met Station, Mackinder’s, Austrian Hut, Judmaier, Shipton, Liki North Hut 7 and Solo.
