3 Days Mount Kenya Trek

3 Days Mount Kenya Trek : Straddling the equator, and an extinct volcano some 3.5 million years old, Mount Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain after Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The two highest jagged peaks, Batian (5,199m) and Nelion (5,189), are permanently iced with snow and glaciers. This 3-day climb to reach the third-highest peak, Point Lenana (4,985m), on the Naro Moru route provides the shortest and steepest way to the top and is the quickest going down.

Highlights of 3 Days Mount Kenya Trek

  • Day 1: Nairobi – Naro Moru Route (200 kms, 3 to 4 hours)
  • Day 2: Hike Up Teleki Valley to Mackinder’s Camp
  • Day 3: Ascend Mount Kenya – Nairobi – (200 kms, 3 to 4 hours)

Detailed itinerary of 3 Days Mount Kenya Trek

Day 1: Nairobi – Naro Moru Route (200 kms, 3 to 4 hours)

After breakfast, we depart Nairobi at 07:30am, and drive north through Kikuyu-land and rich farmland, where coffee and pineapple plantations flourish in the fertile foothills of Mount Kenya. The road climbs gently and steadily to the market town of Naro Moru, which serves as the most straightforward base for our mountain trek and marks the entrance to the Mount Kenya National Park. After a picnic lunch we begin our trek from the park and you leave the conifer plantations and occasional Shambas behind as the path twists and climbs through shaggy forest into a zone of colossal bamboo. We hike as far as the Met Station (3048m), which takes 3-4 hours gaining an elevation of 600m, and this is where you spend the first night in bandas with bunk beds.

  • Overnight in Mount Kenya
  • Accommodation at Mountain lodge cabins
  • Lunch & dinner included
  • Drinking water is provided. All other drinks are extra.

Day 2: Hike Up Teleki Valley to Mackinder’s Camp

After an early start from the Met Station, we hike into the Teleki Valley and the route crosses a boggy area, and up into another vegetation zone of giant heather. You follow the contours across the valley side and jump, or cross by stepping stones, over the snowmelt in the Naro Moru Steam. Then the path follows a high ridge with the peaks of Batian and Nelion towering magnificently above. The day’s hike from the Met Station to Mackinder’s Camp (4,100m) takes 5-6 hours over a 1200m ascent and accommodation is in a cozy stone hut with bunk beds.

  • Overnight in Mount Kenya
  • Accommodation at Mackinders Camp
  • Breakfast, lunch & dinner included
  • Drinking water is provided. All other drinks are extra.

Day 3: Ascend Mount Kenya – Nairobi – (200 kms, 3 to 4 hours)

A pre-dawn start is made to ensure a successful summit of Point Lenana (4,985m) and in time for a clear view of Mount Kenya’s Peak before the clouds descend. We depart around 3 am and the final trek takes 3-4 hours across bare rock and scree slopes, allowing you to get the summit by dawn for a fabulous view – in the right conditions, from northern Kenya on one side to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on the other.

3 Days Mount Kenya Trek
Mackinder’s Camp

The descent doesn’t take long, and after congratulating yourself for the tremendous achievement of summiting Mount Kenya, we take a short break for breakfast back at Mackinder’s, and get all the way down to the Met Station and the park gate. Here you will meet our driver for the journey back to the Nairobi and will arrive in the early evening.

  • No accommodation included
  • Breakfast and lunch included, but not dinner
  • Drinking water is provided. All other drinks are extra.

What’s Included?

  • All transfers from and to Nairobi Hotel or Airport
  • All accommodations during the trekking tour
  • All meals, hot and unlimited drinking water during the tour
  • Flying Doctors medical, emergency, and rescue cover
  • Well experienced, English speaking tour leader and guide
  • Dedicated support crew: assistant guides, camp master, porters, cooks
  • All applicable government taxes, levies and entry fees
  • Eco-friendly, stainless steel, safari water bottle
  • Personalized private service

What’s Not Included?

  • International flights and taxes
  • Passports and visa applications and processing
  • Travel insurance
  • Tips and gratuities for drivers/guides
  • Personal laundry
  • Alcoholic drinks
  • Entrance fee for activities noted as optional
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