5 DAYS MT KENYACLIMBING NARO MORU ROUTE – TREKKING & CLIMBING MOUNT KENYA

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$650.00

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Overview

This route is the fastest for trekkers summit Point Lenana (4985m). It can be ascended in only 4 days and has bunkhouses at each camp so a tent is not necessary. The terrain is usually good, although one section is called the Vertical Bog. The track starts in Naro Moru town and heads past the Park Headquarters up the ridge between the Northern and Southern Naro Moru Rivers. At the roadhead is the Meteorological Station, to which it is possible to drive in the dry season. The route drops down into the Northern Naro Moru Valley to Mackinder’s Camp on the Peak Circuit Path

 

Distance: 40 km | Difficulty: Demanding | Start/Finish: Nairobi


TOUR PACKAGE INCLUDES:
  • Guarantee price/guarantee trek on confirmation
  • Transfer to and from the base of the mountain
  • Full board accommodation whilst on the trek
  • Meal plan as detailed: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
  • Accommodations in camps/huts As outlined in the itinerary
  • All park entrance fees to include government taxes
  • Service of an English speaking professional guide, porters and skilled cook
  • Start and finish Nairobi
  • Treated water on the trek
  • On completion, successful climb Certificate

TOUR COSTING EXCLUDES
  • Laundry, tips, sleeping bags, drinks, accommodation before the trek and climbing gears
  • International flights, Visas to Kenya and Items of personal nature.

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ITENARY

Pick up from your hotel and transfer to Naromoru arriving in time for lunch. Afternoon spent sorting out your gear and has a nature walk ready for the big day. Dinner and overnight at mountain lodge or banker house.
Wake up very early for transfer to Naromoru Park Gate for checking formality and this is where hike starts, 2600m from the gate, keep to the park track, which follows the crest of a board ridge between the Northern and Southern Naromoru valleys. The going is easy and it’s a pleasant walking through the forest. About two thirds of the way up after the bridge there striking views to the left north down into the Northern Naromoru valley. The trek ends at Metrological station 3,000m where dinner and overnight stay will be on full board basis.
Head uphill on the track to pass the radio must on your right after about half an hour. The trek runs into a path and after another 30 minutes, you will reach the end of the forest belt and enter the moorland. This is the vertical bog conditions range from damp to glutinous depending on when it last rained. Continue through until the going improves and you reach a fork overlooking Teleki Valley to reach Mackinders Camp, 4,200m. Dinner and overnight at Mackinder Camp for full board meal plan.
The normal approach is to start at 2 am in order to reach point Lenana taking about 4 hr walk by sunrise at 6:30am. After sunrise, descend down to Mackinders Camp for breakfast, 2hrs and walk further 4hrs, way back to Meteorological Station for dinner and overnight stay on full board.
After breakfast, descend through the rainforest which is 9km to Naromoru Park Gate at 2,600m where you will connect with your transport back to Nairobi B and L

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