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After
breakfast depart from your Nairobi hotel and transfer to Nanyuki
town set on the foot-hill of Mount Kenya; arrive in time for lunch.
Spend the afternoon acclimatizing, sorting out and
 organizing all
the requirement for your Mount Kenya
Trekking/Hiking/Climbing safari. Dinner and overnight in a hotel.
After
breakfast drive to Sirimoni park gate. Hike to Old Moses hut in an
average hiking time of 3 hours ,lunch en-route. This hike is very
essential for acclimatizing and quite educative as far as the
vegetation is concerned. Dinner and overnight at the hut which is
3,300 m above sea level.
An early start
for Shiptons hut, altitude 4,200 m in an average hiking time of 6
hours, lunch en-route. Sirimoni route lies on the north –western side of
Mount Kenya and generally escapes some rainfall making it drier than
other route most of the year .Dinner and overnight in Shiptons hut.
 Wake-up to a
pre-down attempt of Point Lenana, 4,985 m above sea level. If you
are fortunate and the weather is clear ,you may see Mount Kilimanjaro to
the south ,Mount Elgon to the west and even the Indian ocean to the
East. After your photography and viewing opportunity ,surrounded by
glaciers and ice rock caves ,descend leisurely to Mackinders camp on
the Naro Moru trail. Lunch en-route. The altitude here is 4,200 m
above sea level. The hut is on Teleki valley opposite the main
peaks. Dinner and overnight at the hut.
After
breakfast ,descend to met station in roughly 3 hours .Exit and join
your driver and proceed to Naro Moru town for lunch. There after
drive back to Nairobi arriving late in the afternoon. Drop off at the
airport or your resident hotel.
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