Mount Kenya National Park
and Mount Kenya Forest Reserve
What you will find on
this page;
Information about Mount Kenya
National Park
Links to Safaris covering Mount
Kenya National Park and links to other
activities you can engage in at the
reserve
Eastern Vacations Tours and Safaris
selected safari lodges in Mount Kenya
National Park
Links to Other Kenya National Parks
with related information
Mount Kenya is an imposing
extinct volcano dominating the landscape of the Kenyan
Highlands, East of the Rift Valley. Mt. Kenya lies about
140 km North, North-East of
Nairobi with its Northern
flanks across the Equator. The mountain has two main
peaks - Batian (5200m) and Nelion (5188m). The mountains
slopes are cloaked in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland
giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and
snow. Mt. Kenya is an important water catchment area,
supplying the Tana and Northern Ewaso Nyiro systems.
The park
includes a variety of habitats ranging from higher forest,
bamboo, alpine moorlands, glaciers, tarns and glacial
morains. The park,
which was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in
1997 and is also a Biosphere Reserve, covers 715 km2, and
includes the Peaks consisting of all the ground above 3200m
with two small salients extending lower down to 2450m along
the Sirimon and Naro Moru tracks.
Surrounding the park is Mount Kenya National Reserve with an
area of approximately 2095 km2 Major
attractions include; 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.