MT. Kenya Up Sirimon Down Naro Moru (5 Days) ATM 602
Day 1: Nairobi / Nanyuki After breakfast, you will be picked up from your Nairobi hotel. Drive to Nanyuki town. A town set on the foothills of Mt. Kenya, after lunch, spend the rest of the afternoon acclimatizing and sorting out the organizing all the requirements for your trip.
Dinner and overnight at a Nanyuki budget hotel.
Day 2: Nanyuki / Old Moses
After breakfast, drive to the Sirimon Track Park gate. Hike to Old Moses hut in an average hiking time of 3 hours. Lunch enroute. This hike is very essential for acclimatization and quite educative as far as the vegetation is concerned.
Dinner and overnight at the hut, which is 3,300m above sea level.
Day 3: Old Moses / Shiptons
An early start for Shiptons, altitude 4,200m in an average hiking time of 6 hours, lunch enroute. Sirimon route lies on the north – Western side of Mt. Kenya and generally escapes some rainfall, making it drier than other routs most times of the year.
Diner and overnight at the hut.
Day 4: Shiptons / Pt. Lenana / Mackinders
Wake up to a pre-dawn attempt of Pt. Lenana, 4,985m above sea level. If you are fortunate and the weather is clear, You may see Mt. Kilimanjaro to the south, Mt. 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, meals enroute.
The attitude here is 4,200m. The hut is on Teleki Valley opposite the main peaks. Descent will be about 5 hours.
Dinner and overnight at the hut.
Day 5: Mackinders / Nairobi
After breakfast, descend to Met Station is roughly 3 hours and catch your transport to Naro Moru town for lunch then board your transport to Nairobi, arriving in the evening, followed by transfer to airport to fly back home.
