5 DAYS MOUNT KENYA TREKKING – NARO MORU ROUTE

After breakfast the guide will pick you up from the Hotel for a briefing and checklist review, finalizing the safari plan. You will proceed with the guide to connect with shared transport (or a private transfer can be arranged at an extra cost), arriving in Naro Moru in time for lunch. The afternoon is spent sorting out your gear and taking a nature walk to get ready for the big day. Dinner and overnight at a mountain lodge or bunkhouse.

Transfer to Naro Moru Park Gate for registration, where the hike starts at 2,600m. From the gate, keep to the park track, which follows the crest of a broad ridge between the Northern and Southern Naro Moru valleys. The going is easy and it’s a pleasant walk through the forest. About two-thirds of the way up, after the bridge, there are good views to the left, down into the Northern Naro Moru valley. The trek ends at Met Station, 3,000m, where you will have dinner and overnight.

Head uphill on the track, passing the radio mast on your right after about half an hour. The track narrows into a path, and after another 30 minutes you reach the end of the forest belt and enter the moorland, where ‘vertical bog’ conditions range from damp to glutinous depending on recent rain. Continue until the going improves and you reach a fork overlooking Teleki Valley, reaching Mackinder’s Camp, 4,200m. Dinner and overnight at Mackinder’s Camp.

The normal approach is to start around 2am in order to reach Point Lenana by sunrise at about 6:30am, a walk of around 4 hours. After sunrise, descend to Mackinder’s Camp for breakfast (2 hours), then continue a further 4 hours back down to Met Station for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, descend through the rainforest (9km) to Naro Moru Park Gate at 2,600m, where you will connect with your transport back to Nairobi.