10 Days Mt Kenya Sirimon down chogoria safari combined with Lake Nakuru/Masai Mara safari
Trip Summary:
The tour takes you to climb Mount Kenya; this is an African challenging mountain. Although good health, fitness and experience is required but the mountain team with professional and qualified guide and porters will help you to make it. You will enjoy the trekking it self, landscape and high altitude on your way thru various points of views as per itinerary.
The tour takes you to experience wildlife in Masai Mara Game Reserve for 2 nights; Masai Mara extends southwards to the Great Serengeti National Park in Tanzania where thousands of wildebeest and zebra migrate around the two park for green pasture and water.
You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas, also peoples and culture. Availability 90%
Minimum Rate Per Adult: US$
Departing From: Nairobi
Duration: 10 Days / 9 Nights Mount Kenya Climbing - Wildlife safari
Departure Time: 0830 Hrs (possible to leave earlier than)
Departures: Daily
Minimum Persons Required: 2
Best Time: All round the year
Trip Itinerary:
10 Days Mt Kenya
Sirimon down chogoria safari combined with Lake Nakuru/Masai Mara safari
A 10 Days adventure Mount Kenya trek /wildlife safari that combines the
two most scenic routes of Mt Kenya. Ascent is on the dry side of
mountain which offers some of the finest walking. Climb up through
forest into a wide ridge approach to the summit area then proceed for a
game viewing safari via the scenic floor of the great rift valley into
the world famous Bird Sanctuary of Lake Nakuru, then South over the Mau
Escarpment to Kenya's greatest concentration of game - the Maasai Mara
game reserve where the annual wildebeest migration takes place every
year starting from July through to October.
Day 1 : Arrival – Nairobi
Meet and assist Services at Jomo Kenyatta airport Nairobi then transfer
to Boulevard hotel for overnight stay in readiness for an adventure
trekking safari to start the following morning.
Day 2: Nairobi/Sirimon/Judmier Camp (Old Moses Camp) 3-4 hrs, 9km, 860m
ascent
Leave Nairobi at 8 am to Nanyuki town for lunch, taking about 4 hours.
Proceed to Sirimon Gate, 1 hr, 2440m. From the gate follow the track as
it winds uphill though the forest which becomes heath land after about 3
hrs. About 3½ hours from the gate the track veers right to Judmier Camp,
3300m for dinner and overnight,
Day 3: Judmier Camp/Shipton Camp 6-7hrs, 14km, 900m ascent
After breakfast, follow the track uphill, forking left at the junction.
After one hour from Old Moses Camp, the track crosses Ontulili River. Go
right contouring through the Moorland and crossing Liki North and
continue uphill to Mackinders Valley from where there are panoramic
views up the valley towards the main peaks. Dinner and overnight at
Shipton Camp, 4200m,
Day 4: Shipton Camp
Spend the day acclimatizing. Walk to Kami Hut down to Hauseberg Lakes (Hauseberg
Tarn and Nanyuki Tarn). Walk back to Shipton for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Shiptons/Point Lenana/Mount Meru Bandas (Chogoria Gate) 6 hrs,
14km, 785m ascent
Leave at 3am up a steep stony quarry that cuts through a cliff clearing
visible part towards lower Hall Tarns arriving point Lenana at 6:30am,
taking about 3hrs. After the sunrise, descend down to Mintos hut, 2hrs,
for breakfast and further hrs down to Mount Meru Bandas, 2950m, for
dinner and overnight,
Day 6: Chogoria Bandas/Chogoria/Lake Nakuru
Descend 2hr, 15km to forest clearance to catch a 4x4 transfer vehicle to
Chogoria connect with your transfer vehicle to Lake Nakuru - dinner and
overnight relaxation at a hotel in Nakuru
Day 7 : Nakuru National park - full day game drives
Early breakfast then proceed for a full day game drives at Lake Nakuru
national park with packed lunches.Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel
Lake Nakuru's claim to fame is anchored on its flamingo's and the over
400 species of birds found here. The lake itself is a soda lake on the
floor of the rift valley. The sight of the at times millions of
flamingos is quite spectacular. From a distance the lake appears ringed
in pink. The Lake has also earned a reputation as an important haven for
endangered species- particularly the Rothschild Giraffe and the black
and white rhino. Lions, waterbuck, buffalo and baboons are all residents
here
Day 8: Nakuru - Masai Mara
Depart the camp soon after breakfast and drive via the scenic floor of
the Great Rift Valley to Masai Mara. Lunch at a campsite before
proceeding for evening gamedrives.Dinner and overnight stay at Mara
Sidai Camp
Day 9: Masai Mara
Full day spent exploring the park in search of the big 5.Morning and
afternoon game drives are offered. Optional hot air balloon safari can
be arranged at an extra cost of US$ 450 per person. Dinner and overnight
stay at Mara Sidai Camp
The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is
difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded
here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe,
wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs,
buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the
Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes
place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra
from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following
on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild
dog, jackal, hyena and vultures
Day 10: Masai Mara- Nairobi
Morning game drive then return to the campsite for breakfast. We drive
back to Nairobi dinner at the Carnivore restaurant then transfer to the
airport to board your home bound flight.
Tour cost per person
Tour price includes :-
--Transport in a Custom made tour Van with a pop up roof
-Transfer to and from the base of the mountain
-1night accommodation in Nairobi on bed and breakfast in a twin
-Full board accommodation whilst on safari and on the mountain
--All park entrance fees to include government taxes
- Return airport transfers
- Accommodations in self contained Tents in Masai Mara/Budget hotel in
Nakuru
-Service of an English speaking professional driver/guide
-All game drives as detailed in the itinerary
--1 litre bottled mineral water whilst on safari
-Treated water on the trek.
-Shared accommodations in camps/huts on the mountain as per the
itinerary
-Service of an English speaking professional guide, porters and skilled
cook
Excluded:
-Tips, laundry, sleeping bags, beverages/Drinks and climbing gears
-Medical evacuation (if you need this, US$ 25/person value exclusive of
hospitalization and treatment bills)
-Drinks
-International flights
-Passport and visa
-Items of personal nature
Mount Kenya Climbing Safaris | Climbing
Mount Kenya expeditions
Mount Kenya Natural History
Mount Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain at 5,199m (17,058 feet)
and the highest of all Kenya Mountains. Mount Kenya is roughly circular,
about 60km across at the 200mm contour, where the steep font hills rise
out of the gentler slopes of the centered highlands. At the centre of
the massif, the main peaks rise sharply from around 4,500m to the main
summit of Batian 5,199m, Nelion 5,188m and point Lenana 4,985m. Other
major summits on the mountain include Point Piggott 4,957m, Point Dutton
4,885 and Point John 4,883m. Of the three main peaks (Batian, Lenana and
Nelion), only point Lenana can be reached by trekkers and the other two
being only for technical climbers.
Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa and stands somewhat
unjustly in the shadow of it's taller neighbour Kilimanjaro, which lies
some 320km away in the south and is visible on a clear day. Kili may see
much more traffic - due to the possibility of summiting via several
non-technical trekking routes and due to the sometimes dubious honour of
being one of the Seven Summits - but Mount Kenya offers a wealth of
excellent and diverse climbing possibilities on rock, snow and ice.
The rock on Mount Kenya can be of variable quality but is at it's best
high on the mountain where the syenite rock is similar to granite -
rough, hard and well endowed with features.
Apart from the superb climbing potential on Mount Kenya, its tarns and
alpine meadows; exotic, equatorial, high-altitude vegetation; sunbirds,
hyrax and soaring eagles make the walk around the peaks one of the most
beautiful expeditions in the East African mountains.
After the cultivated farmlands on the lower slopes the trails pass
through the rain forest, rich in trees of many species but noticeably
camphors, then onto a bamboo zone growing to heights of more than 12m or
more up through open moor land before reaching the moonscape of higher
slopes. The forests are rich in wildlife including elephant, buffalo and
monkeys with even the moor lands offering a long list of mammals
including the rock hyrax, the nearest living relative of the elephant.
Mt. Kenya is an ancient volcanic mountain much older than Mt.
Kilimanjaro. It’s believed to have once reached well above 600m. What is
left today is volcanic plug which erosion has fashioned into the complex
jagged outline of the central peaks.
