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Mount Kenya
Climbing Timau Route |
Timau-Chogoria – 7 Days
Day 1
Leave Nairobi at 8.00 am and drive to Mountain Rock Hotel in
Nanyuki for lunch. The afternoon can be used for an optional
visit to the Sweet Waters game reserve or to the cave
hideouts of the Mau Mau freedom fighters during Kenya's
struggle for independence.
Day 2
After a breakfast you continue northwestwards crossing the
equator and on to the School of Adventure (70 km), the base
of your Mt. Kenya trail at 2900m. Here you meet with guides/
porters and start your climb at 11.30 am.
The 5 hours hike take you to Marania campsite at
(3300m) in middle of the moorland leaving behind a beautiful
forest inhabited by a variety of wildlife. Overnight will be
in a fly camp.
Day 3
After breakfast you continue with the climb heading for
Major's Camp (4000m ). Your path will be surrounded by
plenty of Senecia and Lobelia. Lunch will be at Allan's
point. The hike takes about 6 hours. Your night will be
spent in a fly camp.
Day 4
After breakfast, you proceed with your trek, passing the
scenic Terere and Sendeo peaks. The 6 hours hike takes you
up to 4600m reaching the alpine dessert and down again to
Shipton's Camp at 4200m. Overnight will be at the Shipton 's
Hut where the Mackinders Valley starts.
Day5
Your climb continues taking you round the peaks of Nellion
and Batian, via Hausberg and Nanyuki Tarn to Two Tarn Hut.
Two screeds up to 4600m will have to be passed. Lunch will
be at the two Tarn Hut after which the hike continues down
to Mackinder's Camp at 4200m in the Teleki Valley. Overnight
will be at the Teleki Hut.
Day 6
After an early morning breakfast at 4.00 am, the trek leads
via a steep screed to the Austrian Hut at 4790m. Here there
will be a short break before the final ascend to point
Lenana (4895m) via Lewis Glacier.
You will descend on the northern side via Simba Cole to the
Mintos Hut (4200m) for lunch and continue down on the
Chogoria route, passing on the ridge of the Gorge valley
that overlooks Lake Michaelson. Overnight will be in tents
at the carport (3300m).
Day 7
Today you descend to the Meru Mt. Kenya Bandas at 3000m
where 4 X 4 vehicles will be waiting to take you to Chogoria.
Here you will have lunch, bid the crew good bye and meet
your driver for the transfer to Nairobi or your other onward
destination
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