Itinerary

1. NAIROBI – MT KENYA BANDAS (2,900M) 3HRS, 10KM WALK, 950M ASCENT

   • Get picked up from your hotel, airport or a residential house in the morning as early as 07:30 am by the Kenyan guides. Then depart Nairobi at 08:00 am, driving through agricultural country up to Chogoria town for lunch.

   • After lunch, take a 4×4 and drive up to the edge of the bamboo forest where you start your trekking through the dense bamboo forest for a distance of 10 km to the Mount Kenya Bandas.

   Dinner and overnight at the Bandas: full board.

2. CHOGORIA MOUNT KENYA BANDAS – 4HRS, 16KM WALK, 950M ASCENT

   • Leave your hotel in Nairobi at 7 am to Chogoria town for an early lunch.

   • After lunch, take a 4x4WD vehicle to the forest clearance, 16 km from where the walk starts. You will walk for 16 km through the forest along with the dirt and sometimes very muddy road for 4 hrs to reach Mount Meru Bandas at 2950m.

   Dinner and overnight at the Bandas: full board.

3. MOUNT MERU BANDAS – ROAD HEAD CAMP, 3HRS, 9KM, 350M ASCENT

   • After breakfast, follow the track through giant heather and forest up to Chogoria road. Head from where the path drops to cross a stream then follows the broad ridge to the east of the gorges valley to reach Road Head Camp taking approximately 3-4 hrs.

   Overnight at Road Head Camp at 3300m.

   Dinner and overnight at Road Head Camp: full board.

4. ROAD HEAD – MINTOS HUT – 4 HRS, 12KM

   • After breakfast, follow the track through giant heather and forest up to Chogoria road. Head from where the path drops to cross a stream then follows the broad ridge to the east of the gorges valley to reach Mintos Hut, 4200m.

   Dinner and overnight at Mintos Hut: full board.

5. MINTOS – POINT LENANA – MET STATION – 11 to 12 HRS, 29KM, 785M ASCENT – 1985M DESCENT

   • Leave shortly after midnight at 2 am for the main peaks and take a break after an hour, above a flat green area at the head of the valley known as temple fields, arriving at point Lenana at 6:30 am.

   • After taking photographs, descend to Mackinders for breakfast and continue down to Met Station at 3000m.

   Dinner and overnight at Met Station: full board.

6. MET STATION – NAROMORU – NAIROBI – 3HRS, 9KM, 400M DESCENT

   • After breakfast, descend through the rain forest which is 9 km to Naromoru Park Gate at 2,600m where you will connect with your transport back to Nairobi, arriving at approximately 3 pm.