5 Days Mount Kenya Trekking Naro Moru Route

Venture Africa Budget Safaris representative will meet you at the airport or your hotel and after your breakfast. You will be introduced to your guide and given a full briefing regarding your trek programme. Once these final details are settled you start your journey in shared transport from Nairobi to Naro Moru, with a private transfer available if needed, arriving in time for lunch. The afternoon is spent sorting out your gear and taking a nature walk in readiness for the big day. Dinner and overnight at a mountain lodge or bunkhouse.

Transfer to Naro Moru park gate at 2600m for registration, where the hike starts. 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 is pleasant walking through the forest. About two thirds of the way up, after the bridge, there are good views to the left north down into the northern Naro Moru valley. The trek ends at the Met Station at 3000m, where you have dinner and overnight.

Head uphill on the track, passing the radio mast on your right after about half an hour. The track runs into a path and after another 30 minutes you reach the end of the forest belt and enter the moorland. This is the Vertical Bog, where conditions range from damp to glutinous depending on when it last rained. Continue through until the going improves and you reach a fork overlooking the Teleki Valley, arriving at Mackinder’s Camp at 4200m. Dinner and overnight at Mackinder’s Camp.

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

After breakfast, descend 9km through the rainforest to Naro Moru park gate at 2600m, where you connect with your transport back to Nairobi.