Mount Kenya Tours

Mount Kenya Trek — Sirimon Route to Point Lenana (5 Days)

Mount Kenya — 5,199 metres of ancient volcanic plug straddling the equator — is Africa's second-highest mountain. This five-day trek follows the Sirimon route up one of the mountain's gentler approaches, passing through every vegetation zone: dense montane forest, giant bamboo, heather moorland studded with lobelia, and finally the lunar rock above 4,500 metres. The target is Point Lenana (4,985m), the trekking summit — no ropes, no crampons, just steady walking and a pre-dawn push to arrive at the summit for a sunrise that spills across the jagged peaks of Batian and Nelion. You descend via the Chogoria route, the most beautiful way off the mountain, past tarns and waterfalls, through the Gorges Valley, and out to the high moorland where you'll want to keep looking back.