Mount Kenya National Park

Mt Kenya is Africa's second highest peak two main peaks – Batian 5,200metres) and Nelion (5,188 metres).

The mountains slopes are cloaked in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and snow.

It is an imposing extinct volcano dominating the landscape of the Kenyan Highlands and an important water catchment area, supplying the Tana and Northern Ewaso Nyiro systems.

The park includes a variety of habitats ranging from higher forest, bamboo, alpine moorlands, glaciers, tarns and glacial morains.

The park covers an area of 600 sq km (232 sq miles), offers exotic mountain scenery, starting with upland forest near the bottom and progressing to mountain forest, bamboo forests and glacier peaks.

A wide variety of wildlife inhabits the park, some unique to it, including Sykes and Colobus monkeys, buffalo, elephants, black rhinos, leopards, the elusive Bongo antelopes and giant forest hogs.

Mount Kenya National Park is also home to many species of birds such as the giant kingfisher, olive pigeons and red-fronted parrots.

Major Attractions:
Pristine wilderness, lakes, tarns, glaciers and peaks of great beauty, geological variety, forest, mineral springs, rare and endangered species of animals.