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Mount Longonot Day Trip: Longonot Day trekking

Longonot Day Hiking and trekking

Mount Longonot hiking and trekking to the highest point of the Great Rift Valley will provide for you the opportunity to experience the flexibility and marvelous wild of East Africa, and still be home in time for supper. Mt Longonot is simply under 2780m (9100ft) above ocean level with a tree-filled inside and a forlorn steam vent to the northeast. A move up Mount Longonot is a perfect day trip from either Nairobi or Naivasha. It is a wonderful acclimatization and fitness hiking for those looking to go Mount Kenya climbing, which is Kenya's official highest snow-peak at 5199m and located along the Equator.

Mt Longonot hiking outing departing from Nairobi at 7.30am and the adventure takes give or take 1 and a half hours. Your begin the climb at 2,150m and, in the same way as all great tough climbs, it will calm you into an incorrect conviction that all is well with the world with a moderate delicate climb to the first slope. This provides for you an opportunity to get your lungs and appendages arranged for the second segment which, as we would see it, is generally great. Toward the end of every area there is a rest point where you can set yourself up for the following piece of your excursion to Mount Longonot day trekking.

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Notwithstanding setting off right on time to evade the high temperature of the sun, when you achieve the end of the second area you will have unquestionably created your own hotness. This climb is not a simple trek yet is achievable by individuals of sensibly great wellness. When you have completed the second segment, you are on the edge of the pit. There is an alternate break of marginally less requesting territory, before making the last get on the fourth area. This again is a requesting area, however not as requesting as the second. As you hurl yourself over the edge of the hole you are remunerated with the great sight of Naivasha and the Great Rift Valley and an inclination that it was all advantageous.

Note: Before making Mount Longonot hike ascension you will need to adjust at 6000 feet. A diversion officer goes hand in hand with you on the trek as your aide. As there are wild creatures in the range, the extent is furnished. The entire trek is just around 8–9 km long yet exceptionally steep, to such an extent that the round excursion from park entryway to the Longonot Peak and back again takes around 5 hours of climb.

Trekking / hiking Itinerary:

07:30 am: Pick from hotel in Nairobi
09:00am: Arrival at Mount Longonot National Park Gate for registration
09:30am: Start the hike
13:30pm: Descend and transfer for lunch
15:00pm: Start journey back to Nairobi
16:30pm~17:00pm: Drop off at hotel

Mount Longonot hike price: $160 per person (minimum 2 people to guarantee departure)

Included in the Longonot hike price: Transport to/from Nairobi, all entry fees, guide and lunch.

Not Included in the price of the hiking: Accommodation, Personal insurance, visas, items of a personal nature, tips, drinks.

What to bring on Longonot day trekking: Day pack, camera, sunhat, enough drinking water, waterproof clothing, sunscreen, hiking boots, walking poles (optional) and warm fleece.

Mount Longonot hiking can be combined with Mount Kenya climbing. Learn more about the available Mount Kenya climbing routes with Mount Longonot day trekking being a good option to acclimatize.

Longonot day trekking and hiking in Great Rift Valley


 
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Mt.Kenya hiking - Mount Longonot hiking

Mount Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain at 5,199m (17,058 feet) and the highest of all Kenya Mountains. Mount Kenya is roughly circular, about 60km across at the 200mm contour, where the steep font hills rise out of the gentler slopes of the centered highlands. At the centre of the massif, the main peaks rise sharply from around 4,500m to the main summit of Batian 5,199m, Nelion 5,188m and point Lenana 4,985m. Other major summits on the mountain include Point Piggott 4,957m, Point Dutton 4,885 and Point John 4,883m. Of the three main peaks (Batian, Lenana and Nelion), only point Lenana can be reached by trekkers and the other two being only for technical climbers.

Climbing mount kilimanjaro

Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro stands on featureless part of the East African plateau, on the Tanzanian side of the Kenya border near Moshi, side by side with the smaller Mount Meru. These mountains are extinct volcanoes, with Kilimanjaro actually being the agglomeration of three distinct volcanoes, Kibo (5896m/ 19,340 ft), Mwenzi (5,149 / 16,896 ft) and Shira (3,962m / 13,000 ft). whose violent creation is geologically associated with the creation of the Great Rift Valley, 100km to the West.

Hiking Mount Meru

Mount Meru is Mount Kilimanjaro's little sister, standing at 4,566m compared to 5,895m, but is still an impressive freestanding volcano, which makes a superb four day climb to the top. It last erupted in 1910 therefore can be classified as an active volcano. The first Mount Meru ascent was made by Dr. Fritz Jaeger, 1904. The town of Arusha lies at the base of Mount Meru Trekking, loads of trek companies do this trek. Wild animals are frequently found on this mountain therefore an armed ranger usually accompanies the trekkers.

 
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