Drive from Nairobi to Kimunye shopping center by transport. The important six (6) kms acclimatization walk we lead you through a part of the equatorial rain forest, you however can be entertained by varieties of game including the black and white colobus monkeys, elephants and even buffaloes if lucky. Dinner and overnight at castle lodge (2081m)
Leave the famous Castle lodge after breakfast for Kamweti. This is through last part of the equatorial rain forest to the beginning of the bamboo zone. The views are just amazing and the experience is unbelievable, lunch, dinner and overnight at upper Kamweti guest house (2650m)
Shoot early enough after breakfast ready for 15km trekking; this is through the beautiful and undisturbed bamboo zone where the real trekking starts. Lunch on the way, dinner and overnight at sagana campsite.
Start by steep climbing from Sagana to join the fragile moorland. The experience is just wonderful and the views are just amazing, with the special mountain plant that never grow below 3500m. lunch en-route, dinner and overnight at Thegu camp (3850m)
Breakfast and depart Thegu camp for Mackinder’s camp. With full time peaks views infront of you, its 13kms trekking through wonderful and fragile moorland. Slow pace rhythm is highly recommended in this day. Packed lunch on the way, dinner and overnight at Mackinder’s camp (4300m)
Pre-dawn continental breakfast and shoot for the summit around 3am. The three hours trekking leads you to point Lenana through Austrian so as to be at the summit at 6.15am to enjoy the African sunrise and a chance to see Kilimanjaro to the south about 316km away. After this magic experience, it’s then a careful descend to Austrian hut again for the real breakfast before proceeding to Major’s camp. Lunch en-route dinner and overnight at the camp Major’s (4000m)
Last breakfast and start descending towards the road head. The three hours walk will eventually leave you at the west Marania camp (road head) for transfer back to civilization, lunch at Nanyuki proceeding to Nairobi where the tour ends.