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Mount Kenya National Park

There are 12 remnant glaciers in Mount Kenya, all receding rapidly, and four secondary peaks that sit at the head of the u-shaed glacial valleys. With it's rugged glaciers-clad summits and forested middle slopes, Mount Kenya is one of the mst impressove landscape in East Africa.

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When a German missionary in 1833 reported a snow capped mountain just 10 miles south of the equator, everybody tought he was quite mad. It still sounds absurd but it is true Mount Kenya National park includes a variety of habitats ranging from higher forests, bamboo, alpine moorlands, glaciers, tarns and glacial morines.

Mount Kenyais an extinct volcano dominating the landscape of the Kenya highlands and is often abscured by clouds but when it clears a magnificent snowy peak appears and dominates the skyline and permanent glaciers grace its slopes. It's existence was confirmed to the western world in 1849 but it still took another 50 years before anyone climbed to the 16,900-foot summit.

It is an ancient extinct volcano, during whose period of activity (3.1-26.6) million years ago it is thought to have risen to 21,300ft.

There are 12 remnant glaciers in the mountain, all receding rapidly, and four secondary peaks that sit at the head of the u-shaed glacial valleys. With it's rugged glaciers-clad summits and forested middle slopes, Mount Kenya is one of the mst impressove landscape in East Africa.

Kenya Central High lands are full of intrigue and the local kikuyu people believe that their God inhibits Mt. Kenya. As a result they always position their houses to face towards this sacrad peak. The park was inscribed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997 and is also a biosphere reserve, covers 715 sq kilometers and includes small salients. The climate, Flora and fauna vary with altitude.

Woni Safaris a leading tour opperater in Kenya makes it possible to see all these features meet the local peple and appreciate the kenyan culture.

The altitude ranging between 11,000 and 16,900 feet the National parK is only 175 kilometers north of Nairobi approximately 3 hours drive with the equator line running through the area. There are a number of airstrips in this area which is also serviced by a daily schduled flight.

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