MOUNT KENYA NATIONAL PARK

Mount Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain. It is also unexpectedly different and therefore too good to miss. The combination of its altitude and its position astride the Equator results in the formation of vegetation like water holding cabbage, ostrich plume plant, and giant groundsel that exists only here and at very few other lofty points in East Africa.

Bation and Nelion, twin peaks of the mountain dominate Mount Kenya National Park. The vegetation of the park from bottom to top is as follows: rich and sub alpine flora to bamboo forests, moorlands and tundra. In the lower forest and bamboo zones roam the giant forest hog, tree hyrax, white tailed mongoose, elephant, suni, duiker and leopard. The high altitude bamboo forest is infested with mighty gorges, sylvan glades and trout streams. Up in the moorlands are the hyrax, duiker and Mount Kenya mouse shrews. Higher altitudes host the fairly common mole rats and the very rare golden cat.