Mt Kenya National Park is home to Africa's highest mountain. Rising to 5,199m, Mt Kenya offers easy or challenging ascents with superb scenic beauty.
Part of Mt Kenya National Park's fascination is the variation in flora, including giant groundsel and lobelia, and fauna as the altitude changes. The lower slopes are covered with dry upland forest, and the true montane forest beginning at 2,000m is mainly cedar and podo.
At 2,500m begins a dense belt of bamboo forest, which merges into the upperforest of smaller trees, interspersed with glades. In this area the trees are festooned with high altitude lichen, and these forest belts are host to many different animals and plants.
Game to view includes black and white colobus and sykes monkeys, bushbuck, tree and rock hyrax, greater galago, buffalo, elephant and lower down olive baboon, waterbuck, black rhino, black fronted duiker, leopard, giant forest hog, genet cat, bush pig and hyena. More elusive is the bongo, a rare type of forest antelope.
Part of Mt Kenya National Park's fascination is the variation in flora, including giant groundsel and lobelia, and fauna as the altitude changes. The lower slopes are covered with dry upland forest, and the true montane forest beginning at 2,000m is mainly cedar and podo.
At 2,500m begins a dense belt of bamboo forest, which merges into the upperforest of smaller trees, interspersed with glades. In this area the trees are festooned with high altitude lichen, and these forest belts are host to many different animals and plants.
Game to view includes black and white colobus and sykes monkeys, bushbuck, tree and rock hyrax, greater galago, buffalo, elephant and lower down olive baboon, waterbuck, black rhino, black fronted duiker, leopard, giant forest hog, genet cat, bush pig and hyena. More elusive is the bongo, a rare type of forest antelope.
