Photo. Mount Kenya in its full pride! © The Eriksen Adventure, Nairobi, Kenya - www.theeriksenadventure.com
The mountain is located 180 kilometres north of Nairobi and it can often be seen from high-rise buildings in Nairobi and from Thika. It is an extinct volcano, which formed a couple of million years ago.
Mount Kenya has always attracted curious hikers and adventurers. The first documented ascent of the mountain was by the British geographer and explorer Halford Mackinders in the 1800`s. One fascinating movie called The Ascent is about Mount Kenya. It’s based on the true story of an Italian prisoner of war captured in Kenya by the British in 1942 during the African campaign of World War II. The prison camp is located at the base at the foot of Mount Kenya and this beautiful and challenging peak becomes the main point of the film.
The head of the camp, Major David Farrell, has attempted to reach the peak of Mt. Kenya on many occasions and never has succeeded. His continuous failure becomes a joke amongst the prisoners. One prisoner in particular, Franco D'Astassi, who continually tries to escape, becomes the Major's nemesis and ends up succeeding where the Major fails, both on the mountain and with a woman.
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We offer several kind of adventure tours in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Some offers are safari in the Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation area, climbing of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and meeting of exotic tribes. Contact us for more information and tour offers.
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St. Ellis House, 1st Floor, Office 114
City Hall way
P.O.Box 21082 00100 Nairobi - Kenya
Telephone: + 254 20 244834
Fax: +254 20 244836
Mobile: + 254 (0) 722 472 772
E-mail: info@theeriksenadventure.com
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Mount Kenya – Mt. Kenya, rises up in full pride in the Mount Kenya National Park, which is a designated protected area around the mountain above 3200m altitude. The Kenya Wildlife Service manages the park. The national park covers an area of 700 square kilometres and was established in 1949.
Mount Kenya icy summit reaches to 5,199 metres. The National Park consists of all areas above 3,200 m. The mountain actually consists of three distinct zones: the volcanic peak zone, with its endless glaciers and snowfields; the alpine zone, with its distinctive giant vegetation such as groundsels; and the lower slopes, with their thick forest and bamboo vegetation.
To most modern day, adventurers find it still challenging climbing up to the peak of Mount Kenya. It requires extensive mountain climbing skills to reach the top. Nevertheless, most visitors are able to reach the more accessible Point Lenana at 4,985 m and many visitors enjoy simple high altitude walks.
On Mount Kenya there is an ancient extinct volcano, during whose period of activity (3.1–2.6 million years ago). It’s believed to have risen to 6,500 metres.
There are 12 remnant glaciers on the mountain, all receding rapidly, and four secondary peaks that sit at the head of the U-shaped glacial valleys. UNESCO inscribed this site in 1997. The organisation considered it as one of the most impressive landscapes of Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moor lands and diverse forests, which illustrates an outstanding ecological processes
Around Mount Kenya there are plenty of opportunities for safaris. The wildlife below the Park boundary includes elephant, buffalo, antelope, and the rare bongo, also found in the nearby Aberdares.
Most wildlife can be viewed from Mountain Lodge on the south side of the mountain. Mount Kenya can be climbed anytime of the year. However, the best times for visiting Mount Kenya and the National Park are December to February and July, August through to early October, when there are no rains.
Kenya is for genuine adventurers who venture a step further in the wild nature.
Stein Morten Lund, 8 December 2008
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Experience the drama of wildbeast migration between Masai Mara and Serengeti – the world’s greatest wild life spectacle
Get face-to-face with the wildest wild life in the middle of African savannahs. The Eriksen Adventure (website: www.theeriksenadventure.com) offers a wide variety of tour opportunities in East African countries as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
For travellers with genuine adventurous spirit, the wildbeast migration between Masai Mara and Serengeti is really something to experience. The ecosystem here is considered as one of our planet's greatest wildernesses. The migration is an endless pilgrimage, with no beginning or no end, where animals continuously search for food and water.
Another opportunity for unique adventures is the Ngorongoro Conservation area, which is home to the famous volcanic Ngorongoro crater. It`s located near Arusha in Tanzania. This enormous crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world, and notified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
A population of about 25,000 large animals, largely ungulates along with the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa, lives in the crater. Maasai herders graze their cattle amid the wildlife here, which roams freely.
If the wildebeest migration of the Masai Mara and Serengeti, and wild life in Ngorongoro Conservation area is not enough, the Eriksen Adventure offers travellers to combine it with climbing Africa’s highest peaks Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Mt. Kenya in Kenya.
Photo. Wildbeasts on their way to Masai Mara, also called the Eight Wonder of the World.
Get in touch with local tribes
East Africa has also a fascinating tribal people with timeless cultures unchanged by the modern world. Many of them have retained their ancient traditions and crafts. The nomadic pastoral tribes are amongst the most colourful in East Africa.
The Eriksen Adventure offer tours to meet exotic tribes as Luo, the Abagusii, and the Kuria people near Lake Victoria. Other tribes travellers can visit are the Abaluhyia people, who organise bull fighting, and the Isikuti people who are renowned for their spectacular traditional dances.
The staff and guides in The Eriksen Adventure have lived and worked in Africa for years, taking travellers from around the world on adventurous safaris. Each day spent in East Africa, brings new dramatic sights, sounds and experiences where days never are the same!
Contact information:
The Eriksen Adventure
St. Ellis House, 1st Floor, Office 114
City Hall way
P.O.Box 21082 00100 Nairobi - Kenya
Telephone: + 254 20 244834
Fax: +254 20 244836
Mobile: + 254 (0) 722 472 772
E-mail: info@theeriksenadventure.com
Website: www.theeriksenadventure.com
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