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5 Days Mount Kenya - Sirimon to Chogoria Route
A 5-day Mount Kenya climb on the Sirimon to Chogoria route. Nights are spent in mountain huts or camps.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Where
- Mount Kenya
- Comfort
- Budget
- Type
- Mountain trek
- Accommodation
- Mountain huts or camps on the trail.
Price per person
- Per person
- USD 750
Across the mountain: Sirimon up, Chogoria down.
This trek is a traverse. It climbs from Sirimon Gate, off the Nanyuki–Meru road on the northern side of Mount Kenya, and finishes at Chogoria Gate on the Embu–Meru road to the east, so you see two different flanks of the mountain instead of returning the way you came.
Kenya Wildlife Service describes Mount Kenya as an ancient extinct volcano, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, whose high country is scattered with lakes and tarns. A route that crosses from one side to the other is a good way to see more of it in five days.
From official park information, checked in October 2026: Kenya Wildlife Service, Mt. Kenya National Park (opens in a new tab). Daily stages, camps and timings are confirmed with your itinerary.
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The journey at a glance.
The places this climb visits, in the order the catalogue names them. The day-by-day plan, nights, timings and inclusions are prepared with your written quotation; nothing here is a confirmed schedule. Photographs illustrate each place.
Batian and Nelion, the twin summits of Mount Kenya, with Point Slade in the foreground. Photograph: User:Chris 73 (CC BY-SA 3.0) Mount Kenya
Africa’s second-highest mountain: an ancient extinct volcano of glacier-clad peaks, moorland, high tarns and forested slopes.
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Where you stay.
Mountain huts or camps on the trail.
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