MOUNT LONGONOT (HIKING) -1 DAY: Departs daily from Nairobi after breakfast for this crater mountain. Drive through Agricultural land then to the view point of the great Rift valley brief stop, into the Rift Valley to Mount Longonot. Prepare for the climbing to the highest peak 3321 metres above the sea level. Walk around the crater rim then proceed into the crater, have lunch, climb out of the crater then to Longonot town for transport back to Nairobi arriving in the evening.

 

This Crater mountain is a dead volcanic situated deeply in the middle on great Rift Valley.From here you can see most of the rift valley lakes from thr nearby Lake Naivasha, Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Lake Baringo and Lake Natron at the border of tanzania/ Kenya.On clear weather you can also see kilimanjaro and Cherengani hills.

This is the best hiking trip for those who may want to carry with them red cells to face bigger mountains like Mount Kenya or Kilimanjaro.Better walk on this beautiful crater mountain few days before attemp of climbing any big mountains.Even though trainning is not needed but this mountain becomes great challenge to those who undarates it as small mountain because the stating point is low and its steep for day walk you will only feel it after trip is done and muscles have answered you.