Mount Longonot Hike: Full-day Mount Longonot & Lake Naivasha Tour Day trips and Excursions

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Mount Longonot Hike: Full-day Mount Longonot & Lake Naivasha Tour

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About this experience

✔ Health and safety measures apply
✔ Small-group or private tour
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 9-10 hours
STARTING TIME: 6.00 am
MEETING POINT: At your centrally located hotel
LANGUAGES: English
OPENING SEASON: All year round
WHO CAN COME: Anyone can participate in this Mount Longonot hike. Some hiking experience is a requirement. An adult must accompany the children. Not wheelchair accessible

Overview

Take a relaxing Mount Longonot hike from Nairobi, and admire the spectacular volcanic formations. Climb to the crater’s rim and then travel to Lake Naivasha for a delicious lunch by the water and a boat trip around the lake looking for hippos and eagles as you go.

◾ Admire the view over the Great African Rift Valley
◾ Have a pleasant hike up the mountain and peer into the crater’s rim
◾ Appreciate a delicious lunch at Lake Naivasha
◾ Enjoy a one-hour boat trip around Lake Naivasha and watch spectacular birds

About this experience

✔ Health and safety measures apply
✔ Small-group or private tour
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 9-10 hours
STARTING TIME: 6.00 am
MEETING POINT: At your centrally located hotel
LANGUAGES: English
OPENING SEASON: All year round
WHO CAN COME: Anyone can participate in this Mount Longonot hike. Some hiking experience is a requirement. An adult must accompany the children. Not wheelchair accessible

Description - What to expect

Your Mount Longonot hike starts with an early pick-up from your hotel, leaving behind the busy city heading toward the Mt Longonot National Park, through the Kikuyu lush green highlands, and then on the eastern escarpment of the Great African Rift Valley. Stop at a vantage point to gaze out over the rift valley floor, and learn about its geology from your guide. Formed about five million years ago, the rift is a unique formation that runs through Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia to the Red Sea. The whole area is full of volcanic activity, including bubbling geysers, hot springs, and lakes.

Drop into the rift valley and arrive at Mount Longonot National Park for your hike up to the crater. The trek requires a good standard of fitness, and you will climb through the gulleys that dot the sides of this mountain. You can make some rest stops at the designated places on the trek. You will get to the rim of the crater and look into the awesome crater below. If you have the strength for it, you can take a walk around the rim itself.

Make your way back down the mountain, then travel to Lake Naivasha for a delicious lunch by the water at the Marina Camp. You’ll have the opportunity for a final sightseeing experience on the lake itself. The Mount Longonot Hike includes an hour-long boat ride around Lake Naivasha. Watch spectacular birds such as the African fish eagle that swoops into the water to catch fish, and look out for hippos wallowing in the shallows.

Depart Lake Naivasha driving through the lush Kikuyu highlands and arrive back in Nairobi at around 5:30 pm.

Free Cancellation

Free cancellation is available for this Mount Longonot hike up to 48 hours before the start of the experience

What's included, what's not

✔ Hotel pickup and drop-off
✔ Park entrance fees
✔ Local English-speaking driver/guide
✔ Boat ride in the Lake Naivasha
✖ Lunch and drinks
✖ Pickup and drop off at the airport (it can be arranged at an extra cost of 20 USD)

Bring with you

Please bring with you an extra bottle of water, sunscreen, closed and light shoes, comfortable clothes and a hat

Address & directions

Mount Longonot National Park is one of the many fascinating, yet least visited, attractions of Kenya. Located in the Lake Naivasha region it is dominated by Mount Longonot itself. This stratovolcano, last thought to have erupted in the 1860's, is 2776 m above sea level.

Good to know

Please note that the distance from the bottom to the top is almost 3 km. If you go round the crater rim at the top, the distance is another 2 km

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to hike Mt Longonot

Health and safety

✔ Provider complies with local legislation and applicable health recommendations with regard to Covid-19 prevention measures

Description - What to expect

Your Mount Longonot hike starts with an early pick-up from your hotel, leaving behind the busy city heading toward the Mt Longonot National Park, through the Kikuyu lush green highlands, and then on the eastern escarpment of the Great African Rift Valley. Stop at a vantage point to gaze out over the rift valley floor, and learn about its geology from your guide. Formed about five million years ago, the rift is a unique formation that runs through Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia to the Red Sea. The whole area is full of volcanic activity, including bubbling geysers, hot springs, and lakes.

Drop into the rift valley and arrive at Mount Longonot National Park for your hike up to the crater. The trek requires a good standard of fitness, and you will climb through the gulleys that dot the sides of this mountain. You can make some rest stops at the designated places on the trek. You will get to the rim of the crater and look into the awesome crater below. If you have the strength for it, you can take a walk around the rim itself.

Make your way back down the mountain, then travel to Lake Naivasha for a delicious lunch by the water at the Marina Camp. You’ll have the opportunity for a final sightseeing experience on the lake itself. The Mount Longonot Hike includes an hour-long boat ride around Lake Naivasha. Watch spectacular birds such as the African fish eagle that swoops into the water to catch fish, and look out for hippos wallowing in the shallows.

Depart Lake Naivasha driving through the lush Kikuyu highlands and arrive back in Nairobi at around 5:30 pm.

Latest reviews

  • ELEFTHERIOS
  • Nov 4, 2022
  • We had a great time! Both Gofreedly and the local supplier did their best to accommodate our needs and be super supportive. Highly recommended experience.

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