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Mount Kenya national
park,Kenya
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Mt. Kenya is an
imposing extinct volcano dominating
the landscape of the Kenyan
Highlands, East of the Rift. Mt.
Kenya lies about 140 km North,
North-East of Nairobi with its
Northern flanks across the Equator.
The mountain has two main peaks -
Batian (5200m) and Nelion (5188m).
The mountains slopes are cloaked in
forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland
giving way on the high central peaks
to rock, ice and snow. Mt. Kenya is
an important water catchment area,
supplying the Tana and Northern
Ewaso Nyiro systems.
The park includes a variety of
habitats ranging from higher forest,
bamboo, alpine moorlands, glaciers,
tarns and glacial morains.The park
was inscribed by UNESCO as a World
Heritage Site in 1997
and is also a Biosphere Reserve.
Major attractions include: Pristine
wilderness, lakes, tarns, glaciers
and peaks of great beauty,
geological variety, forest, mineral
springs, rare and endangered species
of animals, High altitude adapted
plains game, Unique montane and
alpine vegetation with 11 species of
endemic plants. |
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95535 - 80106 Mombasa