mt_kenya

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We started our hike from the main road along a dirt track with visible summit just ahead.
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Starting to gain some altitude once we entered the forest zone.
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Welcome to the National Park! We are already at 2,650 meters!
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The first day was mostly through rain forests with the constant threat of buffalo or elephants!
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The trees thin out at we approach 3,000 meters.
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A dik-dik at our campsite.
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We had a frost the first night!
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View from our campsite.
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Our campsite next to Old Moses Hut had a great view of the summits. We had reached 3,400 meters by this point.
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The hut where we camped the night before is visble in the distance.
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Lots of strange looking plants above the tree-line. This is called a giant lobelias.
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Red-hot poker
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Now all we were left with was grassland and the strange plants.
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It was a very wet path.
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A rock hyrax, whose closet living relative is an elephant oddly enough.
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Like North Campsite at 3,993 meters where we spent two nights to acclimatize.
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It was beautiful how the clounds seemed to flow down the hill side.