Overview
The 6 Days Burguret Chogoria Route: Your Ultimate Climbing Mount Kenya Experience
There is no greater thrill than climbing Mount Kenya through two of its most dramatic and contrasting landscapes. The 6 days Burguret Chogoria route is the adventure you have been waiting for. A traverse that takes you up the wild, remote Burguret side and rewards you with a descent through the breathtaking Chogoria forest. If climbing Mount Kenya is on your bucket list, this is the route that will exceed every expectation.
Why Choose the 6 Days Burguret Chogoria Route
The 6 days Burguret Chogoria route is one of Mount Kenya’s best-kept secrets. Unlike heavily trafficked paths, the 6 days Burguret Chogoria route offers raw, unspoiled wilderness that makes every step of climbing Mount Kenya feel like true exploration. The Burguret ascent winds through dense bamboo forests and open moorlands, while the Chogoria descent unveils the legendary Gorges Valley and the crystal-clear Lake Ellis, scenery that makes climbing Mount Kenya on this traverse genuinely unforgettable.
Choosing the 6 days Burguret Chogoria route means you experience Mount Kenya from two entirely different perspectives. This thoughtful traverse design makes climbing Mount Kenya more rewarding, more scenic, and more complete than any single-route option. The 6 days Burguret Chogoria route is perfectly structured to give your body the acclimatization it needs for a safe and successful summit attempt.
Climbing Mount Kenya With Expert Local Guides
At Let’s Go Mount Kenya, climbing Mount Kenya on the 6 days Burguret Chogoria route is an experience built on expertise, safety, and passion. Our certified guides have spent years navigating every trail of the 6 days Burguret Chogoria route, ensuring that your climbing Mount Kenya adventure is safe, well-paced, and deeply enriching.
Every detail of the 6 days Burguret Chogoria route is expertly managed, from quality gear and nutritious mountain meals to strategic campsite selections that maximize acclimatization. When climbing Mount Kenya with our team, you are never just a booking. You are an adventurer we are personally invested in getting to the summit. The 6 days Burguret Chogoria route reflects our commitment to delivering the finest climbing Mount Kenya experience available.
Going up this route is a challenge: rough underfoot, an overgrown track more used by elephants than humans, muddy when wet, no huts and with dense stands of giant bamboo and montane forest -why would you want to take it? Well it’s for real wilderness aficionados.
The route was pioneered during colonial days and then abandoned for many years until it was re-opened in the early 90’s. It provides a unique and completely natural mountain trekking experience. Up to point lenana then descend on the chogoria route provides the most spectacular views and completes a traverse of Mount Kenya.
Gentle hike down a broad ridge enjoying magnificent views back up the valley to the Mt Kenya snowy peaks, and down to waterfalls, tarns and lava flows in the Gorges Valley itself. Overnight in the Meru Mt. Kenya cabins – log fires, hot showers, beds – and if the supply vehicles have made it up through the forest, Tusker beers! Wildlife viewing possible in evening with elephant and buffalo often grazing outside our cabins and a large numbers of forest and moorland birds.
Highlights
- Day 1: Nairobi – Giant Bamboo camp
- Day 2: Giant Bamboo – Highlands Castle
- Day 3: Highlands Castle – Shipton Camp
- Day 4: Shipton camp – Pt Lenana – Hall Tarns
- Day 5: Hall Tarns – Mt Kenya Bandas
- Day 6: Mt Kenya Bandas – Nairobi