Tea and Coffee Farms Tour with Kilimambogo hike

Tea and Coffee Farms Tour with Kilimambogo hike

Day 1

It is your day in the farms, as your lungs take in the fresh air, your eyes and senses the beauty of nature and you experience first-hand the production of these world famous beverages. The day could start with either a visit to the coffee farm or the tea farm. Enthusiasts of these beverages will move their love for the drinks a notch higher by appreciating the growth, management, harvest and processing into the different flavors and grades. An opportunity to be at the farm and see how the crop to cup process goes.

At the farms you will be received by our expert guide who takes you through the full story from when it’s a crop, crop management, harvesting and preparation into a palatable from. We have lunch in the farm.

Later you have a chance to sit and enjoy a cup of these beverages and even take away some packets for yourself. Dinner and overnight at the farm.

Day 2

After an early breakfast drive on to Ol Donyo National Park to embark on the hike up Mt. Kilimambogo. At an elevation of 2,145m, the Mt. Kilimambogo named by the Masai to mean big mountain, sits in a park, Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park. The nearby Kamba communities called it, Kiima Kya Mboo meaning the Buffalo mountain, so you can already start to have an idea of the kind of animals you are likely to see why hiking this mountain. It’s an easy half day hike through a montane vegetation. There’s only one track up and down the mountain covering a distance of about 9 kms. The thick forest cover of the mountain may obscure the view of all the animals that call this mountain home including Buffalo, Leopard, Aardvark, Olive Baboons, Porcupine, Moongose and Dik Dik. On the way you pass by Sir William Mcmillan, a super wealthy British Rancher, Big Game hunter and Rancher, whose wish upon death in France had been stated prior: to be buried in this mountain. On days when the clouds are clear you see the peaks of both Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, Africa’s first and second highest peaks.

You enjoy picnic lunch at the base of the mountain or at the nearby and scenic 14 falls before visiting the falls and transfer back to Nairobi.