Up the Aberdares

Excitement as it gets higher Above: Yogi Hikers with Gacheke Jennifer Simmons in middle founder of Yogi Hikers on the Aberdares. Courtesy Desire Wainaina Published: Satmag Nation Newspaper 9 July 2022 It’s freezing on a cold June morning despite the sun and blue sky as we enter the Aberdare National Park through Wandare Gate. It’s […]

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On The Heights of the Aberdares

Published 6 October 2018 I feel like l’ve stepped into a hidden, magical world on the heights of the Aberdares. We’re entering a part of the Aberdares that until recently was shrouded in mystical mists only accessible for tough hikers and mountaineers. We’re in the northern part of the 160-kilometer range that looms in the […]

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Discovering Ngobit River

I had never heard of Ngobit River, didn’t even know such a river existed. But before we ventured that far from Gilgil, Solomon Gitau from Kipipiri joined us to show where the colobus monkeys from Kipipiri were. Kipipiri is in the fabled ‘Happy Valley’, and the range stretches in front of the taller and longer […]

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