You are about to experience one of the unique environments in the world. The national park covers an area of 715 km², it is part of the biosphere reserve, which covers an approximate area of 2,124 km². An area so special that in 1997 UNESCO inscribed Mount Kenya a World Heritage Site. As one of the most impressive landscapes in Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro –alpine moorlands and diverse forests that illustrate outstanding ecological processes.