Ngong Hills Hikers-Trail lovers

23/05/2024

A search team on Mt Everest has found the body of missing Kenyan mountaineer Cheruiyot Kirui. The patrol is also focusing on finding a Nepali climber Nawang Sherpa, whose fate is still unknown (was missing with him). Both went missing after attempting to summit Everest without oxygen last Monday.
The climbers had only hired services until Base Camp. They used the fixed ropes but climbed without supplementary oxygen or personal sherpa support. According to the new mandates for Everest, the outfitting agencies are responsible for bringing the bodies down. At that altitude, this is no small task. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends during this time of sorrow. Rest in peace, Cheruiyot.

18/01/2024

Monday morning ,19th January, 8am 2024 at the Game location, Ngong hills.

Have a great day and week ahead everyone!

11/01/2024

Have a wonderful Friday everyone.
Stay safe and try to put first 👍💚👊

23/10/2023

The rich history of Ngong hills

22/10/2023

An old photo of Ngong hills.

According to the Agikuyu community the fourth mountain used by God as one of his dwelling place was that known to the Kikuyu as kīambi-rūirū. This means " the very black mountain" and is due to the fact that the mountain range _ the Ngong hills - always has a dark appearance. It is also the reason why there are numerous shrines and many religious groups used for prayer. It is also the reason that those who visit always can't understand why they experience a calming effect and always want to go back.

22/10/2023

I photographed the Ngong hills from a different location.

19/10/2023

Tbt around Ngong hills collecting some firewood for a camp.

03/05/2023

Easy and spectacular trails if you're within Nairobi

• Giraffe Centre: 2KM trail.

• Nairobi Arboretum: 3KM trail.

• Oloolua Forest: 5KM trail.

• Karura Forest: 5/10/15KM trails.

• Ngong Forest Sanctuary: 5/10/15/21KM trails.

27/04/2023

Year after year, the trails of Ngong hills remain one of the absolute favourite places to hike and camp in Kenya. It's scenery is timeless and offers travelers 360º views of kajiado's hilly landscape and a beautiful way to slow down"

23/04/2023

"It ain't a matter of knowin' where to go. It's havin' the courage to go there."
📸 🐦@ Justglomie

22/04/2023

THE Ngong HILLS are a mystical magical place with lush green trees and bushes all around after a long drought.
When the noise gets too much
when the chaos is makin' you go nuts
head for the hills you know and love.

These are the images captured through the lens of a photographic artist Agoro.

28/02/2023

29/01/2023

Musambwa island is a superstitious island in the interior of Lake Victoria.
This Island derives its name from a local dialect Musambwa which literally means gods/ spirits in Luganda and appear in form of snakes.

This name came about due to the overwhelming number of snakes in the area which are believed to be spirits rather than normal snakes.

Within an area of five acres and a population of less than 100 people, there are more than 2000 snakes that inhabit the island, it’s a ratio of over 20 snakes per person.

There is a myth in this place says that a female and a male spirit came to the lake and separated, therefore the male spirit occupied the busier island which led to prohibition of women and s*x on this island in order to please the gods/spirits. Therefore, no woman will be allowed on this island and men who wants to have s*x, goes to the mainland which is about 10 km away

18/01/2023

Weird is good! 🤣🤪
Happiness is an inside job!

12/01/2023

What is ONE hiking advice everyone should follow when doing Ngong hills in 2023?

09/01/2023

Craig the Magnificent, Amboseli, Kenya

Clint Ralph Photography

09/01/2023

Which wild animal have you come across while hiking in Ngong hills?

15/12/2022

The showers. We thank God

09/12/2022

Discipline will take you 100x further than motivation ever will.

08/12/2022

This video was taken at a Fresh Water Spring called the ‘Marico Oog’.

Legend has it, that this spring is fed by a deep underground aquifer, linking its waters to the Okavango Delta.

07/12/2022

Who wants to camp in Ngong hills?

16/11/2022

Good morning hikers

14/11/2022

You deserve the sunshine and the rain.

02/11/2022

Denys George Finch Hatton was a game hunter turned wildlife photographer and whose last wish was to be buried in Ngong hills where his grave remains until today.

Finch was born on 24 April 1887 in Kensington, London, England and moved to Kenya in 1910.

He bought some land on the western side of the Great Rift Valley near what is now Eldoret. Later, he turned over the investment to a partner and spent his time hunting.

During the period between 1928 and 1930, Finch Hatton played host to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, in a safari that switched from hunting to photography.

During the safari, Fich developed a special relationship with Edward VIII's which led to Edward taking up Finch Hatton's causes, such as abandoning the use of cars for hunting safaris, and shifting towards filming big game, wildlife photography, and later hee founded the Serengeti National Park.

The reason Finch led Safaris was because he had established himself in Kenya after spending years with a prominent Anglo-Irish settler in kenya called Hon. Berkeley Cole and founder of the Muthaiga club in Nairobi.

Cole himself was very well connected in Kenya because he was the brother-in-law of Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, one of the first influential and effective leader of the White settlers in the Kenya.

On the morning of 14 May 1931, Finch Hatton's Gipsy Moth (a1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft) took off from Voi Airport, circled the airport twice, then plunged to the ground and burst into flames. Finch Hatton and his Kĩkũyũ servant Kamau were killed.

In accordance with his wishes, Finch Hatton was buried in the Ngong Hills.
Karen Blixen had chosen the site.
In her own words Baroness Blixen said
"There was a place in the hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve that I myself, at the time I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening while we looked at the hills from my home, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said; ‘Let us drive as far as our graves."

Later, his brother erected an obelisk at the gravesite upon which he placed a simple brass plaque inscribed with Finch Hatton's name, the dates of his birth and death and an extract from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem the Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast".

06/09/2022

Hiking Ngong hills on a weekend comes with all the freedom.