My Land of Magic Mountains, and Moorlands Wild an introduction

The rugged central highlands of Kenya are crowned with 5,189 meter high snow capped Mt.Kenya, the glistening, forested coronet astride the Equator which gives the country its name. The rich volcanic soil at the base and on the Mountain slopes has made this one of the Most profitable agricultural areas in Kenya. In a loose circumference, central Kenya embraces Kiambu in the south, Muranga and Nyeri in the centre , the Aberdares and Nyandarua in the west, Nanyuki in the north, and Meru and Embu in the east.
As you travel through the highlands, the tremendous panoramas and rapid changes of light and colour are both surprising and rewarding. Dominating the landscape, Mount Kenya's twin spires thrust upwards through shrouds of mist and storm - which suddenly lift, exposing its dramatically beautiful profile. To the east and south, the mountain slope slip steeply away to the Tana River basin and broad arid plains that end in the Ukambani hills. in the north they drop even more precipitiously to the desert floor. In the west they drop more gently to the rolling uplands of Laikipia. The Central Highlands remain magically unspoilt.
Joseph Thomson once thought to himself ," a more charming region is not to be found in all Africa" while exploring in the 1880's

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