Ngong hills climb

Hi everyone,

My first weekend back home and what did I do? Well, climb a mountain again of course! This time, I targeted ngong hills which was slightly shorter than my last mountain, 2400m high this time. The name ngong stands for knuckles because from afar, the hills look like how your knuckles look like when it is all clenched up. Here is a picture of it:

Anyway with my new acquaintances, we started at 7am and headed to the town of ngong hills by car, this is only 30 mins away from where I stay. What we read online was we needed to enlist armed guards to escort us up the hill because there were robberies and mugging occurring in the hills.

We started driving up and up until our car hit white. White. Because we were in the fog! We parked our car and proceeded for the hike. The security guard post was not open yet so we decided to climb ahead, hoping that robbers and muggers were also not early risers.

What greeted us first were these majestic wind mills which were harvesting the wind energy there.



We climbed for THREE hours. Oh my goodness, so tiring. On the way we also passed by many jobbers who were using this to train for their marathons. CRAZY. While we were struggling on this, these people were just running up and down the hills... No wonder Kenyan people are known for their running abilities.





Overall, great morning spent and loads of calories burnt too! Everyone felt like they had accomplished something wonderful. Of course now they are also all complaining about their aching thighs.. Haha

1 weekend down, 8 more to go before jiang comes!

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Location:Ole Sangale Rd,Nairobi,Kenya