Guided Tours with Reuben
Jambo! My name is Reuben and I am a local Maasai guide at Mt Suswa.
Located only about 50 km from Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley, Mount Suswa is a stunning location for you to do both hiking and caving. This extinct volcano is made up of unique double crater system, featuring a spectacular sunken ‘crater within a crater.’ The summit of the inner volcano, Ol Doinyo Nyokie (the red mountain), rises to 2,356m (7,730 ft), affording an awe-inspiring view.
Dotted with Maasai manyattas, the outer crater (around 10km in diameter) provides the Maasai with grazing for their livestock and fresh water through spouting steam from deep underground.
The inner crater (5km across) is covered by pristine tropical forest and home to leopards, hyenas, buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and other wildlife.
Mt Suswa also has a vast network of obsidian caves which are ideal for exploring. Made famous by a BBC documentary, these caves are home to the 'baboon parliament' and thousands of bats. This unique cave system is considered the world’s most complex braided system of lava tubes.
Located only about 50 km from Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley, Mount Suswa is a stunning location for you to do both hiking and caving. This extinct volcano is made up of unique double crater system, featuring a spectacular sunken ‘crater within a crater.’ The summit of the inner volcano, Ol Doinyo Nyokie (the red mountain), rises to 2,356m (7,730 ft), affording an awe-inspiring view.
Dotted with Maasai manyattas, the outer crater (around 10km in diameter) provides the Maasai with grazing for their livestock and fresh water through spouting steam from deep underground.
The inner crater (5km across) is covered by pristine tropical forest and home to leopards, hyenas, buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and other wildlife.
Mt Suswa also has a vast network of obsidian caves which are ideal for exploring. Made famous by a BBC documentary, these caves are home to the 'baboon parliament' and thousands of bats. This unique cave system is considered the world’s most complex braided system of lava tubes.