Mount Elgon at the Kenya-Uganda border could be less famous that the region’s other mountains — Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Rwenzori and Meru — but it is equally fascinating being Africa’s eighth highest mountain.
It has the largest base of any free-standing mountain in the world, stretching 50 by 80 km; an extinct volcano, has one of the largest intact calderas in the world and its slopes carry some of the oldest and tallest podo trees, the East African Yellowwood.
