The Mount Longonot National Park is situated South West of Lake Naivasha at about 90km from Nairobi. It occupies an area of approximately 52km². The park has a mountain, a forest, a mountain crater and a V – shaped valley as part of it. Mt. Longonot derived its name from a Maasai word – Oloonongot that “means mountains of many spurs” or “steep ridges”. The mountain is a stratovolcano and it rises to 2776m above sea level.