Loresho Ridge: Road to AgVet Enlightment!
The custom-made bottle-tops cache is hidden at chest height in a tree on the south side of Loresho Ridge road which runs along higher ground through the some of the leafy suburbs some 10km north-west of Nairobi.
Further west along the same road is a golf club and the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences on the Upper Kabete campus of the University of Nairobi which is also home to the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies founded in 2009.
Various points along the road give good views over the various ridges and steep-sided valleys to the north-west of Nairobi along which various rivers flow west to east down from the highlands west of Nairobi to eventually join the Athi River east of the city.
Please take care when retrieving, logging and returning the cache to avoid observation by muggles, and to hide the cache properly using the material available.
To reach the cache:
From Nairobi CBD (Kenyatta Ave/Uhuru Highway roundabout) @ S 01 17.194 E 36 49.042 take Uhuru Highway (A104) heading north as far as Westlands roundabout @ S 01 15.880 E 36 48.120 (3km). Take the 2nd exit heading into Westlands toward Sarit Centre (400m). Take the Lower Kabete Road heading NW from the Sarit 'roundabout' as far as the roundabout @ S 01 15.073 E 36 47.131 and head straight onto Kyuna Road (2.5km). At the next junction @ S 01 15.026 E 36 45.998 (2.2km) head straight onto Loresho Ridge passing through the security barrier at S 01 15.949 E 36 44.530 (after 2.8km)
where your vehicle will be checked and you will be given a token which you will hand back upon exiting. Continue on another 500m to the cache location. There is a small area on the northern (right) side of the road about 50m west of the cache where you can pull off to park.
From the cache you can either return the way you came or carry on past the golf club and then through the university area and out of the other side to the T-junction with Kapenguria Road @ S 01 15.309 E 36 43.494 (1.7km). Turn left and head 500m to the junction at S 01 15.540 E 36 43.351. Turn right here and then follow the road around circling left which will bring you onto the slip-road to join the main highway again heading east into Nairobi.