Aberdare National Park offers the more experienced safari goer an excellent alternative to the busier parks of Kenya.
Boasting a wide range of landscapes; from mountain peaks that rise about 14,000 feet. To the deep, v-shaped valleys with streams, rivers, and waterfalls. At lower altitudes, one finds misty moorlands, bamboo forests, and rain forests.
The Aberdare National Park is located about 150 km north of Nairobi and is part of the Aberdare Mountain Range. Covering an area of approximately 766 square kilometers.
Night game viewing is provided by the lodges in the salient area of the Park. There are excellent sightings of elephants, buffalo, lions, and rhinos that gather at the waterholes and saltlicks each evening.
This is a great add-on to the busier parks in Kenya so for example; Amboseli or Masai Mara.
Aberdare National Park elephants
Wildlife
The wildlife commonly found in this game reserve includes lion, leopard, baboon, black and white Colobus monkey, and Sykes monkey. If you are lucky, you may also see the golden cat and the bongo. A bongo is an elusive forest antelope that lives in the bamboo forest. Spotted and melanistic serval cats can be found higher up; in the moorlands. The melanistic serval cats have entirely black coats, as a result of a genetic mutation called melanism. The Aberdare National Park also contains a large population of black rhinos. Visitors can also indulge in walking, picnics, trout fishing in the rivers, and camping in the moorlands.
Birding
Bird life is abundant and varied. There are over 250 species of birds in the park. There are four species of sunbird in the park. The Tacazze sunbird is a brilliant metallic violet and bronze with a black belly. Golden winged sunbird are a coppery bronze with golden yellow edged wings and tail. The emerald green malachite sunbird. And the tiny double collared sunbird with metallic green upper parts and throat and scarlet chest band. Game birds include Jackson’s, Scaly & Montane Francolins. Birds of prey are especially interesting. Crowned and Ayres’ Hawk Eagles, Mountain Buzzard, Rufous breasted Sparrow Hawk, and African Goshawk.
When to visit Aberdare National Park
Aberdare is best to visit in the drier months of January and February and between June and September. However; it is cooler at this time of year. Rain can be expected between March and May.
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