Aberdare National Park

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Loads of wildlife in picturesque, steep forested ravines and open moorland characterize the Aberdare National Park and make the experience of visiting it unlike anywhere else in Kenya.

The park provides a habitat for elephants, black rhinos, leopards, lions, spotted hyenas, olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, buffalos, warthogs and bushbucks among others.

If you are very lucky you might catch a glimpse of Kenya’s rarest antelope, the bongo. The Park is also home to a healthy population of black rhino.

Visitors can also indulge in picnics, trout fishing in the rivers and camping in the moorlands.

Bird viewing is rewarding, with over 250 species of birds in the park, including the Jackson’s Francolin, Sparrow hawks, goshawks, eagles, sunbirds and plovers.

The Park has several high mountain peaks, deep ravines with icy mountain streams and many beautiful waterfalls with a moorland plateau.

You can explore the park while on game drives and trek up the high peaks and take in the spectacular scenery.

The thick rainforest gives way to a bamboo forest and interesting alpine vegetation the higher you travel up the mountain peaks within the park.

Aberdare National Park is most famous as the place where Princess Elizabeth found out that she was Queen upon the death of her father at Treetops Lodge. Since then this lodge has been popular with tourists on safari to Kenya.