The Question, “When is the Best time to visit Kenya?” is answered with other questions: which attraction do you want to visit? Which activities would you want to do while you are there? This helps you to know which attraction to see and what to do in a specific period of time. Of course most people love travelling to Kenya between June and October since it’s a dry season and the best time for wildlife viewing, but remember wildlife in…
Hells Gate National park is found within the gift valley rich region of Kenya near Lake Naivasha, but on the slopes of Mt. Longonot and Suswa extinct volcanic mountains. The abundant Kenya wildlife park attributes it wealth to the spills of volcanic ashes from these mountains creating mineral rich grasses that the animals feed on. The Kenya wildlife park occupies around 68sq km of peaceful serene Kenya country side with touring rift valley cliffs. The park was named Hells Gate…
Kakamega Forest National Reserve is a protected area covering a tropical forest reserve that has remained intact through the years; it can be otherwise called a unique eco-system of Guinea-Congolese rain forests. The forest covers a total area of close to 240km² on the Lake Victoria basin thus inclusive the hard wood forest reserve, savannah, papyrus and reed swamps, rivers and small streams, glades and abundant wildlife. Some of trees and plants have been here for several years! How to…
Watamu National Park is a component of a complex of marine and tidal habitats on Kenya’s upper coast stretching from Malindi town and ahead of the entrance to Mida creek. It is surrounded by the Malindi Marine Reserve which also includes Malindi Marine National Park. Weather conditions are humid with mean annual temperatures around 22-34°C. Rainfall is about 500 mm per annum. Habitations here consist of inter-tidal rock, sand and mud; bordering reefs and coral gardens, layers of sea grass;…
Saiwa stands out as the smallest park in Kenya, only 3 sq km. It had been set up to shelter the semi-aquatic sitatunga antelope and even encloses the swamp along the the Saiwa river along with its bordering belts of rain forest. Typically the park is enclosed by subsistence farming settlements. Vegetation is mostly a mixture of forest and swamp vegetation. This swamp is dominated by tall bullrushes as well as sedges, bordered by a mixture of grassland, riverine forests…
Kora national Park is another of Kenya’s National Parks and reserves from the coastal region. The park covers an area of 1,7800sq km along the riverbanks of Tana River, 125km east of Mount Kenya. The former nature reserve was gazetted into a Kenya wildlife game park around 1990. The park is made up of gentle sloping hills stretching from the Aberdare ranges and Mount Kenya from central Kenya. The landscape is predominantly marked with rocky inselbergs raising to 488m, shrubs,…
Arabuko Sokoke Forest National Park is a small Kenya wildlife safari (6 sqkm)park located in the north Mombasa district of Kilifi near 350sq km under the Arabuko-Sokoke forest reserve. Statistics states that this forest reserve is the largest tropical forest on the East Africa coast preserving and serving as a great eco-system with diversity of wildlife. The forest nest many rare bird species, butterflies, mammals, amphibians, unique tree and plant species. Arabuko-Sokoke Forest wildlife The forest park is marked with…
Malindi Marine National park lies south of Malindi town on the Indian coast beach near Arabuko-Sokoke forest Park and Gedi ruins. The park is fringed with raised coral reefs, coral lagoon gardens, mangroves, mud flats, sea grasses and other amazing tidal habitats. The park is deal for diving and snorkelling off motor boats into the spectacular marine life. The dive site from Malindi Marine Park is one of the best in the world. Other activities on the beach include sea…
Buffalo springs National park is quite a charm on Kenya wildlife safaris located within the northern part of Kenya, a few kilometers (112) from Nairobi. The national reserve occupies and area of 339sq km of rolling lowland plains of that spring from Mt Kenya eastern slopes with dry thorny bushes, savannah, acacia trees, shrubs and riparian forests. This Kenya wildlife reserve got its name from the clear water springs that flow through the park to the east that never run…
Meru national park is one of Kenya’s most abundant Game parks and ranks high among the most visited game parks in Kenya. Meru is found in the larger part of the Meru Conservation Area (40,000km²) covered in more than 13 rivers flowing from the mountains in the nearby Nyambeni Mountain range, savannah grasslands, riparian forests, doum palms and more. The conservation are occupies Bisandi, Kora and Meru National park. Meru Alone covers just 870sq km of the triangle between Tana…
