Aberdare National Park Kenya – Self Drive Africa.
Aberdare National Park offers scenic drive for road trip overlanders in Kenya due to its location in the mountain rangers within Central Kenya within the Rift valley areas .
Aberdare national park hosts a diverse collection of African ecosystems covering the valleys with traversal streams, rivers and swamps at once backed by Aberdare mountain range with heights about 4000m (13000) feet.
History of Aberdare National Park
Aberdare National Park was established in 1950 with an aim to conserve and protect the Aberdare Mountains. Since then it has grown to a size of an area of 767 km2
The streams and rivers are from uphill from the mountain flowing towards the valley making water falls. The temperate grassland neighbors up to bamboo forest and as well as rich diverse rainforests.
There exist some waterfalls and these act as home for the wildlife among the predators include, lions, leopards, African wild dog, hyenas, jackal, and the African golden cat. Though there is other wildlife within the park and some of the species here include, bushbuck, buffalo, reedbuck, giant forest hog, warthog and the endangered black rhinoceros.
There is a home for over 250bird species of which the major ones include, African Fish Eagle, African goshawk and so many others.
If your planning long term overland self drive road trip in Kenya , then its important to consider a visit to Aberdare National Park for unique Wildlife watching experience with Self Drive Africa.
Must See in Aberdare
- Lions
- African Wild Dogs
- Elephants
- Buffalos
- Giant Forest Hog
- Endangered Black Rhinos
- Leopards
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Things to do in Aberdare National Park
Aberdare National Park is purely known for wildlife watching experiences and nature walks for exciting adventures for adults and children , when your self driving in Kenya as family , then the best prefect national Park to explore is aberdare national Park to enjoy the following:
Game Drives
On the private Self drive game drive to see the big five animals within the park during the random in morning or evening hours for exotic wildlife watching . The Game drive time is 6:30am to 10:30 and 2:00pm-6.00pm as you search for:
- black Rhinos
- buffalo
- spotted hyenas leopards,
- black colobus monkey
- bush bucks
- elands
- bongo antelopes
- giant forest hogs
Guided nature walks
Explore Aberdare National Park on Foot as you enjoy the story about the park from the expert local knowledgeable guides about the history and seeing animals as you walk around in the designed trails which are close to points where wildlife animals can be spotted . See the magnificent waterfalls such as Chania Karuru that falls , Gura and Magura fall.
Birding
Aberdare National Park is blessed with over 200bird species including the native birds and the seasonal birds . The most common species within the park are noted here, sunbird, goshawks, Jackson’s francolin, mountain buzzard, rufous breasted sparrow hawks, Ayres hawk and many other species. The bird watching done in early morning when the birds just started singing for easy sight for those in thick trees.
Horse riding
Horse riding is a beautiful experience that the park offers, visitors riding horses on a beautiful landscape teeming with variety of animals. Horseback riding can have carried out by guides to savannah grass land and end up with perfect adventure most the nature lovers.
Accommodations in Aberdare Park.
If your planning to travel to Aberdare National Park note that there is developed camping grounds and safari lodges for ultimate Kenya Safari experience.
- Ark Tree lodge.
- Tusk Camp
- Fishing lodge
- Aberdare cottages.
Overland road trips in Kenya are also taken care of by booking the public campsites and private that are close to the park gates. 4wd Africa has got you covered for this unique experience in Kenya.
Car Rental in Kenya- Self Drive in East Africa.
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| Landcruiser 76 Series | UGANDA | TANZANIA | KENYA | RWANDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SELF DRIVE | $100 | $150 | $150 | $140 |
| WITH A DRIVER | $140 | $210 | $210 | $200 |
| ROOFTOP TENT | $20 | $20 | $20 | $20 |
