ABERDARES NATIONAL PARK & MT KENYA
The aberdares ranges forest is renowned for their botanical riches and torrential waterfalls plunging from cloud shrouded heights to spray filled ravines. The falls include the Gura Water falls and the queens cave pavilion was the site for the 1959 royal picnic lunch for Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip.
The park hosts some of the world re-known tree hotels the Treetops and the Ark Tree lodge [Fairmont hotels].
This Aberdares is ideal for wilderness trekking and it’s very rich in wildlife it’s said that over 2000 elephants roam the clouded hills.
Rhinos, warthog, bush pig, giant forest hog, water buck, duiker, suni, dikdik, reedbuck, shy and the very rare bongo are all habitats of this high moorlands mountain ranges. It’s also a bird watchers haven.
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