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Aberdare National Park<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cMajestic Peaks, Moorlands and Intriguing Falls\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Picturesque, steep forested ravines and open moorland characterize the Aberdare National Park. The park provides a habitat for elephants, black rhinos, leopards, spotted hyenas, olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, buffalos, warthogs, and bushbucks among others. Rare sightings include those of the Giant Forest hog, bongo, golden cat, serval cat, African wild cat, African civet cat, and the blue duiker. Visitors can 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.<\/p>\n

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Activities<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Bird watching<\/li>\n
  • Camping<\/li>\n
  • Game viewing<\/li>\n
  • Photography<\/li>\n
  • Trekking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Attractions<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Game animals easily seen in the park during game viewing include; African Elephant, black rhino, leopard, spotted hyena, olive baboon, black and white colobus monkey, sykes monkey, cape buffalo, warthog, common zebra (North Aberdare), bushbuck, reedbuck.\u00a0 Rare sightings include those of Giant Forest hog, bongo, golden cat, serval cat, African wild cat, African civet cat, blue duiker.<\/p>\n

    Very beautiful sceneries of Aberdare include magnificent waterfalls with the main ones being Karuru waterfalls which fall in three steps, 1st step 117M, 2nd step 26M and 3rd 130M, making a total of 273M, Chania waterfalls and may other smaller ones.<\/p>\n

    Adding to the beauty of Aberdare are many ridges and river valleys which attract mountain scenery photographers.<\/p>\n

    A recently marked attraction in Aberdare is the 400Kms electric fence which was completed \u2013 final post on 28th August 2009.\u00a0 The fence protects the whole Aberdare ecosystem from human pressures and contains wildlife,\u00a0 preventing human\/wildlife conflict.<\/p>\n

    Visitors can also indulge in picnics, trout fishing (in the past the rivers were stocked with brown rainbow trout) in the rivers and camping in the Moorlands.\u00a0 Bird viewing is rewarding with about 290 recorded bird species, including the Aberdare Cisticola that is critically endangered and Jackson\u2019s francolin, which is regionally endemic, sparry hawk, goshawks, eagles, sunbirds, and plovers<\/p>\n

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    Aberdare National Park \u201cMajestic Peaks, Moorlands and Intriguing Falls\u201d Picturesque, steep forested ravines and open moorland characterize the Aberdare National Park. The park provides a habitat for elephants, black rhinos, leopards, spotted hyenas, olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, buffalos, warthogs, and bushbucks among others. Rare sightings include those of the Giant Forest hog, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"listing_location":[143],"listing_cat":[85,144,145,146,147],"listing_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listings\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_location?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"listing_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_cat?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goplaceskenya.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_tag?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}