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Aberdares National
Park Kenya
The mountain range which lies directly north
of Nairobi, whose highest peak, Ol Doinyo La Satima, reaches
3,998m.
Part of the range is protected as the Aberdares
National Park and encompasses all land over 3,200m together
with a salient stretching east, down to 2,133m near the town
of Nyeri. The dense forests of the Salient, once an elephant
migration route between the Aberdares and
Mount Kenya, are
rich in wildlife - elephant, warthog, giant forest hog and
bush pig, waterbuck, duiker, suni, dikdik, reedbuck, eland,
bushbuck and the extremely rare bongo. Black and white
colobus monkey are frequently seen swinging in the treetops.
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Lion, leopard, genet and serval cats, the latter frequently
seen in its melanistic (black) phase, are also seen here.
Above the forests are misty moorlands with icy rivers
plunging into spectacular waterfalls and strange six metre
tall mutants of alpine plants - groundsel, erica, hypericum
and seneccio whose brilliant yellow flowers bloom but once
in twenty years. A great place to visit during your Kenya
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Accommodation options available in the
Aberdares national
park Kenya are listed below.
*Top end
accommodation in Aberdares.
Tree
tops lodge Aberdares
The Ark
Aberdares country
club
Outspan hotel
*Budget
accommodation in Aberdares.
Tusk Camp
aberdares national park
Supper hut
aberdares national park
Wanjee camp
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