GAME PARKS AND RESERVES

Kenya is a country with major tourist attraction in Africa.

The country is endowed with hotel spots at each of the game reserves and parks

The following are our major national parks and accommodation  in the national reserves and parks across the country.
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Aberdares

This reserve allows you to have a view of the Aberdare ranges. It has numerous wildlife species. It is in the Aberdare that one has the possibility of sighting the rare Bongo antelope, rarely seen in other parts of Kenya.

The following hotels/lodges are either inside or near the park

  • Aberdare Country Club
  • The Ark (this is a tree hotel)
  • Treetops (this is a tree hotel)
  • Outspan Hotel

Amboseli National Park

It is located on the southern border of Kenya. It is famous as it has the largest population of elephants in Kenya, and the magnificent view of the peak of the highest mountain in Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro. It has variety of wildlife species and has wonderful sceneries.

Main Attractions

  • Wildlife 

  • Mt. Kilimanjaro

  • Observation Hills

  • Lake Jipe

  • Lake Amboseli

  • Dams i.e. OlKenya, Etuikui and ElKongonarok

Accommodation

  • Oltukai Lodge

  • Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge

  • Tortilis Camp

  • Amboseli Sopa Lodge

Lake Baringo

This is one of the lakes found on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. It is around 280km from Nairobi. The lake has numerous bird species and other wildlife. The reserve is full of different activities like fishing, boat rides, bird watching , game watching excursion to other neighborhood lakes; Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and Lake Elementaita and even has a tribe living on the island called Njemps, who are a tourist attraction as they have reserved their culture .There is a national museum at Kampi Samaki.

Attractions

  • Nine Islands

  • The Njemps tribe

  • Hot springs at Kampi Samaki

  • Community museum at Kampi samaki

Accommodation

  • Lake Baringo Country Club
  • Island Camp

Lake Bogoria

It is on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. This is an alkaline lake, tinted jade although the shallow waters are often blanketed with a broad band of pink as thousands of flamingoes gather to feed on algae. It has large variety of birds and animals. It has some of the volcanic activities such as geysers and hot springs.

Attractions

  • Flamingoes

  • Hot Springs

  • Geysers

  • Greater Kudu 

  • Ngendell Escarpement

Accommodation

  • Lake Bogoria Hotel

  • Fig Tree Camp

  • Riverside Camp

  • Akasher Camp

 

Lake Elementaita

It is one of the Great Rift Valley lakes. Has numerous species of birdlife and antelopes. It is next to Kariandusi geonomite where remains of the early man, Australopithecus were found.

Attractions

  • Flamingoes

  • Kariandusi geonomite

  • Bird watching

Accommodation

  • Lake Elementaita Lodge

LAKE NAIVASHA

Lake Naivasha is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, and it serves as a transit point for Lake Nakuru, Lake Baringo and Mara National Reserve. It is renowned for its beautiful scenery and numerous, rare bird species which are regularly sighted and other wildlife. It has a golf club in one of the spacious hotel, the Rift Valley Lodge and Golf resort overlooking Lake Naivasha. While in Lake Naivasha one has the opportunity to visit Hells Gate Park famous for its wonderful sceneries, a chance to hike Mt. Longonot (extinct volcano) or visiting the Crater Lake with its emerald green colored water.

Attractions

  • Boating

  • Bird watching

  • Sceneries

Accommodation

  • Elsamere

  • Lake Naivasha Country Club

  • Naivasha Simba Lodge

  • Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge

  • The Great Rift Valley Lodge and Golf resort

  • Lakeside Tourist Lodge

  • Fishermen Camp
  • Malewa Lodge

Lake Nakuru National Park

One of the great lakes in the Rift Valley. The lake is one of the world’s greatest ornithological spectacles with over 450 species of birds and its also game sanctuary to the endangered Black rhino. It has a spectacular display of its famous flamingo resident, where you can see the flamingoes and also the Big Five.

Attractions

  • Flamingoes

  • Wildlife,  The Big Five

  • Black Rhino (endangered species)

  • Bird Sanctuary

Accommodation

  • Sarova Lion Hill
  • Lake Nakuru Lodge
  • Mbweha Camp (outside the park)

LAKE VICTORIA

Located in the western part of Kenya, its islands are one of the prehistorical sites in Kenya. The region is full of activities such as fishing of one of the largest fish, Nile perch, boat racing and wildlife viewing.

Accommodation

  • Rusinga Lodge

  • Takawiri Island Resort

  • Imperial Hotel

  • Sunset Hotel

  • Mfangano Island Camp

The majestic Maasai Mara National Reserve

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is one of the famous and richest reserves. It has numerous wildlife  species from birds to animals. It is also known for its annually migration of the wildebeests which is seasonal. This is where you have the possibility of sighting all the ‘Big Five’ and abundant game.

We have over 460 species in Maasai Mara. The attraction on the game reserve is wildlife It is the richest national park in Kenya

Attractions

  • Wildlife

  • Siria Escarpments

  • Loita Hills 

  • Savannah grasslands and dotted plains

  • rivers e.g Mara, Talek and Sand river

Accommodation

  • BaseCamp Maasai Mara

  • Fig Tree Camp

  • Mara Safari Club

  • Sarova Mara Camp

  • Siana Springs

  • Governor’s Camp

  • Little Governors Camp

  • Governors Camp Ilmoran

  • Keekorok Lodge

  • Kichwa Tembo

  • Mara Intrepids

  • Mara Explorer

  • Mara Simba Lodge

  • Mara Sopa Lodge

  • Mara Springs Safari Camp

  • David Lavingstone Safari Resort

  • Mara Hippo Lodge

  • Sekenani Camp

  • Musiara Lodge

  • Mpate Club

LAKE MAGADI

One of the prehistorical sights in Kenya. It is magnificent of its weather and abundant of salt in its lake and bird life.

Accommodation

  • Shompole
Meru National Park

Meru national Park is renowned for its association with Joy Adamson.Of all Kenyan Parks, Meru offers  the highest variety of landscape and habitat. It has two main areas i.e. North of RonjoWero River which is a hilly and densely forested area; and south of RonjoWero River which is dry and spacely vegetated area. It is bisected by 13 rivers and numerous streams.

Attractions

  • wildlife

  • Sceneries

  • Vegetation

Accommodation

  • Meru Mulika Lodge

  • Leopard Rock Lodge

  • Kindani Camp Site

  • Morera Bandas

  • Elsa’s Kopje

MOUNT ELGON National Park

One of the Kenyan’s mountains. It is found on the western part of Kenya.

Accommodation in Mt. Elgon National Park is available at:

  • Sirikwa Hotel, Eldoret
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SAIWA SWAMP

The park covers 1.6 square Kilometers.It is the smallest park in the country and it is the home of the sitatunga antelope .this national park is about 24km from Kitale in TransNzoia district.

Accomodation
  • Sirikwa Hotel, Eldoret

MOUNT KENYA

This is the highest mountain in Kenya and offers adventurers with unique experience of mountain climbing of its peaks.

Attractions

  • Mt Kenya

  • Bamboo Forest

  • Wildlife

Accommodation

  • Mountain Rock Kenya
  • Mt. Kenya Safari Club
  • Mt. Kenya Game Reserve
  • Naro Moru River Lodge
  • Sweet Waters Tented Camp
  • Mountain Lodge Serena

Nairobi

This is the capital city of Kenya. It has the largest airport serving many international and domestic airlines. Its national park is the only one in the world that is next to a major city. It is  full of sceneries and different species of wildlife. The city itself is an attraction; it has the museums, historical buildings, parliamentary buildings and many other architectural monuments.

Accommodation

  • Nairobi Serena

  • Hilton Hotel, Nairobi

  • Windsor Country And Golf Club

  • Norfolk Hotel

  • Safari Park

  • Utalii Hotel

  • Nairobi Safari Club

  • Stanley

  • Panafric

  • Intercontinental Hotel

  • Jacaranda Hotel

  • Holiday Inn

  • Hotel Boulevard

  • Marble Arch Hotel

OL PEJETA

  • Sweet Waters Tented Camp (in Sweet Waters Game Reserve)

  • Ol Pejeta Ranch House (in Ol Pejeta Private Ranch)

 

SAMBURU GAME RESERVE

This reserve offers unique experience because of its wilderness and the rare species of animals found in it. It gives a chance to sight the Grevys Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe and the Somali ostrich, which are rare in other parts of Kenya.

Accommodation

  • Samburu Intrepids

  • Samburu Serena Lodge

  • Larsens Tented Camp

  • Samburu Lodge

  • Buffalo Springs tented Camp

Shaba GAME RESERVE

It is located near the Samburu reserve and gives a chance to tour both the parks at a time. the reserve was made famous of the Joy Adamson who raised Elsa the lioness. It is also known as ‘Born Free Country’

Accommodation

  • Sarova Shaba Lodge

SHIMBA HILLS RESERVE

The only reserve found on the coastal Kenya. It is the last remaining habitat of the sable antelope in East Africa. Other animals are elephants, colobus monkeys, buffalo, giraffe and many more. On clear day one can see the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.

Accommodation

  • Shimba Hills Tree  Lodge (it’s a tree hotel)

TSAVO EAST National Park

This is on the other part of Tsavo National park. It has numerous wildlife, and beautiful, unique scenery. Attractions
  • Physical Features.
  • Widlife
  • Tsavo - Galana.
  • Mundanda Rock: -It is 2 kilometres long, 120 meters wide and 2.3 meters high
  • Lugard Falls.
  • Yatta Plateaus.
  • Arumba Dam.

Accommodation

  • Patterson’s Safari Camp
  • Voi Safari Lodge
  • Voi  wildlife Lodge
  • Tsavo Safari club
  • Arumba Lodge
  • Man Eaters Lodge
  • Westmen Camp
  • Crocodile Tented Camp
  • Tsavo Inn

Tsavo West N. PARK

Tsavo West is mainly known for its features, sceneries and widlife. Attractions
  • Wildlife
  • Mzima Springs
  • Shaitani Lava Flow
  • Rolling Rocks  & Caves
  • Ngulia Hills & Escarpements
  • Chyulu Hills 
  • Lake Jipe
  • River Tsavo

Accommodation

  • Voyager Ziwani
  • Kilaguni Serena Lodge
  • Finch Hatton's Camp
  • Ngulia Safari Lodge
  • Voi Wildlife Lodge
  • Voi Safari Lodge
  • Lake Jipe Safari Lodge
  • Taita Hills Lodge
  • Salty Lake Lodge
  • Kitani Lodge 
  • Tsavo Inn 
  • Ziwani Tented Camp
  • Severin Safari Camp
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