Mountain Climbing Safari in Aberdare National Park
Mountain Climbing Safari in Aberdare National Park : Aberdare National Park is a magnificent, great scenic safari destination on a Kenya safari, the park is located 164 km from Nairobi and it is located in the central park of Kenya. The park is famous because of the Aberdare mountain range that contributes to the park being well known for the hiking safari that takes place in the park. Aberdare National Park was gazetted during the period of 1950 majorly cater and harbor the lives of the diverse number of wildlife that is located in the park and to protect the Aberdare mountain range. Aberdare national park is located in the central region of Kenya, then east of the East African Rift Valley. Aberdare National Park is Kenya’s haven with various attractions including the wildlife species, bird species, historical sites, Aberdare rangers, waterfalls and among many others.
Aberdare national park is located on the area that is equal 766 square kilometers where the park is composed of the diverse number of the deep V-shaped valley with the streams, waterfalls, rainforests, bamboo forests, moorland and among many others that makes the park so incredible that’s why most of the tourists both the foreigners and the local tourists do explore the destination because of the diverse features that makes the park to be so special and such attractive. The origin of the name of the park is from the Aberdare mountain range that is known as the isolated volcanic range that forms from the eastern arm of the rift valley that extends up to the 100 km north-south Nairobi.
Mountain climbing safari in Aberdare National Park.
Mountain climbing or hiking safari is the most exciting and rewarding activity that takes place in Aberdare National Park.The Park boasts the diverse number of the mountain peaks that offer the excellent hiking safari that is elephant hike that is located at 3720 meters above the sea level and its only 26 km hike. On the way hiking the elephant hill that’s where the tourists get the rewarding safari opportunity of viewing the numerous amounts of animal species and the diverse colorful bird species which makes the safari activity the most incredible one.
Aberdare National Park as well is a home of the famous and popular Ol Doinyo Satim Mountain that is very attractive to various tourists who come to the park the mountain stands on the elevation of 4000 meters above the sea level, In fact on a hiking safari in Aberdare national park, this is the mountain known of the young bull and it was named after the explore Joseph Thompson and it’s the highest peak in the Aberdare range that every tourist on a hiking safari in Kenya should not go minus exploring. Hiking Ol Doinyo Satim offers the tourists with the gorgeous safari views of the attractive features of the park like the rift valley, wildlife species including the animal species and the bird species, sighting the beautiful landscape that is surrounding Aberdare National Park.
On a hiking safari at Mount Satim it needs when the hikers are physically fit and with the warm clothes as the higher you go the cooler it becomes. And the hike to the summit of the mountain takes the tourists to use 5 hours round hike trip. And it does not necessary need the expert hikers still Mount Satim can be hiked by the beginners that makes them to enjoy exploring the park’s most attractive Aberdare rangers.
Not only the elephant hill and the Mount Ol Doinyo Satim being the only climbing safari destinations in Aberdare National Park. The travelers on the hiking safari in the park can as well carry out the activity from other destinations or mountains like Kinangop in the south of the park, Kipipiri Mountain in the western part near the mountainous moorlands and among others.
Best time to do mountain climbing in Aberdare national park.
Mountain climbing in Aberdare national park is done every year, but the best time to carry out mountain climbing is basically best done during the dry season when the climbing trails in the park are dry and not slippery. The dry season includes the months of June to September and December to February.
