Aberdare Ranges In Aberdare National Park

Aberdare Ranges In Aberdare National Park : Aberdare National Park is the popular safari destination on a Kenya safari that is located in the central region and the East on the part of the East African Rift Valley. Aberdare National Park is the attractive and astonishing splendid natural beauty that attracts various tourists from worldwide to the destination to sight the Aberdare ranges that are the top safari attractions in the park, where the park stretched next to an area of 766 square kilometers that forms part of the Aberdare mountain range.

Aberdare ranges in Aberdare national park are the incredible and rewarding safari attractions that are such unique where all the visitors can be attracted on the Kenya safari to witness on the gorgeous attraction.

Aberdare Ranges.

The ranges are about 160 kilometer of an isolated volcanic range that forms the eastern most wall of the Great Rift Valley, which gives tourists the attractive image hence causing every tourist to come and explore the Aberdare ranges. Due to the existence of the ranges, Aberdare National Park is one of the best sites where the tourists can visit the Aberdare ranges for the hiking safaris. Aberdare ranges are such attractive where the ranges do stand at the maximum elevation of about 4000 meters above the sea level with its large numbers of the spectacular forested slopes, wildlife that makes most of the tourists to be rewarded with the wide numbers of the sighting wildlife as they are hiking the Aberdare ranges.

Aberdare ranges in Aberdare national park are comprised of the following,

Mount Santim, this is the highest peak of Aberdare ranges.

Mount Kinangop, this is the second highest peak that stands on the elevation of about 3,906 meters and it is located on the southern end of the Aberdare ranges.

Chebuswa, this stands at 3364 meters.

Table Mountain at 3791 meters.

Martini Hill-stands at 3698 meters then the last one being Elephant hill that stands at elevation of 3590 meters.

Aberdare ranges are the most attractive and charming safari attractions in Aberdare ranges, this is the reason to why most tourists come to explore Aberdare national park. Aberdare ranges are such serene with the presence of the lush environment that is dominated by the diverse numbers of the rainforests, dense bamboo forests, moorland and many others. These vegetation do cover the large numbers of the wildlife including the large numbers of animal species like antelopes, monkeys and among other small mammals without forgetting the large number of the bird species, where they tend to inhabit themselves in the large number of the rainforests that are present everywhere in the Aberdare ranges.

On a safari to the Aberdare ranges you will encounter with the locals that are the early inhabitants of Aberdare National Park, the local Kikuyu people do call the Aberdare ranges as Nyandarua that means the drying hide due to the distinctive fold of its silhouette, on the west side of the Aberdare ranges there are range of the fall off steepy into the Kinangop plateau. Then on the East the slopes there are more gently and from the peak of the ranges Lake Naivasha and Mau Escarpment can be seen in a distance that gives the tourists the incredible stunning views which makes their Kenya safari incredible.

On a Kenya safari the tourists enjoy being in the endless attractive cool environment with the best atmosphere when they get to spot the Aberdare ranges. The Aberdare ranges were founded and named as Aberdare in honoring Lord Aberdare by Joseph Thomson on 1884, Lord Aberdare was the president of Royal Geographical society and Royal Historical Society during that period, as well the Liberal politician who worked as a home secretary from 1868 to 1873 and after he was promoted as the first chancellor of the University of Wales.