Best Time to visit Aberdare national park

Best Time to visit Aberdare national park : Aberdare national park is the unique safari destination on a Kenya safari. Aberdare national park is Kenya’s central highlands, and the park is known as the scenic and tropical park, the park is such an excellent destination that offers tourists with the unique safari experience in the thrilling scenery. Aberdare National park offers the tourists with the unique and best totally different safari experience to the better-known open savannah parks of Kenya.

Aberdare national park is located in Kenya’s-central highlands, and its 180 km north of Nairobi. The park has got two unusual landscapes the moorland plateau and areas of the dense rainforest. On a safari to Aberdare national park you discover the law of nature with the endless spotting of only unique features in the destination with the beautiful spectacular scenery with the perfect game viewing especially in the eastern sector will make everything massive.

Aberdare national park has got all the attractions with the good safari activities that the tourists can enjoy from the destination, but before anything to do on a safari it’s a necessity as a priority to first know the best time when one can visit the park to enjoy the best of the safari. This article brings you the best time when the tourist may need to visit Aberdare National Park.

Best time to visit Aberdare National Park.

Best Time to visit Aberdare national park
Best Time to visit Aberdare national park

Aberdare National Park is considered more of a year-round safari destination than any other park in Kenya. Aberdare national park is such a mountainous and can experience the mist and rain throughout the year. All the best time is best to visit Aberdare National Park, what matters is the guest’s choice or preference according to what he or she wants and expecting from the safari. Aberdare has got two seasons that is the rainy season and the dry season which makes the tourists to visit the park.

Dry season/ Peak season.

Aberdare National Park can be visited during the dry season or the peak season as this is the best time to visit the park in the months of January and February and from June to September. This is the best times to visit with the most rewarding game viewing.

Dry season in Aberdare national park is the perfect time to explore the park corners as that’s the period when the vegetation in the park grows shorter and thin hence enabling the tourists to have the perfect the perfect spotting of animal species in the park especially the five mammals like the lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalos. During the same time what’s when the roads and trails in the park can be dry and easily passable that contributes a lot towards game viewing.

On a safari to Aberdare National park during the dry season, that’s when there can be consistent heat in the park, that forces the animal species to go and accumulate the all the water bodies within the park as to wash out their thirst or bathing to take away the heat from them. During that period, it gives the tourists the gorgeous viewing of the animal species in the park and rewards the tourists with the great game viewing of the various animal species in the park. During the dry season the guests enjoy the excellent hiking safaris to the Aberdare ranges which is also rewarding through spotting the beautiful wildlife along the way while hiking.

Rainy season/ low season.

However on the other side the tourists can explore and visit Aberdare national park in the rainy or low season, as that’s the period when there are less guests in the park. That’s when the park receives rainfall in the park especially in the months of March to May. During the period it’s the best time for the tourists who are not comfortable with over crowdness in the park to do the safari.

During the period that’s when the tourists do get more information about the wildlife in the park, as you can be independent in the park and the guides gives you more attention and knowledge about the park. Again the time becomes perfect for the bird lovers as that’s the breeding period that makes the bird species to be more in the park, during those months that’s when the migratory bird species from countries like Europe and North Africa appear the park which makes excellent bird watching for the bird lovers.

Although the park can be slippery with rain you are advised to come along with the strong water proof sweaters and jackets which makes your safari the most incredible one. There can be reduced prices on the accommodations during the low season which makes tourists to enjoy the best of their best.

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