4 Day | Waterfalls Tour and Safari in Aberdare National Park Kenya
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CountryKenya
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CategoryHiking Safaris
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Price
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CountryKenya
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CategoryHiking Safaris
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Price
Day 1: Nairobi to Nyeri
For your 4 days Aberdares National Park safari tour, you will be picked up from your hotel and then African Suburbs Adventures drives you through the green central highlands rich for farming and other activities. After 3 and a half to 4 hours, you will arrive to Nyeri which is the base town for the Aberdares. You will have a stop over on the way for the lunch.
After that, you will check in a hotel and relax for the evening. At the same time, African Suburbs Adventures will be preparing in doing some shopping for the stuffs of the fresh food to use up on the Aberdares. You will enjoy dinner and stay overnight in a hotel.
Day 2: Aberdares National Park
After breakfast, you will drive to the park headquarters at Mweiga and after clearing with the park, you will sign in to the park through the Tree-top gate. Just after the gate is the salient part of the park where you will have a thick forest which is very rich in big game. This is where you will do the game drive. You can see buffaloes, elephants, hopefully also see leopards, giant warthog, rhino, beautiful bongo antelope (few remaining found in Kenya), and colobus monkey.
You can also see different species of the birds like African green ibis, Cuckoo Hawk, Cape Eagle Owl, mountain buzzard, turaco, sunbird, geese, and the francolin. You will be driving up and you can stop for a picnic lunch. Later, you will get to the Reedbuck Campite which is set up in a moorlands from the camp. You can hear the falling waters in the nearby water falls. Dinner is enjoyed at a born fire just near the tents where you will stay overnight.
Day 3: Aberdares Waterfalls and Nature Walk
After you have breakfast, you will be picked by an armed ranger and you can decide to walk or drive to the waterfalls. This is a rewarding scenic adventure day to the magnificent beautiful waterfalls. The main ones are Karuru Waterfalls that falls in 3 steps; the first step is 117 meters long, the second step is 26 meters long, and the third step is 130 meters long, the total is 273 meters long, very beautiful!
You will have a view point where you stand and see the falling waters and take photos. Later, you can visit Gura Falls then return in the evening back to the Reedbuck Campite for dinner and stay overnight. Lunch will be picnic.
Day 4: Aberdares to Nairobi
After having breakfast at the camp, you will drive back and stop to visit the Chania Waterfalls and take photos from the view point. If the weather permits, you can see the great Rift Valley (Lake Naivasha, Mau Escarpment) and also the snow-capped high peaks of Mount Kenya. Then, you can proceed driving to Nairobi. It's end of your 4 days Aberdares National Park Safari tour.