After an early breakfast, enjoy the widely varied scenery of Kenya and its people on our 4.5-hour drive towards Nyeri and the forests of Aberdare National Park. A packed lunch is included today.
The road goes up to the foot of Mount Kenya and along Solio Conservancy, where we might be lucky and spot the Deham’s bustard, Jackson’s widowbird and Long-tailed widowbird. We also stop at the Mackinders' Eagle Owl project.
In the afternoon we check in to our lodge in this beautiful park that forms part of the Aberdare Mountain Range and offers some unique flora and fauna. It stretches over a wide variety of terrain, with its mountains and valleys varying in altitude from 7,000 to 14,000 feet. It has many streams, rivers and rainforests. This park was where Queen Elizabeth II was staying on a royal tour when she heard that her father, King George VI, had died and that she was to become queen.
On arrival enjoy birding around your lodge. Bird watching is outstanding, with over 250 recorded species including the Crowned hornbill, Silvery-cheeked hornbill, Hartlaub's turako, Mountain greenbul, White-starred robin, Mountain yellow warbler, Grey-headed negrofinch, Northern double-collared sunbird, Golden-winged sunbird, Hunter's cisticola, Pale flycatcher, migratory Tree pipit, Purple-throated cuckoo shrike, Olive thrush, Spectacled weaver, Scaly francolin, Tropical boubou, Dusky flycatcher, White-eyed slaty flycatcher, Black saw-wing, African olive pigeon and Cinnamon-breasted bee-eater amongst others.
A wide variety of wildlife also lives in the dense forests of this national park. These include elephant, buffalo, eland, hyena, bushbuck, suni, genets, giant forest hogs, Kikuyu colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, olive baboons, warthogs, reedbuck, waterbuck, impala and serval cats, which live in the higher moorlands. You can also hope to see leopard and sykes monkeys.