Kenya National Parks and Game Reserves

Kenya National Parks

Kenya national parks and game reserves occupy an area the size of Switzerland and about 7.5% of the country’s land surface. Among game parks in Kenya, no one park is a replica of another; all vary in abundance and variety of wildlife, scenery, climate and altitude.

The deserts, mountains, rivers, the plains, forests, all breath freedom under the scintillating light and constantly changing perspective of the African sky. Kenya’s climate, while varying with locality, it is seldom extreme and over much of Kenya ranks among the best in the world.

While some of our parks have no accommodation, others are served by KWS bandas, self help cottages or comfortable tented camps. Others have environmentally integrated luxury lodges and hotels. Some offer the complete range of options.

National Parks in Kenya

Kenya has a total of twenty six National Parks and twenty nine National Reserves. All of them occupy a total area of 44,359 sq. kilometres or 7.6% of the total area of the republic (5 82,644 sq kilometres). They range from marine national parks, savanna-bush woodland national parks, mountain national parks, arid and semi-arid national parks to lake ecosystem national parks/reserves.

It is not easy to place Kenya’ s national parks and reserves in order of merit in their value of attractions. Every park and reserve is unique in its diversity of attractions and no park or reserve resembles another. To a visitor, there is no difference between a l national park and a national reserve. The difference is ofﬁcial and teclmically based on the establishment status due to the title to the land; and has nothing to do with touristic attractions.

The marine parks are famous for their beautiful coral reefs, coral gardens, beaches and lagoons, brightly patterned coral ﬁshes e. g. Angel ﬁsh, Parrot ﬁsh, Starﬁsh, Sea urchins, lovely porcelain cowries, Green turtles, Octopus, Dugong and big game ﬁsh like Blue marlin, Sail ﬁsh, Giant grouper and Marko sharks.

The savanna-bush-woodland National Parks contain some of the greatest plains game concentrations in the world. The big-ﬁve: Elephant, Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Lion, and Leopard are manifestly plentiful in these parks. The mountain National Parks boast of some of the most superb mountain scenery in Africa, the snow capped peaks of Mt. Kenya with excellent climbing adventures and beautiful moorlands for mountain walkers.

Giant groundsels and lobelia are some of the eye-catching ﬂora on Mt. Kenya and Mt. Elgon. In addition to the mountain scenery and ﬂora, the mountain parks are homes for the big ﬁve (no lions in Mt. Elgon) and a host of other rare mountain species like Bongo, Giant Forest hog, melanistic cats and many mountain bird species.

The lake ecosystem national parks contain the greatest concentration of ﬂamingo in the World (Lake Nakuru National Park) and the greatest crocodile colony in the world (Sibiloi National Park). There are also myriads of other bird species in and around the lakes, schools of hippopotamus and hundreds of land mammal species on the shores of the lakes.

National Parks in Kenya – Game Reserves in Kenya

Other Tourist Attractions in Kenya

Wildlife Conservancies

Cultural Center and Museums

Birding Site

Animal Orphanages

Animal Sanctuaries

Community Tourism Sites

Sports Tourism Sites

Forest in Kenya

Golf Clubs in Kenya

Lake and River in Kenya

Archaeological sites in Kenya

Art Galleries in Kenya

Boating in Kenya

Coral Reef in Kenya

Monument in Kenya

Waterfalls in Kenya

Other Attractions in Kenya

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