Where is Aberdare National Park
Where is Aberdare National Park Kenya : The closer location of Aberdare national park is in the central Kenya which has made the park to be a top visited national park especially by the guests with the wildlife safaris in Kenya from Mombasa making it the best gateway escapade. Aberdare national park was gazetted in 1950 and occupies an area of 767 sq. kms. It sits between elevation of 2000 and 4000 meters. Its landscape is unique comprising of the mountain peaks that rise up to 4000 meters to V-shaped valleys intersected by the rivers, waterfalls, Streams, Aberdare national park is famous for its black rhinos, thus during your safari, you can be able to spot many of the black rhinos in their habitats, not only that the park is animal haven where it has got the big 5 animal species that includes (lion, rhino, elephant, leopard, buffalo) and many other animal species in the park, as well the park has various bird species which are over 250 species in the park.
Aberdare National Park is a protected area in the Aberdare Mountain Range in the central Kenya located east of the East African Rift valley. Aberdare national park is located about 100km north of Nairobi. Aberdare national park headquarters are 15km from the Nyeri town, along the Nyeri-Nyahururu road. The park is located in Nyandarua county and Nyeri county, in Nyeri city.
The location of the Aberdare national park makes it possible to be visited from all the corners that is the Park can be visited either from Nairobi or Mombasa as well as from all the neighboring parks like the Ol Pejeta conservancy, Mount Kenya national park, as this entirely all depends on the location of the tourist on the start of the tour.
There are various gates used to access Aberdare national park depending on where one is starting the safari from, however the major gates used are the Treetops, Ark, Ruhuruini, all these gates bring you to Mutubio gate to the park, Aberdare national park is located 158.4km from Nairobi which takes you 4 hr. and 1 minute on the drive.
There are several gates, which are eight of them that help you to access the Aberdare national park that includes the Ark gate, Treetops gate, Ruhuruini gate, Kiandongoro gate, Mutubio gate, Wanderis gate, Rhino gate and the Shamata gate.
Aberdare national park is strategically located, in that the park can be accessed either by the air or aby the road means of transport to access the park, whichever way you choose to get to the park, at the end of the safari, you will have an overwhelming experience in the park.
Aberdare national park can be accessed when the tourists use either the public vehicles or the air means, but the best route to reach the Aberdare national park is the way that runs from the town of Naivasha and Nyahururu which covers a distance of 87 kilometers while passing through beautiful slopes upto the moorland. Traveler can use Nyahururu road passing through Nyeri town in order to access the park headquarter which takes you 15 kilometers. However using a trusted tour operator is always the best way to enjoy your Kenya safari in Aberdare national park and any other safari destination in Kenya and the surrounding African countries.
Also for the tourists who wish to get to Aberdare national park by air, there are good number of the airstrips within the park thus the tourists need to book the domestic flights like the AirKenya and Safarilink from Nairobi at Wilson airports to various airstrips in Aberdare national park that includes the Mweiga and Nanyuki which are located close to the Aberdare national park, so the traveler can reach to Aberdare national park by air transport through flying to Mweiga Airstrip which is the closet airstrip to the park.
The Location of Aberdare national park makes it one of the easiest national park to access while on your Kenya safari as well as the park has various attraction to see during your safari ranging from the black rhinos, Big five, birds species, Aberdare ranges and many more. Aberdare national park is always ready to receive the tourists who come to visit the park all the year around but I would obviously recommend visiting the park during the dry season as that’s when the park is best for the wildlife viewing, trekking, hiking, sprout fishing and many other activities.
