Snow-capped Mount Kenya is Africa's second highest mountain, a stunning and challenging destination for climbers and trekkers. Below the mountain's alpine meadows roam Mountain Elephant, Black Rhino, Cape buffalo and Antelope. On its lower slopes is Ol Pejeta, a private range and Rhino sanctuary and nearby is the famous Mount Kenya Safari Club founded by William Holden.
The Aberdares sport high alpine moorland and primeval aloe forest. Here you can visit Treetops where leopard can regularly be seen refreshing themselves. The Aberdare Ranges are mountain groups that are also known as the Nyandarua Ranges in Kikuyu. They were explored in 1883. The mountains were named by Joseph Thomson in 1883 after Lord Aberdare who was the then president of the Royal Geographical Society. Lying in these mountains, this park covers an area of 770 square kilometers.
A mixture of mountain rain forest, moorland, thick bamboo forests and sub alpine plants make up the vegetation in this park. Giant Health and Tussock grass cover the moorlands which are crossed by wandering trout filled streams that cascade into beautiful waterfalls. Vast numbers of wildlife are found on the eastern side of the Aberdares as compared to the Western side which is surrounded by the steep eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley.
