Safari no Kenia
Rafael & Edgar Monteiro

Principal Nairobi Treetops Lake Nakuru Masai Mara Masai Tribe Kenia				Treetops Hotel De nairobi seguimos para Aberdares e passamos a noite no Hotel Cabana chamado Treetops. Em Treetops fizemos nosso primeiro safari, onde observamos a vida animal selvagem que vinha à lagoa beber água durante a noite.    Treetops Detalhes Aberdares Dados Básicos   -   Detalhes
		Próximo
	Rafael	Edgar	Room	Lake	Egyptian goose
	Elephant	Deer	Boar	Monkey	Antelope
				Antelope	See of the room

Detais - TreeTops

The Treetops is the original tree lodge, and is world famous for its location facing a water hole and a salt lick in the Aberdares National Park as well as its historical royal connection. The lodge lies at 6,450 feet above sea level.

In 1932, its first visitors gingerly climbed the wild fig tree supporting the two-room tree house. In February of 1952, a young English girl climbed the tree as a Princess one afternoon, to descend the following morning as Queen Elizabeth II --her father, King George VI had died during the night.

Accommodation And More

• The lodge rises straight out of the ground on stilts.
  

• It has 4 decks and a rooftop-viewing platform.
  

• There are 50 twin bed rooms, which are neat and cozy and are designed like cabins on board a ship.
  

• Dinner is imaginatively served at tables with bench seating.
  

• Coffee and liqueurs are served in the comfortable lounge, which features picture windows and trees growing through the building.
  

• The bar is open every night till midnight.
  

• Mount Kenya's breath taking view is visible on clear mornings.
  

• Treetops have open balconies for viewing and photography; two photographic hides at ground level at either end of the lodge allow really close shots of unsuspecting animals.
  

• There is an optional buzzer in every room that alerts the guests if something special were to show up at night.

Basic Facts - Aberdares

Size: 766 sq kms 
Province: Central 
District: Nyeri and Murang'a 
Geographical Location: Central highlands, west of Mount Kenya. 
Altitude: 1,829-3,994m 
Vegetation: Rich alpine and sub-alpine flora giving way at lower altitudes to bamboo forests and montane forests. 
Fauna: Mammals of the forest zone include blue monkey, colobus, leopard, elephant, warthog black rhino, giant forest hog, bushbuck, buffalo, red duiker, and sum. The open moorlands have serval eland, several species of duiker, and the rare bongo. 
Bird Life: More than 200 recorded species. 
Special Features: Trout can be caught in the moorland streams. 
Visitor Facilities: Two lodges, two self-help-fishing lodges, and five campsites.

Details - Aberdares
The Aberdares is the established name of a mountain range which thrusts directly north from Nairobi for more than 160 kms. The range was named after then President of the Royal Geographical Society by the intrepid Scot, Joseph Thomson, who explored the region in 1883. The Kikuyu name Nyandarua is slowly gaining prominence. 
The Aberdare National Park encompasses all land over 3200m together with a projection due east, known as the Salient, which reaches down to 2130m near Nyeri town. The park is a fairyland, awesome in its majesty and beauty. But crossing these mountains is an unpredictable event since rain is both frequent and heavy. The highest point of the range is Ol Doinyo Satima (the mountain of the young bull in Maa language of the Masaai), which reaches 3998m. At an elevation of about 3350m along the Naivasha to Nyeri road, strange six metre tall mutants of alpine plants - groundsel, erica, hypericum, lobelia and sennecio - grow in profusion. Icy rivers plunge in glorious cascades and spectacular waterfalls. 
The salient which thrusts a dense forest through rich farmland is where both Tree Tops and the Ark are situated. The salient's origin lies in an elephant migration route between the two mountains, now sadly no longer. But the forest is rich in wildlife; elephant and rhino, warthog, bush pig and giant forest hog, waterbuck, duiker, suni, dikdik, bongo and reebuck are all to be seen. In the canopy the black and white colobus monkey performs its arial acrobatics and Sykes' monkey and black faced vervet can also be found. 

The carnivores are represented by lion, usually more hairy and spotted than on the plains, leopard and serval, the latter often seen on the moorlands and sometimes in its melanistic state. 

Birds are not only plentiful, but dazzling. The crowned eagle (which eats monkeys) is everywhere and the forest echoes to the shrill cries of the silvery-cheeked hornbill. The resplendent sunbirds are well represented, among them the brilliant metallic violet Tacazze, the emerald green Malachite Sunbird and on the moorlands the Scarlet tufted Malachite Sunbird, with its very long slender tail. 

The number of visitors to Aberdare National Park is high, mainly due to the popularity of Tree Tops and the Ark. The park itself is still very much under-visited despite its grandeur and its powerful vistas. 

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