Aberdares National Park

Aganpanthus in the Outspan garden at breakfast.

Mount Kenya viewed from the terrace – digitally enhanced, but only to remove the haze (honest!)

Flowers on a huge cactus

An ibis at the KWS offices where we bought our tickets for the park.

A young buffalo

Baboon

Nice yellow flowers

Big buffalo tries to hide

Salty rock – you can just see the marks where the animal scrape it with their teeth.

Monkey!

Heading up – the park is in three levels (tropical forest, bamboo, and moorland)

Out on the moorland

Despite the gloomy weather the vies were good

More flowers

Chania Falls

Something like a teasel

“Fur”  hangs on the trees

The Chania river

A sole hill on the moorlands

The next fall –

Queen’s Cave below the falls

A female reed buck

Amos, our driver, named her “Imelda”

View from lunch

More antelope

Moor views

Bush buck

Monkey

LEOPARD! (I know, it focused on the tree, but I don;t care!)

Buffalo on a hill

Water buck (female)

And male

The whole herd

A sole elephant – like in Araboku Sokoke, we saw lots of evidence but few animals!

A big wart hog

Back at Treetops, a sole male elephant was eating the mineral-rich soil

A pair of hyenas (we saw several more in the night, chewing on a carcass, but the light was too low)

Looking over the water hole at night

And so to bed in the Queen’s bed! A night of luxury 🙂