Saiwa Swamp National Park

Saiwa Swamp National Park

The Saiwa Swamp National Park is a forested paradise filled with exotic flowers, trees and birds. Is compact Park is unique in that it is the only place in Kenya where vehicles are prohibited and the walker reigns.

It is also the habitat of the rare and endangered semi-aquatic Sitatunga antelope and as a preserve for the rare De Brazza’s monkey. Within this tropical wetlands and mosaic of riverine forest, sedges and acacia woodlands, with fringing dense rushes and grass bedsBird life is abundant. Water birds include the lesser jacana, grey heron and the African black duck while the forest shelters the Narina trogons, the collared and orange-tufted sunbird, the yellow bishop, Hatlaub’s marsh widow bird and the Noisy Ross’s turacos which are difficult to miss.

The tourist destination was established to provide protection to the endangered Sitatunga, a semi-aquatic antelope. Further wildlife species commonly found in the swamp include the Genet cat, Otter, bushbuck, Serval cat, mongoose, and monkeys.  The habitat is also rich in birdlife