Also in this area is Mwea National Reserve (altitude 3,000 - 5,000ft., opened January 1976 covering an area of 42 sq. kms.), 180 kms. from Nairobi.

Its main feature is the meeting of the Tana and Thiba Rivers within the reserve and the Kaburu and Masinga hydro-electric dams.


Elephant are plentiful in the Reserve.

Other prevalent game includes: buffalo, impala, hippo baboon, vervet and Sykes Monkey, warthog, bushbuck, waterbuck, hartebeest, lesser kudu, jackal. Crocodiles are also found in dams and rivers.

There is no hotel-type accommodation in these reserves or parks.

Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park has one campsite. Mwea national Reserve has two picnic sites:

Gichuki island and Hippo Point.

Central Kenya, the Highlands and the Great Rift Valley

• Nairobi National Park
• Hell's Gate National Park
• Mt. Longonot National Park
• Lake Nakuru National Park
• Lake Bogoria National Park
• Maasai Mara National Reserve
• Aberdare Ranges National Park
• Mount Kenya National Park
• Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park
• Mwea National Reserve