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Ecosystem

Chyulu Hills National Reserve is an ace of exotic snakes. The smooth Black Mamba, ferocious Puff Adder and the fatal Rock Python feast on rodents. The smell of Dung rolling beetles fills the air just above the ground and if you happen to look above the eagle and Tsetse fly perambulation of the sky above presents a classical case of nature’s malevolence against the prey. The presence of Buffalos, Bushbucks, and Elands, should send word round that the Leopards and other carnivores are not far behind. It would be idiosyncratic to talk about forests without citing the Chyulu Hills Mountain Forest, an imposing thicket that gives way to patches of mountain forest dawning ficus and orchid trees in a mammoth congregation of trees.


Climate

With an annual rainfall of 300mm per year, the park is like a dehydrated camel. With an altitude of 5000 to 6000 feet, the climate here should be hot and very wet but is ironically very dry and hardly rains. Dress light and have loads of water with you!

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