Boni National Reserve : Boni National Reserve Kenya is located in the northern Eastern region of Kenya in the Garissa community. It covers an area of about 1339 square kilometers with its nearest districts being Lamu in Kenya and Ijara in Somalia. More so, the reserve was established in 1976 as a season sanctuary for elephants from Ijara and Lamu districts. The reserve inhabits various tree species seldom found in alternative forests and the commonly tree species discovered here includes Homalium abdessamadii, Croton megalocarpoides, Croton polytrichus, Excoecaria busses and cycad hildebrandtii.
This reserve offers a combination of warm and arid seasons motivated through the North and warm and humid located from the south. Regardless of the confined quantity of rainfall that the overall regions get, and also maintains a huge quantity of range at some stage in the year thus making it a crucial area for clinical natural world research and attracts a number of visitors who visit the reserve for their Kenya safari.
More then, Boni National Reserve is one of the perfect forest tourism destinations that is surrounded by a lot of contradiction and irony and mystery. The park protects wide population of animals and plants among others.
Activities you can do at the Boni National Reserve
Wildlife sightings
The reserve its self is managed by the Kenya Wildlife Service, therefore for any visitors to have game drives with the forest reserve. Wildlife viewing here is rewarding and can be done with the armed ranger guide for your safety. Note, wildlife viewing offers a great close views of different wildlife animals such as the primate that include; Vervet baboons, Monkeys, African Elephants that migrate from Lamu and Somalia. Other species to see include the Gerenuk, Water buck, Hippos, Bush pigs and the ever-elusive Duiker and Shrewd Elephant Mouse. The carnivore’s species to see includes wild dog and black jackals many more.
Birding Tour
Birding tour is best done in Boni forest a habitat of residents and migratory bird species. More so the reserve has five threatened plant species which are identified as Dalbergia vacciniifolia, Canthium kilifiense canthium pseudoverticillatum, Mkilua fragrans, synsepalum subverticillatum. There are couple of threated animal species such as African elephants ‘’Loxodonta Africana’’ and the elephant shrew ‘’Rhynchocyon’’.
Some of bird species to see includes; Lesser Crested tern, Greater Crested tern, Lesser frigatebird, wandering whistling duck, striated heron, Pacific reef egret among others.
Cultural Visits
This is an interesting activity, done through visiting a unique tribe called Boni who stay in the forest and they live as food gather and hunters. Visitors can be guided by the skilled guide in the reserve to their areas and get to study their conventional manner of life and the way they survive in the forest.
Best time to visit the Boni National Reserve?
First of all, Boni National Reserve is safe destination for your next safari. So, visitors just get prepared any day or days in a year for safari here.
Although, there are no accommodation facilities inside the reserve but visitors on safari to Boni can either stay in Lamu or Garissa town.
Well, Boni National Park can be enjoyed if combine it with a visit to Amboseli National Park Kenya or Uganda’s primates; Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to make up a well-designed perfect safari tour package on the African Safaris.
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