2-Day Tour Of Ruma National Park from Kisumu

Endangered Roan Antelope in Ruma National Park

Roan Antelope in Ruma National Park

Highlights

Explore the park and also one of Africa’s rarest antelopes

Embark on an extensive game drive at Ruma National Park

Visit the famous Tom Mboya’s Mausoleum

Kisumu, Ruma National Park

safari, camping, Wildlife

Private Tour

2 Days

Easy

English

Description

Sign up for this 2-day tour, which will cover Rusinga Island, Tom Mboya Mausoleum, and Akala Market. The park is considered the last retreat and the sanctuary of the endangered and threatened Roan antelope, considered one of Africa’s rarest antelopes. Well away from the beaten tourist track and relatively infrequently visited, it is also a park that excels in tranquillity and the solitary enjoyment of the wilderness.

Itinerary

Day 1: Kisumu- Ruma National Park
- Depart from Kisumu after early breakfast by road, passing through Kendu Bay and Homa Bay town to Ruma National Park through Nyatoto gate with an en-route game drive to your accommodation for lunch.
- After lunch, you will embark on an extensive game drive.
- Return to your accommodation in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.
Dinner and overnight at a budget hotel
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Ruma National Park – Rusinga Island – Kisumu
- An early morning pre-breakfast game drive is planned on this day.
- Then depart after breakfast back at the lodge with your packed lunches to Rusinga Island for a tour around the Island. Rusinga is an austerely pretty island with high crags dominating the desolate goat-grazed landscape. A single dirt road runs around its circumference. Life here is difficult, drought commonplace, and high winds a frequent torment. The occasional heavy rain washes away the soil or sinks into the porous rock, emerging lower down where it creates swamps. Ecologically, the Island is in dire straits: almost all its trees have been cut down for cooking fuel or converted into lucrative charcoal.
- The drive brings you to Tom Mboya’s Mausoleum, which lies on family land at Kamasengere on the island's north side, about 7 km by the dirt road from Mbita, or roughly 5 km directly across the island. The mausoleum (open most days to visitors) contains various moments and gifts Mboya received during his life. Tom Mboya, civil rights champion, trade unionist and charismatic young Luo politician, was gunned down in Nairobi in 1969, sparking a crisis leading to over forty deaths in widespread rioting and demonstrations.
- Eat packed lunch at a convenient place on the Island.
- Then drive to catch the 3 pm ferry to Lwanda K’Otieno.
- Pass through Akala market, which is famous for cattle sale in the whole of Nyanza region to get to learn, after interacting with both sellers and buyers, the tricks and preservation of this old traditional trade which is attracting buyers and sellers as far as Kisii, Migori, Kadem, Karungu, Kanyamwa, Gem, Alego, etc.
- Arrive in Kisumu in the evening to check-in.
Meal Plan: Breakfast & P/lunch

What's Included

Professional English-speaking safari guide/driver (Professional safari escort is available upon request at an extra cost)

Guaranteed departures for two or more passengers booking this safari

Transport in a safari van with an open-top

All applicable game park entrance fees

All meals included while on safari

Pre-tour itinerary document

Extensive game drives

Bottled mineral water is provided in the minivan while on game drives

What's Excluded

Domestic and international airfares and departures taxes

Personal communications charges for telephone calls, faxes, email, etc

Tips and gratuities for your driver/guide

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages

Laundry services

Between meal snacks, parks, attractions, and events not included in your itinerary

Know Before You Go

Ruma National Park lies in Western Kenya, near Africa’s largest inland lake, Lake Victoria. The park is considered the last retreat and the sanctuary of the endangered and threatened Roan antelope, considered one of Africa’s rarest antelopes. This park was established in 1966 to protect its rare Roan antelope indigenous population, which exists nowhere else in Kenya. It acquired national park status in 1993 and renamed Ruma National Park at the request of the local community in honour of one of the most powerful Kenya’s wizards, the much-feared Gor Mahia, who was living high on a hill which now forms part of the Kanyamwa Escarpment.

The classic image of East Africa is realized in Ruma National Park, a land of rolling Savannah dotted with picturesque Acacias and backed by dramatic hills. Compact in size, the park is easily traversed by only two major routes and offers a unique mosaic of reverie woodland, golden Savannah and magnificent escarpments. Well away from the beaten tourist track and relatively infrequently visited, it is also a park that excels in tranquillity and the solitary enjoyment of the wilderness. Apart from the Roan antelope, the park also has plenty of African Buffalo (the only native African cow); it is believed that Ruma National Park was the origin of almost all the animals found in Maasai Mara, which were driven away by the Luo community, who are farmers and animal hunters by nature, through Migori, Lolgorien and into Maasai Mara.

To prove this, keenly you could check the African Buffalo in Ruma National Park with the normal Buffalos you can see in Maasai Mara are quite different, and more so, the Buffalos in Ruma National Park are very wild and have wide horns with a very hard and big forehead which were protecting them from the bullets, arrows and spears of the hunters hence they remained behind. The park also acts as a home to the common waterbuck, the Aardvark, the honey badger, the solitary nocturnal African civet, Serval, Genet, Topi, Impala, Vervet Monkey, Olive Baboon and at night, you can hear the sound of the secretive Leopard and the common sound of the spotted Hyena which will give you the memorable sound of the African bush.

Meeting Point

Kisumu, Kenya

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.

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Day 2: Ruma National Park – Rusinga Island – Kisumu

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2-Day Tour Of Ruma National Park from Kisumu

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Itinerary

Day 1: Kisumu- Ruma National Park

Day 2: Ruma National Park – Rusinga Island – Kisumu

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What's Excluded

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