Bordered by the dramatic Kanyamaa Escarpment, and home to Kenya’s only population of roans (one of Africa’s rarest and largest antelope), is the seldom-visited, 120-sq-km Ruma National Park. Besides roan, other rarities like Bohor’s reedbuck, Jackson’s hartebeest, the tiny oribi antelope and Kenya’s largest concentration of the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe can also be seen here. However, the most treasured residents are twenty-eight, very hard to see, rhinos, both black and white, that have been translocated from other parks.
Birdlife is also prolific, with 145 different bird species present, including the migratory blue swallow that arrives between June and August.
