Ruma National Park — Attraction in Ruma-Kaksingiri East ward

Awful service, awful park, awful lady guard. Really disapointed. We arrive there around 10 in the morning. We were charged 8 times more money for the entrance ticket just because we were musumbu (white tourist). For local were 300kes, us we were charged 2375kes per person plus 300kes for the car. They didn't accepted cash money. And the card payment wasn't accepted either. So we had do hire a piki piki to go elsewhere and put some money into their account. We finally went through the park around 12:30. They gave us a panphlet of information of another park. Not Ruma's. No further information, no maps, anything. We got in hoping there will be signals of the routes to be followed to see the animals, but it wasn't like that. We saw some jiraffs and some gazelles. But anything else. We got the impression that we might haven't seen everything. As I said, there were no signals. So we went back to ask the awfull and unfriendly woman guard in the door. She looked at us and say nothing. Just say that at that time of the day, the animals might be asleep. That we could hire a guide, or buy the map. That information wasn't given when we arrived. So we truly believe, that all she cared was about the money (more...

This park is fabulous. Provided you don’t need to see Elephants or Lions. Surrounded on nearly all sides by hills and latent parts of the rift mountains it sits on the grass/scrubland below.

Loads of Giraffe, zebra, antelope, buffalo, eagles, monitor lizards, even Rhino’s (white and black). Leopards too but we were not so lucky. The bird life is ridiculous and beautiful too. A friendly ranger also took us into the separate enclosure to spot the shy Roan Antelope.

We stayed in the KWS lodge. Decent lodgings, a bit dated but comfortable (with a bit of TLC on the window mosquito mesh please!). The lodge stay is extra but the access fee $22 for 24hr pass is comparatively good when you look at other KWS parks.

Provided you read what it says in the tin, this park exceeded our expectations, you won’t get surrounded by other tourists much either. Leave the Mara to them and try...

I was born and raised near this magnificent National park initially Ruma Game Reserve.

During the early days, there was a big consent ration of wildlife until a bigger percentage of the animals were physically driven via Kor Lang’o (a native term for famous path) into Masai Mara and Serengeti and Ngoro Ngoro in Tanzania.

I participated in the crusade for consolidation the scattered wild animals in to the present park in 1976. By then the park and its environs was greatly infested by the presence of tsetse flies which had since been eliminated by the icipe institution based in Mbita point along the shore of Lake...