Antelopes at Shimba Hills

Shimba Hills National Reserve is the last remnants of tropical rain forest just outside Mombasa and it covers an area of 202 km2. Attractions to see on this 1 day Shimba Hills Safari include casuarinas forests, Marere Dam (a water hole where animals come to drink water), Sheldrick Waterfalls. The landscape is grassland.

wildlife that can be seen while on 1 Day Shimba Hills Safari/Excursion from Mombasa include elephants, buffalos, giraffes, impalas, heartbeats, rare leopards, black and white monkeys, attractive sable antelopes, and roan antelopes and different bird species including tropical guinea fowls, fish eagles, falcons and weaver birds among others.

Sheldrick Waterfall at Shimba Hills

Picked from your Mombasa early in the morning and drive to Shimba Hills via the Likoni ferry and through Digo (local Coastal tribes people) homesteads and coconut plantations and arrive at the Shimba Hills National Reserve gate and begin a game drive visiting Sheldrick's Waterfalls at 11.00 am escorted by a game ranger.

Drive back to Shimba Lodge for lunch (One of the tree top hotels at the coast region where you have a chance to see animals at the water hole) After lunch head on for another game drive till 3.00 pm where you will check out from Shimba Hills and drive back to your Mombasa hotel arriving in the evening.