Kakamega Forest and Lake Baringo Herpetology Tour: 6 Days, 5 Nights

We shall enjoy a drive to the famous Kakamega Forest; a key site on all our Kenya Herpetology Safari Tours. Adequate time will be spent exploring Kakamega forest, a remnant of the Guineo-Congolian Equatorial forest. Species diversity here is plenty and we shall hope to have a huge addition to our Herpetology Tour list. We shall spend time walking in the forest in search of local specialties, with short breaks in between. In the evenings, we shall enjoy frogging.

Expected species include Kisolo Toad, Kakamega Puddle Frog, Osorio’s Leaf-folding Frog/Congo Spiny Reed Frog, Cinnamon-bellied Reed Frog, Lake Victoria Clawed Frog, Small Rocket Frog, Grassland/Striped Rocket Frog, Mackay’s Forest Tree Frog, Forest White-lipped Frog, Galam White-lipped Frog, Variable Burrowing Asp, Kakamega Agama, Gaboon Viper, Rough-scaled Bush Viper/Prickly Bush Viper, Gold’s Tree Cobra, Blanding’s Tree Snake, Powdered Tree Snake, Forest Cobra, Multi-scaled Forest Lizard, Jameson’s Mamba, Bell’s Hinged Tortoise, Rhinoceros Viper, Lichtenstein’s Forest Night Adder and Boulenger’s Pygmy Chameleon.

Nights in Kakamega.

Our Herpetology Tour will proceed to the Great Rift Valley, Lake Baringo. This is a very interesting dryland habitat located at the edge of a fresh water lake. Many locally significant species occupy this area and we shall spend the time enjoying these and more. In the evenings, we shall enjoy frogging.

We shall be seeking species such as Red Spitting Cobra, South African Rock Python, Flowered Racer, North-East African Carpet Viper/ Saw-scaled Viper, Puff Adder, Rufous Beaked Snake, Ruppell’s Agama, Speckled Sand Snake, Kenya Dwarf Gecko, Great Plated Lizard, Nile Monitor Lizard, African Five-lined Skink, Tropical House Gecko, Flat-backed Toad, Common or Square-marked Toad or Egyptian Toad, Schilluk Rocket Frog, Gallmann’s Sand Frog, Red-banded Rubber Frog, Steindachner’s Toad and Eastern Groove-crowned Bullfrog.

Nights in Baringo.

We shall have the morning to explore more of Lake Baringo. We shall try some new sites seeking species we may have missed earlier on our Herpetology Tour.

We shall then depart for Nairobi.

In the evening, we shall take an airport transfer for our flights home; marking the end to our lovely Herpetology Tour.

North-East African Carpet Viper/ Saw-scaled Viper, Puff Adder, Rhombic Night Adder, Gaboon Viper, Rough-scaled Bush Viper/Prickly Bush Viper, African Rock Python, Kenya Dwarf Gecko, Boulenger’s Pygmy Chameleon, Nile Monitor Lizard, African Five-lined Skink, Kenya Red-headed Rock Agama, Kakamega Agama, Nile Crocodile, Helmeted/ Marsh Terrapin

Lake Victoria Clawed Frog, Kisolo Toad, Osorio’s Leaf-folding Frog/Congo Spiny Reed Frog, Kakamega Puddle Frog, Senegal Kassina, Gallman’s Sand Frog, Nutt’s River Frog, Anchieta’s Rocket Frog, Eastern Groove-crowned Bullfrog

Savannah, Wetlands, Dry Scrubland, Equatorial Forest

Excellent

the Great Rift Valley, Equatorial Forest walk, Kenya’s Endemic species