🇰🇪 Kenya Lake Victoria basin 1 tour

Ruma National Park

Kenya's only home of the roan antelope — remote, rarely visited, Lambwe Valley.

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Country

🇰🇪 Kenya

Region

Lake Victoria basin

Best time

June–October

Coordinates

-0.650, 34.300

About Ruma National Park

Ruma is a little-visited park in the Lambwe Valley — the only Kenyan reserve to protect the roan antelope, plus Rothschild's giraffe, leopard and serval.

Highlights

  • Roan antelope (Kenya's only population)
  • Rothschild's giraffe
  • Bird-rich grasslands
  • Lambwe Valley landscapes
Live forecast · Ruma National Park
25°C Light drizzle · 10 km/h wind
Updated 2026-05-18T16:00
  1. 🌧 28° 16° 💧 6.1mm
  2. 🌦 28° 17° 💧 0.7mm
  3. 🌦 27° 17° 💧 3.0mm
  4. 🌦 28° 16° 💧 4.1mm
  5. 🌦 27° 17° 💧 8.1mm
  6. 🌦 28° 16° 💧 2.1mm
  7. 🌦 30° 17° 💧 1.2mm
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Live wildlife observations
Recently spotted near Ruma National Park

Real observations published to GBIF by researchers, lodges, and citizen scientists — refreshed daily.

Cheilomenes propinqua
2026-01-12 · Kenya
Junonia hierta
2026-01-01 · Kenya
Colius striatus
2026-01-07 · Kenya
Platysteira cyanea
2026-01-12 · Kenya
Lagonosticta senegala
2026-01-12 · Kenya
Ploceus jacksoni
2026-01-06 · Kenya
Source: GBIF.org — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Best time to visit

June–October

Itineraries

Tours that visit Ruma National Park

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