Saiwa Swamp National Park

Saiwa Swamp is located in Trans Nzoia County in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya.

Saiwa Swamp National Park is a forested paradise filled with exotic flowers, trees and birds. It is commonly known as the habitat of the rare and endangered semi-aquatic Sitatunga antelope and as a preserve for the rare De Brazza’s monkey.

Vegetation in this tropical wetlands includes; a mosaic of riverine forest, sedges and acacia woodlands, with fringing dense rushes and grass beds as well as some of Kenya’s loveliest terrestrial orchids. The bronze and purple eulophia horsfallii, the fleshy pink satyrium crassicaule and crimson satyrium sacculatum orchids abound, including the cometorchid, with greny-white flowers adding to peach.

Bird life is abundant which makes it an ideal Bird Watching area. Water birds include the lesser jacana, grey heron and the African black duck while the forest shelters the Narina trogons, the collared and orange-tufted sunbird, the yellow bishop, Hatlaub’s marsh widow bird and the Noisy Ross’s turacos which are difficult to miss.

Saiwa Swamp National Park is under the management of Kenya Wildlife Service parks.