{"id":97110,"date":"2023-04-27T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/?post_type=location&#038;p=97110"},"modified":"2023-04-27T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:39:57","slug":"moutn-elgon-national-park","status":"publish","type":"location","link":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/location\/moutn-elgon-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Moutn Elgon National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Elgon National Park is 470km (292 miles) north-west of Nairobi, straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda. It is 11km from the town of Kitale, and close toSaiwa Swamp. The park covers 169km\u00b2 with Mount Elgon, Kenya\u2019s second biggest mountain, situated at its center. The mountain is covered with vast areas of natural forest and huge Elgon teak and cedar trees that tower 80 feet (24m) above the forest floor. Mount Elgon is also known for its lava tube caves, which are frequented by the resident elephants.<\/p>\n<p>The wild and remote location of this national park offers excellent viewing of African animals found in Kenya. There are over\u00a0<strong>400 elephants plus buffalo, leopards, the colobus<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>blue monkeys<\/strong>\u00a0(a protected species),\u00a0<strong>hogs<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>waterbucks<\/strong>\u00a0and various species of\u00a0<strong>antelope<\/strong>. They can be viewed from a 4\u00d74 wheel drive truck and the many hiking trails which wind around the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/mount-elgon-national-park\/\"><strong>Read More\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1281,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-97110","location","type-location","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location\/97110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/location"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pridedrivetours.co.ke\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}