Saiwa Swamp National Park
Saiwa Swamp is the smallest national park in Kenya and can only be explored on foot, which makes it a rare treat for families. Wooden boardwalks cross the wetland to observation towers up in the trees, where patient children can spot the rare semi-aquatic sitatunga antelope wading through the reeds, along with de Brazza's monkeys, otters and dozens of bird species. The whole park can be walked in a morning.
Good to know: Binoculars make this park — the sitatunga stay in the reeds and the best viewing is from the towers.
Photo: Me espresso / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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