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Day 2: Full Day in Kakamega Forest National Reserve
0500 Hours: We depart for the early morning sunrise walking through the Forest to Lirhanda Hill the highest elevation (1700 above sea level) of Kakamega forest and see the sunrise.
Here we have great views of the entire Forest, see the Nandi escarpment, see the grasslands within the forest and then turn back and watch Birds, Butterflies and Monkeys.
Kakamega forest is one of the Important Bird Area (IBA) that has over 330 species of Birds including; Ansorge's Greenbul, Blue headed bee eater, Turner's Eremomela and many others forest species.
0930 Hours: We return back to the camp/ lodge for breakfast.
1030 Hours: We visit the Luyhia community and the Market around the forest and see the local thatched community bandas, community home stays, indigenous vegetables and community land cultivation.
1300 Hours: Mid day finds us at the lodge/ camp in time for lunch and rest time follows.
1530 Hours: We depart for a walk through the forest watching various species of monkeys, massive native trees marked as the "Big five" and their medicinal values, butterflies, birds, climb on the canopy watch tower and tour the natural grassland.
We continue watching primates, birds, some animals e.g. bush back, blue duiker, red duiker then we proceed to Isiukhu river where we see the water falls.
Later we proceed to Buyangu hill lookout where we view the Kakamega forest from the top and we turn back to the camp.
1845 Hours: Return back to the camp/ lodge.
