Located 30 km from Mombasa, Shimba Hills National Reserve holds one of the largest coastal forests in East Africa. Shimba Hills National Reserve is home to a very large number of elephant, it is also the only home (in Kenya) for the endangered Sable antelope.
Shimba Hills National Reserve is a small national park situated 56 km south of Mombasa and 15 km inland, in Kenya’s Coast Province. Shimba Hills National Reserve is home to one of the last remaining coastal rainforests on earth and offers a unique blend of wood-cloaked downs, wandering elephant, breeze-fanned hills, plunging waterfalls . In Kenya, Shimba Hills National Reserve is the only habitat of the rare and magnificent sable antelope, this unique Reserve is within thirty minutes of the beach and commands panoramic vistas over the Indian Ocean.
Shimba Hills National Reserve’s Landscape is made up of coastal rainforest, woodland and grassland, this makes the reserve a stronghold of plant biodiversity. More than half of Kenya’s 159 species of rare plants are found in the Shimba Hills, including some endangered species of cycad and orchid.
Shimba Hills National Reserve can be visited in a day trip from Mombasa
