{"id":12270,"date":"2009-10-08T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.lofty-tours.com\/2009\/10\/08\/nasolot-national-park\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:55:50","slug":"nasolot-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/2009\/10\/08\/nasolot-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasolot National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scenic Masterpiece<\/p>\n<p>Nasolot National Reserve was gazetted in 1979 and consists 9200 hectares of beautifully rugged land.<br \/>\nIt is located to the north of Mount Melo at over 3.000 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Location: West Pokot District, Rift Valley Province<\/p>\n<p>Distance from Nairobi: 528 Km north west of Nairobi<\/p>\n<p>Size: 92 square Km<\/p>\n<p>Climatic conditons: Hot and Arid<\/p>\n<p>Major attraction: Rocky out crop at the perophery of the<br \/>\nreserve called Nasolot Hill, game viewing<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife: Elephant, lesser kudu, bushbuck, duiker, lion, leopard, Kirk\u00b4s dik dik, spotted hyena,<br \/>\njackal, impala, sykes monkey, beisa and fringe-eared Oryx, waterbuck, olive baboon, buffalo,<br \/>\ngazelle and hippo.<\/p>\n<p>Acess:<br \/>\nRoad: The reserve is 146 Km north of Kitale to the west of the A1 Kitale Lodwar road. The reserve\u00b4s gate<br \/>\nlies 6,2 km off the A1 main road.<\/p>\n<p>Air: There are strips at Turkwell dam and Kaputirr<\/p>\n<p>Accomodation: There are no accomodation options in the reserve. However self-catering accomodation and<br \/>\na campsite is avilable at the Marich Pass Field Studies Centre located 80 km south of the reserve off the<br \/>\nA1 Kitale Lodwar road.<\/p>\n<p>Best time to Visit: All year round<\/p>\n<p>Activities: Game viewing, bird watching, sport fishing and boating at Turkwell dam, nature walks, camping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scenic Masterpiece Nasolot National Reserve was gazetted in 1979 and consists 9200 hectares of beautifully rugged land. It is located to the north of Mount Melo at over 3.000 metres. Location: West Pokot District, Rift Valley Province Distance from Nairobi: 528 Km north west of Nairobi Size: 92 square Km Climatic conditons: Hot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofty-tours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}