• Ruma National Park lies in Western Kenya, near Africa’s largest inland lake, Lake Victoria. The park is considered the last retreat and the sanctuary of the endangered and threatened Roan antelope, considered one of Africa’s rarest antelopes. This park was established in 1966 to protect its rare Roan antelope indigenous population, which exists nowhere else in Kenya. It acquired national park status in 1993 and renamed Ruma National Park at the request of the local community in honour of one of the most powerful Kenya’s wizards, the much-feared Gor Mahia, who was living high on a hill which now forms part of the Kanyamwa Escarpment. 
• The classic image of East Africa is realized in Ruma National Park, a land of rolling Savannah dotted with picturesque Acacias and backed by dramatic hills. Compact in size, the park is easily traversed by only two major routes and offers a unique mosaic of reverie woodland, golden Savannah and magnificent escarpments. Well away from the beaten tourist track and relatively infrequently visited, it is also a park that excels in tranquillity and the solitary enjoyment of the wilderness. Apart from the Roan antelope, the park also has plenty of African Buffalo (the only native African cow); it is believed that Ruma National Park was the origin of almost all the animals found in Maasai Mara, which were driven away by the Luo community, who are farmers and animal hunters by nature, through Migori, Lolgorien and into Maasai Mara. 
• To prove this, keenly you could check the African Buffalo in Ruma National Park with the normal Buffalos you can see in Maasai Mara are quite different, and more so, the Buffalos in Ruma National Park are very wild and have wide horns with a very hard and big forehead which were protecting them from the bullets, arrows and spears of the hunters hence they remained behind. The park also acts as a home to the common waterbuck, the Aardvark, the honey badger, the solitary nocturnal African civet, Serval, Genet, Topi, Impala, Vervet Monkey, Olive Baboon and at night, you can hear the sound of the secretive Leopard and the common sound of the spotted Hyena which will give you the memorable sound of the African bush.

Kisumu, Kenya