Outamba Kilimi is a National Park of Sierra Leone which is located in the extreme north of the country about 296 km from Freetown. The national park is a stunning medley of expansive grasslands, enveloped-woodlands and a stretch consisting other misc species of Lush and dense woods. Kilimi and Outamba are actually two different areas consisting of a huge mass of land, bifurcating the patches of the forest. You can book affordable cheap flights to Sierra Leone with us to get your journey started.
If Outamba and Kilimi are compared, Outamba has grasslands and the woodlands with a look that is more like closed-forest while Kimimi is more of an expanse of easy to figure out open-grasslands and a large number of travellers visit here. One of another good place to visit is the River Idrissa where you can watch hundreds of rare species of birds and animals which inhabit this unpretentiously and rough park.
What the national park is famous for is the Bird watching as well as finding other wild-life in their natural environment. With the help of binocular and modern photography equipment, you can have some wonderful photos with the pigmy-hippopotamus, chimpanzees, red colobus monkeys, leopards, savanna buffalos and many other wildlife animals.
You can also take a trip to the canopy and doing so with a guided trip is even better. To help you in unveiling the true beauty of the place, well informed and very friendly staff of the wild-life conservation can prove to be very useful. You can take any of the walking trails from the jagged-oaths which wind about Outamba and Kilimi.
Outamba and Kilimi is not a place where you can find 5 star and luxury hotels and you also won’t find electricity of tap-water in the park. You’ll however find some multi-function camps offering basic clean accommodation, cooking arrangements and a visitor center. The visitors can book one of the quaint as well as attractive thatched-huts adorning the riverside and requesting for some cooking facilities. What Outamba-Kilimi National Park provides best is the gamut of activities related to viewing the unspoiled nature and wild-account of glory of the nature excluding the modern fancy amenities.
The national park helps visitors form a deeper relationship with the nature by keeping the visit as simple and natural as possible otherwise the visitors would not have succeeded in getting closer to the nature.
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