{"id":450,"date":"2016-08-30T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruit.co.ke\/maridadi\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2016-09-05T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:03:40","slug":"kakamega-forest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/kakamega-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakamega Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kakamega Forest is a tropical rainforest situated in the Western Kenya, Kakamega county 418 KM from Nairobi city through, Nakuru, Kericho, Kisumu Kakamega town then Kakamega Isecheno forest station. It is Kenya&#8217;s only tropical rainforest and is said to be Kenya&#8217;s last remnant of the ancient Guineo-Congolian rainforest that once spanned the continent.<br \/>\nKakamega rainforest has over 360 species of birds, 380 species of plants, 400 species of butterflies, 7 species of primates.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\n\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1361.jpg\" alt=\"maridadi1361\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1361.jpg 800w, https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1361-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1361-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kakamega forest plants, 80% are of highly medicinal that traditionaly local people use them to cure Malaria, prostate cancer, comon cold and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Kakamega forest is an Ornithologists dream where many different rare birds species are found including Great blue turaco, Blue headed bee-eater, Turners Eremomela, Yellow bellied wattle-eye, African shrike-flycatcher, Petit&#8217;s cuckoo-shrike and many others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\n\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1371.jpg\" alt=\"maridadi1371\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1371.jpg 800w, https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1371-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/maridadi1371-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakamega Forest is a tropical rainforest situated in the Western Kenya, Kakamega county 418 KM from Nairobi city through, Nakuru, Kericho, Kisumu Kakamega town then Kakamega Isecheno forest station. It is Kenya&#8217;s only tropical rainforest and is said to be Kenya&#8217;s last remnant of the ancient Guineo-Congolian rainforest that once spanned the continent. Kakamega rainforest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-450","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maridadisafaris.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}