The Ultimate Guide to Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park & Reserve

Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park & Reserve Activities

Some of the best activities include snorkeling, boat rides and glass bottom boat tours, game fishing, beach walks and bird watching.

Barrier Reef

This feature will surely blow your mind away. The perfect and well-shaped barrier reef starts from Malindi all the way up to Shimoni with little breaks apart from the river mouths.

The Kenyan coral reefs are the most breathtaking ones in the world as they dazzle above the Indian Ocean waters and shelter more than a million different marine animals.

Enchanted Underwater Marine Life

An enchanted territory of coral gardens, wheeling seabirds, clear seas, sculpted islands and the world known marine park offers you under water unbelievable vibrancy and exploration. The reefs act like shelter and food to sea life.

Small fishes, clams and octopus find refuge in the reefs gaps, while blue parrotfish, snappers, scorpion fish, zebra fish, angel fish, and butterfly fish swim in the crystal clear waters.

Starfish, turtles, rays, and sharks creep around the reefs in search of prey while wrasses, crabs, and eels hide in sea bed holes. Anywhere you find algae growing in the lake look for Sea cucumbers mollusk species brittle stars as these feed on algae. This park is characterized by 12 different types of seagrass and uncountable sponges.

Turtle Territory

In the park you will get to see and learn more about the turtles. This marine park is well known for different turtle species such as Hawksbill, Leatherback, Ridley, Loggerhead Whale and Dolphin Spotting

The reefs are also a safe haven for dolphins such as humpback bottle-nosed and spinner wish you will see in schools or singly in the park waters. If lucky enough you will see the humpback whale or Whale sharks around the Kisite Marine National Park.

Kisite Island, Seabirds

The island is a flat sandbar with a rocky projection which is an ideal bird ecosystem which supports many birds including the breeding roseate and nesting sooty.

Divers and Snorkelers Haven

The park’s waters are warm, incomparable clear and unspoiled coral, an exceptional breath of sea life, the park has outstanding dive points for skilled and the unskilled divers and smokers.

The warm waters, soft corals and marine life in Kisite Marine National Park  makes the park an excellent snorkeling place in Kenya, with the popular areas being at the coral gardens outer edge.

The best snorkeling time is 2 hours before and after the tide. But don’t worry about this since our experienced guides from Aj Kenya Safaris will inform you about snorkeling and marine life in general.

The Shimoni Caves

Being less than 10 minutes from Shimoni Pier to the magnificent coral caves  makes this place worth a visit. The caves have bats and they extend up to 5 kilometers in the interior land.

The locals used them as sacred sites, and during the slavery period the Arabs used them as holding places for slaves before shipment.

Swimming

This park has over 70 dolphin habitats and in our guided tour you will spot dolphins and better chances of swimming with them. The wild dolphins of Kisite Park are nature trained and self feeding. And you will see them hunting and others displaying their skills wildly

Our experienced guide will sail you along their routes giving you a better chance to experience the dolphins sea life. If you wish to swim with the dolphins the tour guide will help you on the best way of doing that.

Other activities are; surfing, sun basking, grass bottomed boat excursions, reef exploration dhow sailing, motor boat speeding games, and a visit to Watamu Marine National Park.