globallagarto
Arizona

Worth visiting!

Abuko Nature Reserve

For a few dollars they agreed to let me throw out my sleeping bag on the floor of the office and spend the night in the park. The office is a corrogated tin arch shaped barracks type of place. Before leaving me on my own I was warned about the cobra that likes to coil up outside the office door during the night, the black rats that run across the tin roof throughout the night, and the Giant Gambian Rats that scream periodically! Wow! At first I have to admit I was a bit freaked out by all this when it got dark and I tried to go to sleep. But in the night I woke up and thought, hey, there might be some good wildlife viewing at night, so cobra or not I carefully opened the door (no cobra there) and crept around a bit. Didnt’ see anything but I was glad I made the attempt. During the day I was amazed at the birdlife. They have a bird observation blind up on a raised platform next to a lake. The exotic birds just kept coming one after another. I really liked this place a lot. A little known gem.


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