KENYA
Blessed with breathtaking landscapes, a friendly local population, pleasant year round weather and the rich collection of wildlife, it is little surprise then that Kenya Tourism offers one of the most desired travel experiences in the world. This website Kenya Tourism, is meant to be your guide to planning a Safari to Kenya and making the most of your visit to East Africa. Travelers considering visiting Kenya have many questions regarding their trip, from the best month to visit to which places to go to and how to plan a Kenya Safari and we are here to provide the best advise and guidance for your propsoed trip.
Must see in Kenya
THE ABERDARES
THE ABERDARES are a beautiful mountain range in the central highlands of Kenya, for the most part, over 3000m (10, 000ft) in altitude. Within the heart of these mountains is the Aberdares National Park, a magical place of dense forest, and misty moorlands, where icy rivers plunge in glorious cascades and waterfalls. This area is rich in wildlife. Among a variety of mammals more commonly seen are elephants, buffalo, rhino, forest-hog, colobus, and Sykes monkeys, and a wide variety of antelope including the legendary and rare bongo. Birdlife is abundant and varied.
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK lies below the most famous symbol of Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro 5, 895m (19, 340 ft) the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. The surrounding area is flat, covered by savannah and acacia scrub and the animals stand in silhouette against the giant mountain, its snow-clad peak floating in the stark blue African sky. A large part of the park consists of the alluvial dried-up bed of the seasonal Lake Amboseli, which in the rainy season can transform into a shallow flood while the dry season brings strange mirages above the lake’s dry shimmering surface.
MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE is situated to the west of Nairobi, on Tanzania’s northern border. This 1,812 km² (700 sq. miles) Reserve is the northern extension of the larger Serengeti National Park – a massive 56,000 km² (5,600 sq. miles).
The Masai Mara offers wonderful scenery and an abundance of big games. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance that existed a century ago. It is a reserve of breathtaking vistas, panoramas of vast rolling plains, hills, and woodland groves, well watered by the lovely Mara River which bisects the Reserve from north to south.
WILDEBEEST MIGRATION
The wildebeest migration takes place within Kenya and Tanzania and is one of the greatest wildlife shows on earth. Between the open plains of the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrate to greener pastures as the seasons change. The precise timing of the Wildebeest Migration changes annually. The calving season takes place in the Serengeti between the months of January and mid-March before the Wildebeest Migration begins, heading towards the Western Serengeti in June.
LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
Situated between Lakes Naivasha and Baringo, beneath the high cliffs of the Eastern Rift, lies Lake Nakuru. This is a shallow soda lake surrounded by yellow-barked acacia woodland and grasslands, rocky cliffs, and hillsides covered with the unusual giant Euphorbia trees.
Lake Nakuru is world famous as home to flocks of greater and lesser flamingoes, which frequently form a stunning pink ribbon along the edges of the lake. But flamingoes are unpredictable and are not always found here in such vast numbers.
