Сафари Kenya
A Day Out From NairobiOlorgesailie Prehistoric Site The journey to Olorgesailie prehistoric site is a dramatic one, climbing over the slopes of the Ngong Hills before descending into the Great Rift Valley and Maasailand. The site is some 60 km from the city centre and was once, about half a million years ago, |
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Aberdares (Nyandarua)The Aberdares is the established name of a mountain range which thrusts directly north from Nairobi for more than 160 km. The range was named after the then President of the Royal Geographical Society by the intrepid Scot, Joseph Thomson, who explored the region in 1883. |
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Amboseli National ParkAmboseli National Park, at the foot of Africa's highest mountain, 5895m Kilimanjaro, is one of the most popular of Kenya's national parks. It lies some 240 km south-east of Nairobi very close to the Tanzania border. The snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Eastern National ReserveIn the eastern part of the country there are five national reserves and one national park. The reserves are Arawale, Tana River Primate, Boni, Dodori, and the Shimba Hills. The one national park is Arabuko Sokoke. Arawale National Reserve |
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Lake Nakuru National ParkLake Nakuru, a small (it varies from 5 to 30 sq km) shallow alkaline lake on the edge of the town of Nakuru lies about 160 km north of Nairobi. It can therefore be visited in a day tour from the capital or more likely as part of a circuit taking in the Maasai Mara or Lake Baringo and east to Samburu. T |
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Lake Turkana en Sibiloi National ParkLake Turkana The region around Lake Turkana has become famous as one of the great sources of evidence of modern man's earliest existence. It attracts the adventurous and the inquiring for many have heard of its fearsome terrain. Windswept and very hot the lake lies in desert or semi-desert about 650 km, by road, north of Nairobi. |
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Marsabit National Park en ReserveMarsabit town, which lies tucked in between the National Reserve to the north and the National Park to the south is about 560 km from Nairobi. The road is tarmac to Isiolo but thereafter has a rough earth surface for the remaining 310 km. The town and its sanctuaries lie atop a mountain rising sheer from the desert floor to a height of about |
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Mount KenyaMount Kenya is the country's highest mountain. Sitting astride the equator its icy summit reaches to 5199m (17,058 ft). All of the mountain above the 3200m contour forms a national park. In fact the mountain consists of three principal zones; the rocky peak area, actually an eroded volcanic plug, with its mantle of glaciers and snowfields; the alpine |
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Nairobi National ParkNairobi, as a capital city, is unique in having a wildlife park on its doorstep. Indeed the city abuts the park on all but the southern perimeter so it is possible to photograph a rhino, browsing peacefully among the whistling thorn with high rise office buildings in the background. |
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Nasalot And South Turkana National ReserveThese reserves lie on either side of the main highway about halfway between Kitale and Lodwar. Neither is well endowed with game but Nasalot is dominated by a rugged mountain of the same name which overlooks the Turkwell Gorge, the site of Kenya's latest hydroelectric power scheme. There is no accommodation in either reserve. |
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The Rift Valley LakesRift Valley there are eight lakes, two of which are fresh water and the remainder alkaline. By far the largest of these lakes is Turkana (formerly Rudolf) which has an area of 6405 sq km. Lake Logipe is a seasonal lake just south of Lake Turkana. Further south are Lakes Baringo, Bogoria, Nakuru, Elementeita, Naivasha and Magadi. |
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Tsavo National ParkThe combined area of Tsavo East and West National Parks makes Tsavo one of the world's largest game sanctuaries, larger than Wales in Great Britain or Jamaica in the Caribbean. Lying about halfway between Nairobi and Mombassa it covers 20,812 sq km. Tsavo East is larger and more arid than Tsavo West and is less visited. |
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Samburu, Buffalo Springs And Shaba National ReservesSamburu National Reserve lies 325 km north of Nairobi in the hot and arid fringes of the vast northern region of Kenya. The Reserve is within the lands of the colourful Samburu people, close relatives of the Masai, and harbours a number of wildlife species rarely found elsewhere in any numbers. These include Grevy's zebra, |
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Ruma National ParkLambwe Valley National Reserve) was established in 1966 but its isolation, and consequent lack of income, ensured a very slow pace of development. With its recent conversion into a National Park game viewing tracks and general park maintenance have been established. It is a fine place to see roan antelope |
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