Kenya boasts over 40 National Parks and Reserves, each teeming with wildlife and each with its own unique scenery and distinct personality. A good network of roads and well coordinated air charters provide easy access to many wonderful and varied experiences, from classic tented safaris to camel safaris; from hiking on snow capped Mt. Kenya to big game fishing in the Indian Ocean. Kenya is also home to the Maasai - tall, proud nomadic people renowned for their legendary power in battle and bravery against wild animals.
Places of Interest
 Masai Mara National Reserve
An extension of the vast Serengeti, the Masai Mara has immense concentrations of game including its famous black-maned lions. The ancient and often tragic phenomenon of more than a million wildebeest and zebra crossing the wild Mara River in their flight towards the northern Mara grasslands between July and September is an intensely dramatic sight.
Samburu & Shaba National Reserves
A sparsely populated region that is home to unique wildlife species rarely found anywhere else in Kenya - the reticulated giraffe, Grevy's s zebra, the blue-shanked Somali ostrich, the Beisa oryx and the timid, long-necked gerenuk. Shaba was the home for many years of author and naturalist Joy Adamson, and her beloved lioness Elsa.
Mount Kenya National Park
The fertile slopes of Mt. Kenya, Africa's second highest mountain, provide the stunning setting for Kenya's famous treetop game lodges. Many animal species, including elephant, buffalo, giant forest hog and antelope, can be viewed from the comfort of your lodge. At over 17,000 feet, Mt. Kenya is another East African summit popular with adventurous mountain climbers.
Lake Nakuru National Park
Located in western Kenya, Lake Nakuru is a bird-watchers paradise with over 450 species including countless flamingos. Lake Nakuru is a sanctuary for black and white rhinos, and it is also home to the rare Rothschild giraffe.
Amboseli National Park
Hemingway described Amboseli as the "essence of Africa". With snow-capped Kilimanjaro as its backdrop, it provides some of the most spectacular scenery in Africa with wildlife to match. This is the heart of Masai country - these tall, proud nomadic people are renowned for their legendary power in battle and bravery against wild animals.
Tsavo National Park
Tsavo National Park is a beautiful landscape of plains, rocky ridges and outcrops. Due to its size the park is among the worlds biodiversity strongholds. The park has diverse habitats. Though the vegetation can generally be categorized as bushed grassland, the Park has open plains alternating with savannah bush and acacia scrub and woodlands. There are also belts of riverine vegetation. Most large herbivores and carnivores are adequately represented in the park. The park has all the "Big Five" (Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Leopard and Buffalo). Other animals present are the fringe - eared oryx gerenuks, lesser kudu, cheetahs, eland, dikdik, zebra, impala, gazelle, giraffes etc. Game can easily be seen at the various waterholes in the park or the lodge waterholes. With over 500 species, bird life is equally diverse, especially along the rivers and around the dams or water holes. Tsavo is on a migration corridor from the Coast and migrants from other continents have been recorded. Examples of bird species are starlings, weaver birds, kingfishers, hornbills secretary bird and other raptors, rollers, herons, and stocks.
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