The parks outlined above make up just a small portion of the total areas of natural beauty and interest (concerning flora & fauna) that you can visit while on safari in Kenya. There are numerous other places to go depending on your interests.
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Areas of Natural Beauty
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Mount Kenya National Park
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This was established in 1949 and covers an area of 588 sq.km. There are different types of vegetation on the mountain, ranging from forest to bamboo, and it includes Alpine moorlands, glaciers, tarns and glacial moraines.
Lake Nakuru National Park
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This park, about 62 sq km in extent, is world famous for the flamingos that come to its shallow alkaline lake in Kenya’s Rift Valley.. The landscape is picturesque with areas of sedge, marsh and grasslands as well as rocky cliffs and hillsides.
Meru National Park
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Meru National Park covers an area of 1813 sq kms to the north east of Mt Kenya. It is part of the domain made famous by Elsa the lion. The park ranges from 3,400 ft in the foot hills of the Nyambeni range, its northern boundary, to less than 1000 ft on the Tana river. [...]
Saiwa Swamps National Park
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This is one of the smallest national parks in Kenya, covering an area of only 15.5 sq kms. The park was especially created to protect the small population of Sitatunga antelope, which are semi-aquatic.
Aberdare National Park
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This was established in 1950 and is approximately 590 sq kms. The mountains are part of the central highlands of Kenya running roughly north-south between Nairobi and Thompson Falls. In altitude the range rises to some 12,900 ft..
Tsavo East and West National Park
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The Tsavo National Park is a vast, arid region covering an area of 20,807 sq kms. The Mombasa – Nairobi road splits into its two halves – East and West. The park maintains a diversity of habitats, open plains alternating with savannah bush and semi-desert scrub, acacia woodlands, rocky ridges and outcrops and finally belts [...]
Amboseli National Park
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Amboseli – 3810 sq kms of game park and reserve – embodies five main habitats, plus a generally dry lake bed, Lake Amboseli. It therefore ranges from open plains to yellow-barked acacia woodland, from rocky lava-strewn thorn bushes to swamps and marshes;
Samburu
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Samburu / Buffalo Springs / Shaba Game reserves
Set in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, this is a country of sand-rivers known as luggas, of isolated mountains rising sheer from the plains. Here are found the world’s last herds of Grevy’s Zebra,
Masai Mara
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Masai Mara
The Masai Mara and adjoining Loita plains form the Northern most part of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem.
The Mara reserve covers 1510 kilometre of undulating plains and grasslands. An enormous number and diversity of antelope live here, which makes the Mara a paradise for lion, leopard, cheetah and spotted hyena.
