The reason to fall in love with Kenya

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Nairobi National Park

Nairobi is Africa’s third largest city and the regional hub for East Africa. It is also the only city in the world to boast a 12,000-hectare park (117 square kilometres), teaming with wildlife, right on its doorstep. Rolling plains, riverine woodland and thick bush lined valleys are just some of Nairobi National Park’s varied habitats. With its many entrances Nairobi National Park is easily accessible from all of Nairobi whether arriving into Jomo Kenyatta Airport, from Wilson airport or travelling South, from the city itself.

Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The mountain offers a beautiful sight. Its series of peaks are crowned with snow, and its slopes are covered with forest. The 5199 meter (17,057 ft) high summit is a difficult technical climb, several lowers peaks however are an easy destination for any fit trekker.

Hells Gate

Hell’s Gate National Park is a tiny park named after a narrow break in the cliffs, once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It is unique among Kenya’s wildlife parks, as you are allowed to walk or cycle without a guide. There’s dramatic scenery, with steep cliffs, gorges and basalt columns. The national park is home to a wide variety of wildlife, though many are few in number. Examples of little seen wildlife include lions, leopards, and cheetahs.

Lake Nakuru

Lake Nakuru is a very shallow lake in central Kenya. The lake’s abundance of algae attracts vast quantities of lesser flamingos, sometimes more than one million at once. Often called the greatest bird spectacle on earth, the flamingos are one of Kenya’s top attractions.

Amboseli National Park

Amboseli National Park is a relatively small park located close to the Tanzania border at the foot of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. The park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants. Other attractions of the Amboseli National Park include opportunities to meet the Maasai people and spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Masai Mara National Reserve

The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the top tourist attractions in Kenya and the country’s most popular game park. Each year the Masai Mara National Reserve is visited by thousands of tourists who come here to watch the exceptional population of game and the annual migration of zebra and wildebeest. The “Great Migration” takes place every year from July to October when millions of wildebeest and zebra migrate from the Serengeti in Tanzania.

The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the top tourist attractions in Kenya and the country’s most popular game park. Each year the Masai Mara National Reserve is visited by thousands of tourists who come here to watch the exceptional population of game and the annual migration of zebra and wildebeest. The “Great Migration” takes place every year from July to October when millions of wildebeest and zebra migrate from the Serengeti in Tanzania.

Fairmont Mara Safari Club

Surrounded on three sides by the Mara River, the Fairmont Mara Safari Club is the embodiment of tented luxury. Each of the 50 tents at Fairmont Mara Safari Club is superbly furnished with its own private bathroom and a veranda overlooking the hippo and crocodile-filled river. A spacious outside deck overhangs the river and leads to a heated pool, complete with bar and private massage tents. Guests can choose from a wide range of activities including game drives and balloon safaris over the Mara.

Lake Naivasha spectacular resorts

Situated at Lake Naivasha’s southern shoreline in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, the resort blends in perfectly with its natural surroundings. The air-conditioned establishment comprises 84 guest rooms and features a hairdressing salon, a games room, a TV lounge and a children’s playground. Guests may dine in the restaurant and sip their favorite drink in the bar.

The Shimba Hills Lodge

The Shimba Hills Lodge is an adventure itself. Arriving at the Reserve’s gate, guests transfer to safari cruisers and drive to within walking distance of the lodge. The last few hundred meters are covered on foot. There are a variety of walks into the bush accompanied by an armed guard. Early morning game drives by land crusier are also available. The open fronted dining room allows unrestricted game and bird viewing and an elevated walkway extending well into the forest gives visitors a rare few moments alone with nature. All rooms are comfortably and uniquely furnished.

A lioness carrying her cub at Maasai Mara

Baloon Safari at Maasai Mara and Serengeti

Home to the largest migration of mammals in the world, the Serengeti stretches from Tanzania into the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. A hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti guarantees numerous animal sightings in any season. In addition to the more than two million wildebeest, gazelle and zebra that pass through the region during the Great Migration, there are lions, hippos, giraffes, elephants and other big game animals in abundance as well. The best balloon operators use low-noise burners that allow the balloons to float over wildlife undetected.

A game Camp at Sarova Mara

Also located in the Maasai Mara, Sarova Mara Game Camp offers front seats to a great wildlife spectacle. The rolling plains around the Camp are teeming with wildebeest, gazelles and zebras, during the Great Migration months and the Camp is situated right in the center of their migration path. Sarova Mara Game Camp is also a great choice for those seeking a richer experience of Maasai Mara that goes much beyond just game drives. Activities and experiences range from luxury tented living to bird-watching, mini golf, sport fishing and a unique insight into the Maasai culture at the nearby Maasai village.

Focus on Tourism in Kenya

Famous for its classic savanna safaris, Kenya is a country of dramatic extremes and classic contrasts. Deserts and alpine snows; forests and open plains; the metropolis of Nairobi and colorful tribal cultures; freshwater lakes and coral reefs. For many people, Kenya is East Africa in microcosm. The wildlife safaris have been the top tourist attractions in Kenya for decades while other activities include trekking Mount Kenya, ballooning over the Masai Mara and snorkeling in Malindi on the Indian Ocean coast.

Mara Serena Safari Lodge

The Mara Serena Safari Lodge is located in the Masai Mara Game reserve. Set high on a hill with long views over the savannah and down to the hippo-filled Mara Rive it stands center-stage to the legendary migration of the wildebeest. The hotels features 74 rooms, a swimming pool and a sundeck. Activities include 3 game drives daily with dedicated wilderness guides, guided nature walks or bird-watching walks, dinner in the bush and breakfast by the hippo pools.

The beauty of North Coast Destinations

The beauiful sceneries and Wildlife of Mara

Top notch safari destination in the world

Famous for her sweeping plains, spectacular mountains, inviting coastal waters and beaches, abundant wildlife and unique cultures, Kenya has reaffirmed her position as world leading safari destination.

At the 20^th World travel Awards (WTA) grand finale in Doha, Qatar, Kenya scooped The World’s Leading Safari Destination Award. The award endorsed Kenya as the home to authentic safari.

Kenya got the most votes from travel agents across worldwide at the international event held on 30^th November, 2013 to beat other competing destinations.

The award came barely a month after the country’s tourism marketing agency Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) was voted Africa’s Leading Tourism board in Africa by WTA during the Africa chapter held in Kenya in October.

The coveted award aside, Kenya is indeed the original must safari destination. A Kenyan safari is guaranteed to leave a lifetime memory.

With its exceptional tropical coastline of warm waters, coral reefs and powdery golden sand palm- fringed beaches, Kenya is the perfect place to make that lifetime safari.

The spectacular Rift-Valley and its lakes is a sight to behold. Also sitting at the heart of the Rift-valley is Itein, the home of world track stars. Many international athletes have been training at the camps in the Rift-Valley which has got a high attitude suitable for sprinting. The camping facilities offer more than just training. There are safari tours to Lake Baringo, Lake Naivasha, Lake Nakuru, and many other small water bodies and resorts. Visitors also get to joy treats of the cultural tours to the local communities which they mingle with the local folk and get a taste of the traditional dishes and enjoy a sip of mursik(yoghurt) prepared the traditional way.

Other unique attractions such as the annual wildebeest migration are one the memorable Kenya safari experiences that has continued to put Kenya on the international map as a wildlife safari destination.

Each June, around 1.3 million wildebeest gather in the Serengeti to calve. They slowly mass into a huge single herd, until the dry season withers their supply of fresh grass. The scent of rain to the north begins ignites a spectacular migration to the north throughout July, which is a breathtaking sight to behold. The phenomenon is such an awesome sight that it has earned the tag of the Eighth Wonder of the modern World.

This is one of the remarkable wildlife attraction’s that make’s Kenya one of the best wildlife destinations in the world. Kenya’s most popular attraction, the Mara was awarded its title for the sheer volume and variety of game. The Maasai Mara Reserve has been lauded as a total sensory experience holiday. The thrill of leaving camp at dawn, in search of the big cats is an experience that is not available anywhere else.

There is no better time to visit the Mara than during the Great Migration. The sound of the approaching herd is a deep, primal rumbling of thundering hooves and low grunts. The sight of the wildebeest is a staggering- a continuous charging mass that stretches from one horizon to the other making it an endless grey river of life that is mottled with black and white as zebras join the throng.

The Kenyan coastal line is rich in islands, beaches, hotels, safari lodges and resorts. The inviting slow-paced Lamu is a peaceful tropical island where life is lived at its own relaxed rhythm. The Island is a beautiful place of rolling dunes and endless beaches, where tiny villages nestle among coconut and mango plantations and lateen sailed dhows ply the waters.

But Lamu’s real attraction is its Old Town which has seen many visitors and influences, including Portuguese explorers, Turkish traders and the Omani Arabs. All left their mark, but Lamu developed its own particular culture, which has ultimately endured.

Lamu’s narrow streets remain unchanged, an in the markets and squares around the fort life moves at the same pace as it always has since time immemorial.

To visit Lamu is to enter another world. Life slows down, and long days are spent strolling along the waterfront, exploring the town or relaxing in the beaches.

This idyllic island speaks to the heart and soul, ad trip to Lamu is a romantic experience that can bring a lifetime affair. Other spectacular destinations in Kenya include the Kisumu-Impala Sanctuary, Western Kenya resorts, Turkana – The cradle of mankind, Maralal and Laikipia.

Every day in Kenya, a new travel destination is rediscovered. In fact the Kenya’s 47 counties are home to tourism sites and destinations that have a blend of their local cultures comprising the rich and diverse different communities. This rich blend of cultures, wildlife, spectacular sites and climate makes Kenya a safari destination of choice.  

Tourism my passion

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.” ― Joss Whedon