• Explore Ndere Island National Park: A Hidden Gem in Lake Victoria

Ndere Island National Park

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Background Information Ndere Island, National park covers  an area of 4.2 km2 is an island just off the northern shore of Lake Victoria and was opened in November 1986. Ndere means “meeting place” in [...]

Aberdare National Park

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The Aberdare National Park, with an area of 767 Km2  covers the higher areas of the Aberdare Mountain Ranger of Central Kenya, from altitude of 1829M to 4001M above sea level.  The topography is [...]

Amboseli National Park

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Access: • By Road: The main road into the park is from Nairobi via Namanga (240 km) on the Nairobi – Arusha Road, through Meshanani Gate. The other road is from Nairobi via Emali [...]

Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve

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ACCESS: It is located 110km north of Mombasa 45km from Kilifi and 20 km south of malindii, you can get there by road, from Mombasa town or by plane through Malindi. Access through Mombasa [...]

Central Island National Park

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Background Information: The park is within Lake Turkana. Central Island is only 5 km2. Central Island has three scenic crater lakes i.e. Crocodile, Flamingo and Tilapia. Climate: The climate is hot and [...]

CHYULU HILLS NATIONAL PARK

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Hemingway’s ‘Green Hills of Africa’ A magical land of black frozen lava studded with blazing red-hot poker trees: of shoals of extinct volcanoes wreathed in dense forest abs hung with Spanish moss, the Chyulu [...]

  • Predator and Prey Interaction

MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

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Maasai Mara (Masai Mara) is known as Africa’s Greatest Wildlife Reserve, situated in southwest Kenya. Famous for the abundance of lion, the Great Wildebeest Migration and the Maasai people, well known for their distinctive [...]

MALINDI MARINE PARK

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Malindi Marine Park and Reserve lie between Lat. 3o and 4o south, about 118 km from Mombasa town. It is located to the south of Malindi town. The marine park is endowed with magnificent [...]

MALKA MARI NATIONAL PARK

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Malka Mari National Park lies along the Daua river on the Kenya-Ethiopia border in the extreme north east of Kenya on the Mandera plateau. It was gazetted in 1989 due to its reportedly high [...]

MARSABIT NATIONAL PARK & RESERVE

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“The Misty Montane Paradise" The Marsabit National park lies in northern Kenya, about 560km north of Nairobi in Marsabit district. The park comprises of densely forested mountain and three crater lakes that are the [...]

MOMBASA MARINE RESERVE

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ACCESS: Sited in the city of Mombasa the park can be reached by road from the city centre, and then connected by boat from the Mombasa Beach. Roads: From Nairobi mainly use the Nairobi- [...]

MT. LONGONOT NATIONAL PARK

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The savannah ecosystem lies about 90km from Nairobi. The ecosystem mainly comprises of the mountain rising to 2,776m above sea level. On the sides of the mountain are V-shaped valleys and ridges with little [...]

MWEA NATIONAL RESERVE

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The Mwea National Reserve is located within Mbeere District, in Eastern Province, a distance of about 200km from Nairobi.  The savannah ecosystem comprises of small hills with bushy vegetation and scattered large trees. Other [...]

OL DONYO SABUK NATIONAL PARK

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The Ol Donyo Sabuk national park is located about 85km north-east of Nairobi in Machakos district of Eastern province. The ecosystem constitutes a mountain which is entirely covered with dense montane forest except for [...]

RUMA NATIONAL PARK

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Ruma National Park is the only Terestial Park in the entire Nyanza Province. It was initially established as the Lambwe Valley Game Reserve in 1966 to protect its indigenous population of rare roan antelopes [...]

SAIWA SWAMP NATIONAL PARK

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The park is located at 385km from Nairobi and 27 km from Kitale town in Trans-Nzoia District of Rift Valley Province. The park ecosystem comprises of forest and swamp vegetation. The swamp is dominated [...]

SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE

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Samburu National Reserve lies in the Northern part of Kenya. Count Telekis Companion Von Holnel, visited the area in the early 1860s and described it as teeming with game especially buffalos and rhinos. The [...]

SHIMBA HILLS NATIONAL RESERVE

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The national reserve lies approximately 33km south of Mombasa town, in Kwale district of coast province. The coastal ecosystem comprise of a heterogeneous habitat including forestlands, exotic plantations, scrublands and grasslands. The ecosystem holds [...]

SIBILOI NATIONAL PARK

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“The Cradle of Mankind” The park lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, about 800km from Nairobi. The semi desert ecosystem was established to protect wildlife and the unique prehistoric [...]

  • Rwanda Monkeys

TANA RIVER PRIMATE RESERVE

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The primate reserve is located 350km east of Nairobi and 240km north of Mombasa in Tana River district of coast province. The ecosystem consists of riparian forests, dry woodlands and savannah habitats on the [...]