Kenya

Kenya is located in East Africa with its coastline on the Indian Ocean and a territory that straddles the equator and the East African Rift, forming a variety of landscape from forested hills, patchwork farms and wooded savanna. Kenya is a rich and rewarding place to travel with dramatic geography, a range of natural habitats with a huge variety of wildlife from graceful hippos at the chain of lakes at Mzima Springs to the Mara conservancy wildlife of big cats, elephants and giraffes and much more.

The world famous national parks and reserves, are watered by seasonal streams and are found in the savanna of the highlands that form the southwest quarter of the country. The bulk of the country's population live in these rugged hills where small holdings and plantations can be found. The hills and grasslands on either side ofthe valley such as the Mara conservancy for example are great walking country and include Mount Kenya itself.

Why Visit Kenya?

• Mount Kenya - many climbers consider Africa's second-highest peak a tougher test than Kilimanjaro
• The Maasai Mara - this is Kenya's natural extension of Tanzania's Serengeti Plains. View the spectacular Wildebeest Migration - the area is home to the famous film 'Out of Africa' and the BBC's 'Big-Cat Diaries'
• Lake Victoria - Kenya's biggest lake, one of the African Great Lakes, with its outflow river being the River Nile
• Teeming wildlife - over a hundred special of large, native mammals including the so-called "Big Five" - elephant, black rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard.
• Safaris - Air safaris, camping safaris, road safaris, horseriding, walking and cycling safaris, balloon safaris are all possible