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Kenya lies on Africa's eastern coast, straddling the equator and split from north to south by the Great Rift Valley. Across its 580,000 plus square kilometres you will find vast nature reserves and cosmopolitan cities, all carrying a rich cultural heritage.
Almost every known landform appears somewhere here, from glacial ice to arid desert, mountain massifs to rich savannah, great lakes to dense forest. Peaks stand high above rolling grassland and semi desert, all cradled to the east by the white sand and turquoise water of the Indian Ocean coast. Above all sit the wildlife sanctuaries: 23 national parks and 29 national reserves devoted to protecting the indigenous flora and fauna.
With an incredible biodiversity of more than 25,000 animal species, Kenya offers the quintessential safari experience and continues to attract explorers of adventurous spirit, just as it always has.
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Sitting on the equator, Kenya's weather stays fairly consistent through the year. Inland, days of around 25 degrees Celsius give way to nights of about 10, while the humid coast runs from roughly 30 by day to 15 at night. Conditions are seldom harsh: rarely too hot, rarely too cold, with long sun filled days.
Kenya's premier game reserve, kept green by the Mara River and holding permanent wildlife populations that make it a compelling visit in any season. It is world famous for the annual Great Migration between July and September, when more than a million and a half wildebeest, over three hundred thousand zebra and their attendant predators cross the Mara River and spread across the plains in a seemingly endless procession.
The country's tallest mountain, its snow capped peaks reaching 5,199 metres. Rich deciduous and bamboo forests cover the slopes, opening into high altitude moorland just below the glaciers and snowfields, and the forest shelters elephant, buffalo, several species of antelope and even lion.
This seasonal swamp is one of the finest places in the country for big game photography, with a vast population of wildlife. Its 3,810 square kilometres of striking alkaline pan and strange mirages all play out against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro's majestic snowscape.
Some 480 kilometres of uninterrupted white sand, fringed with palms and washed by the sparkling blue of the Indian Ocean. Kisite Marine Park, almost on the Tanzanian border, opens an intriguing underwater world, while Shanzu and Kikambala offer an idyllic resort stretch of sand and calm, bright sea.
Kenya's oldest living town carries a rich and colourful history as one of the original chain of Swahili settlements that stretched from Somalia to Mozambique, its appearance and character little changed over the centuries. The narrow winding streets admit only pedestrians and donkeys, past buildings dating to the 19th century and earlier, built from coral rag walls, wooden floors on mangrove poles, makuti roofs and intricately carved shutters.
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