Land of Lava, Springs & Man-Eaters

Tsavo West National Park covers approximately 30 per cent of Kenya’s park area, and contains a diversity of habitats, wildlife and a mountainous scenic landscape. The park is a vast expanse of savanna stretching from Mtito Andei, along the Mombasa-Nairobi road and south to the Tanzanian border.

Samburu National Reserve is one of the lesser-known national parks, but is nevertheless teeming with life. Situated alongside the Ewaso Nyiro River, there is plenty to attract wildlife from the surrounding savannah plains. The reserves within the ecological zone V – which is classified as arid and semi arid with a moisture index of 42 to 57, which indicates that evapo-transpiration is greater than available moisture.

The World’s Only Wildlife Capital

Nairobi National Park is unique by being the only protected area in the world with a variety of animals and birds close to a capital city. The park is a principal attraction for visitors to Nairobi.

Namesake of Nation

Mount Kenya is an imposing extinct volcano dominating the landscape of the Kenyan Highlands. The mountain has two main peaks – Batian (5,200 metres) and Nelion (5,188 metres). The mountains slopes are cloaked  in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and snow.

Complete Wilderness

Meru is a savanna National Park, 35 km east of Maua town in the North Eastern lowlands below the Nyambeni Hills. Meru National Park is a former home of Joy and George Adamson and Elsa the Lioness. The park is part of a complex of protected areas along the Tana river that includes the adjacent Bisanadi and Mwingi National Park Reserves, Kora National Park and Rahole National Reserve.