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Paté Town
Paté town, on the west side of the island, is a functioning village carved out of orange and brown coral ragstone. The Nabahani ruins , which are slowly vanishing under a riot of tropical vegetation and banana plantations, are just outside town. They’ve never been seriously excavat
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Railway Museum
The main collection here is housed in an old railway building and consists of relics from the East African Railway. There are train and ship models, photographs, tableware, and oddities from the history of the railway, such as the engine seat that allowed visiting dignitaries like
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Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary
At the base of Ngulia Hills, this 90-sq-km area is surrounded by a 1m-high electric fence, and provides a measure of security for, at last count, 78 of the parks highly endangered black rhinos. There are driving tracks and waterholes within the enclosed area, but the rhinos are mai
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Hell’s Gate Gorge
The gorge that runs through the heart of the park is a wide, deep valley hemmed in by sheer, rusty-hued rock walls. Marking its eastern entrance is Fischer’s Tower, a 25m-high volcanic column named after Gustav Fischer, a German explorer who reached the gorge in 1882. Commissioned
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Mkwiro Village
Mkwiro is a small village on the unvisited eastern end of Wasini Island. There are few facilities here and there’s not a lot to do, but the gorgeous hour-long walk from Wasini village, through woodlands, past tiny hamlets and along the edge of mangrove forests, is more than reason
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Amboseli National Park
Amboseli belongs in the elite of Kenya’s national parks, and it’s easy to see why. Its signature attraction is the sight of hundreds of big-tusked elephants set against the backdrop of Africa’s best views of Mt Kilimanjaro (5895m). Africa’s highest peak broods over the southern bou
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Chyulu Hills National Park
One of Kenya’s least-visited parks, Chyulu Hills National Park are an oasis of green rising above the arid plains of southern Kenya. The park, just northwest of Tsavo West National Park, is dominated by extinct volcanoes that rank among the world’s youngest range of mountains – som
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Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park
This tiny park covers little more than 20 sq km and is built around the summit and slopes of Ol Donyo Sabuk (2146m), known by the Kikuyu as Kilimambongo (Buffalo Mountain). The name fits, as buffaloes are one of the few animals that you may actually encounter here, aside from prima
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Mnarani
The partly excavated, atmospheric and deliciously peaceful ruins of the Swahili city of Mnarani are high on a bluff just west of the old ferry landing stage on the southern bank of Kilifi Creek. The site was occupied from the end of the 14th century to around the first half of the
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Borana Conservancy
One of the longest-standing conservancies in the area, the Borana cattle ranch (now the Borana Conservancy), owned by the Dyer family for three generations, turned its focus onto wildlife and community projects in 1992. In the past couple of years this beautiful 35,000-acre conserv
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Mzima Springs
Mzima Springs is an oasis of green in the west of the park and produces an incredible 250 million litres of fresh water a day. The springs, whose source rises in the Chyulu Hills, provides the bulk of Mombasa’s fresh water. A walking trail leads along the shoreline. The drought in
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Elephant Research Camp
The elephants of Amboseli are among the most studied in the world, thanks largely to the work of Dr Cynthia Moss, whose books include The Amboseli Elephants and Elephant Memories; she was also behind the famous documentary DVD Echo of the Elephants . The research camp remains in op
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Meru National Park
Welcome to one of Kenyas most underrated parks. Marred by serious poaching in the 1980s and the subsequent murder of George Adamson (of Born Free fame) in 1989, Meru National Park fell off the tourist map and has never quite managed to struggle back on. This is a pity, because it h
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Elkony Caves
Four main lava tubes (caves) are open to visitors: Kitum , Chepnyalil , Mackingeny and Rongai .While rarely seen, elephants are known to ‘mine’ for salt from the walls of the caves. Kitum holds your best hope of glimpsing them, but sadly the number of these saline-loving creatures
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Central Island National Park
Bursting from the depths of Lake Turkana, and home to thousands of living dinosaurs, is the Jurassic world of Central Island volcano, last seen belching molten sulphur and steam just over three decades ago. Its one of the most otherworldly places in Kenya. Quiet today, its stormy v
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Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site
South of Ruma National Park, this is one of East Africa’s most important archaeological sites. It holds the remains of a dry-stone enclosure, 150m in diameter and containing another five smaller enclosures, thought to date back as far as the 15th century. Getting to Thimlich is a p
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West Gate Community Conservancy
West of Samburu National Reserve is the 40,000-hectare West Gate Community Conservancy. The thorny acacia scrub that makes up much of the conservancy is home to several thousand Samburu people and a healthy, and growing, population of large mammals, including up to 500 Grevys zebra
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Tom Mboya’s Mausoleum
A child of Rusinga and a former sanitary inspector in Nairobi, Mboya was one of the few Luo people to achieve any kind of political success. He held a huge amount of influence as Jomo Kenyatta’s right-hand man and was widely tipped to become Kenya’s second president before he was a
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Mt Kulal
Mt Kulal (2293m) dominates Lake Turkana’s eastern horizon and its forested volcanic flanks offer some serious hiking possibilities. This fertile lost world in the middle of the desert is home to some unique creatures, including the Mt Kulal chameleon, a beautiful lizard first recor
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Masai Mara National Reserve
The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve needs little in the way of introduction; its tawny, wildlife-stuffed savannahs are familiar to everyone who owns a TV set and the scene for umpteen documentaries and films.Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordi
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