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Menengai Crater
With transport and 15 minutes to play with, you can be out of the grimy streets of Nakuru and standing on the rim of Menengai Crater, a 485m-high natural cauldron and local beauty spot. Outside of weekends, its a peaceful place that affords striking views down below onto a cushion
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Malindi Historic Circuit
National Museums of Kenya has smartly grouped the major cultural sites of Malindi under the one general ticket of this circuit.The most compelling attraction covered in the Historic Circuit is the House of Columns . The structure itself is a good example of traditional Swahili arch
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Galana River
Running through the heart of the park and marking the northernmost point in the park that most visitors are allowed to visit, the Galana River, which combines the waters of the Tsavo and Athi Rivers, cuts a green gash across the dusty plains. Surprisingly few visitors make it even
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Mt Kenya National Park
Africa’s second-highest mountain is also one of its most beautiful. Here, mere minutes from the equator, glaciers carve out the throne of Ngai, the old high god of the Kikuyu. To this day the tribe keeps its doors open to the face of the sacred mountain, and some still come to its
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Bullfighting Grounds
Bullfighting (between two bulls) is one of the more popular sports in western Kenya, and Khayega (6km south of Kakamega) has Saturday morning showdowns at the bullfighting ground. They start at 7am (the whole thing wraps up at around 8am) with a whole lot of horn blowing, drumming,
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Faza
The biggest settlement on the island has a chequered history. Faza was almost totally destroyed by Paté in the 13th century, then again by the Portuguese in 1586 or 1587 (accounts differ, but it is known that the Portuguese chopped off the local sheik’s head and preserved it in sal
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Mt Elgon National Park
Straddling the Ugandan border and peaking with Koitoboss (4187m), Kenya’s second-highest peak, and Uganda’s Wagagai (4321m), the slopes of Mt Elgon are a sight indeed - or at least they would be if they werent buried under a blanket of mist and drizzle most of the time.While theres
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Lake Circuit
The park’s relatively small size (180 sq km, depending on the reach of the lake) makes it easy to get around in a day. The forests anywhere in the park are good for leopards and rare tree-climbing lions imported from eastern Kenya. The park’s black and white rhinos (around 60 altog
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Tsavo West National Park
Welcome to the wilderness. Tsavo West is one of Kenya’s larger national parks (9065 sq km), covering a huge variety of landscapes from swamps, natural springs and rocky peaks to extinct volcanic cones, rolling plains and sharp outcrops dusted with greenery. Wildlife is here in abun
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Tsavo East National Park
Kenya’s largest national park, Tsavo East National Park has an undeniable wild and primordial charm and is a terrific wildlife-watching destination. Although one of Kenya’s largest rivers flows through the middle of the park and the contrast between the permanent greenery of the ri
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Sibiloi National Park
A Unesco World Heritage site, and probably Kenya’s most remote national park, Sibiloi is located up the eastern shore of Lake Turkana and covers 1570 sq km. It was here that Dr Richard Leakey discovered the skull of a Homo habilis believed to be 2.5 million years old, and where oth
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Egerton Castle
If you want to muse on lost love and where it goes, visit Egerton Castle on the outskirts of Njoro. A replica of Tatton Hall in England, the castle was constructed between 1938 and 1954 by Lord Maurice Egerton – who also set up the agricultural training college that would later bec
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Aberdare National Park
While there’s plenty of reason to wax rhapsodic over herds of wildlife thundering over an open African horizon, there’s also something to be said for the soil-your-pants shock of seeing an elephant thunder out of bush that was, minutes before, just plants. And that’s why people lov
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Siyu & Shanga
It’s hard to believe today that Siyu was once the major city of the Lamu archipelago, with 30,000 inhabitants and several major universities. The only remnant of this glory is an enormous fort , which, given its emergence from the abandoned mangrove and coconut forest, is quite dra
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Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
While the massive 222-sq-km conservancy, just south of Isiolo, could boast about their luxury lodges, stunning scenery, astounding wildlife activities and having hosted Prince William, they’d rather talk about their community and conservation projects. Founded in 1995, LWC is a non
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Jumba la Mtwana
These Swahili ruins, just north of Mtwapa Creek, have as much archaeological grandeur as the more famous Gede Ruins. Jumba la Mtwana means ‘Big House of Slaves’ and locals believe the town was once an important slave port. Notice the Arabic inscription on the stela adjacent to the
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Mbulia Conservancy
Welcome to one of the most exciting things to happen in the Tsavo area for years. The 12,000-acre Mbulia Conservancy, which borders the extreme southeastern corner of Tsavo West National Park, close to the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway, inhabits what was, until recently, a major hideout
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Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Ol Pejeta Conservancy was once one of the largest cattle ranches in Kenya, but is now a 90,000-acre, privately owned wildlife reserve. It markets itself as the closest place to Nairobi where you can see the BIg Five and possesses a full palette of African plains wildlife, including
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Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site
This archaeological site, 4km outside Nakuru, is a great spot for a peaceful amble away from the rhinos and tourists. It contains a museum and the remains of three settlements excavated between 1937 and the late 1980s, the oldest being possibly 3000 years old, the most recent 200 t
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Fort Jesus
Fort Jesus, a Unesco World Heritage treasure, is Mombasa’s most visited site. The metre-thick walls, frescoed interiors, traces of European graffiti, Arabic inscriptions and Swahili embellishment aren’t just evocative, they’re a record of the history of Mombasa and the coast writ i
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