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Kazuri Beads & Pottery Centre
An interesting diversion in Karen, this craft centre was started up by an English expat in 1975 as a place where single mothers could learn a marketable skill and achieve self-sufficiency. From humble beginnings, the workforce has burgeoned to over 100. A free tour takes you into t
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Kimana Gate
If you’re taking the road that runs east across the park to the Kimana Gate, watch for giraffes in the acacia woodlands; this is the best place inside the park for giraffe-spotting. Here you may also find gerenuks, an unusual breed of gazelle that ‘browse’ by standing on their hind
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Shimba Hills National Reserve
This park is among the easiest to visit in Kenya, within spitting distance of Diani Beach and possible to explore on foot. Its gentle grassy hills are interspersed with patches of forest which together provide a home to elephants, leopards, warthogs, buffaloes, baboons, a variety o
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Shela Beach
Most people are here for the beach – a 12km-long sweep of sand where you’re guaranteed an isolated spot (at least if you’re prepared to walk some way) to catch some rays. But as locals say, Yana vuta kwa kasi – ‘Theres a violent current there’. And no lifeguards. Tourists drown ev
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Parliament House
If you fancy a look at how democracy works (or doesn’t) in Kenya, it’s possible to obtain a free permit for a seat in the public gallery at Parliament House when the parliament is in session; visit the gate office to obtain a visitor permit and remember that applause is strictly fo
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Mwea National Reserve
In contrast to the rich greens that characterise so much of the highlands, this reserve is set in a dry depression that is nonetheless beautiful in a stony-scarp, thorn-bush and aloe-field kind of way. Kamburu Dam, at the meeting point of the Tana and Thiba Rivers, forms the focus
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Kisumu Museum
Southwest of the town centre, this museum has three main sections. The first covers western Kenya’s three principal linguistic groups: Luo, Bantu and Kalenjin. The second attraction is a traditional Luo homestead depicting the fictitious life of Onyango as he undergoes the rite of
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Voi War Cemetery
On the north side of the road just before the turn-off to Voi Gate on the eastern outskirts of town, this well-tended cemetery contains 137 graves, including those of 70 South African, 44 British, 12 ‘Rhodesian’, nine East African and two Indian graves. The area around Tsavo, parti
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Olorgasailie Prehistoric Site
Travelling between Lake Magadi and Nairobi, take the turn-off for the famous Olorgasailie Prehistoric Site. Several important archaeological finds were made by the Leakeys in the 1940s at this site, 40km north of Magadi, including hundreds of hand axes and stone tools thought to ha
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Baden
Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout Association, spent his last three years at Paxtu cottage in the Outspan Hotel. The ultimate scoutmaster’s retirement was somewhat poetic: to ‘outspan’ is to unhook your oxen at the end of a long journey. And he clearly loved his final
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Donkey Sanctuary
A man without a donkey is a donkey, claims one Swahili proverb. Or, as the staff of this sanctuary might tell you, a man who doesn’t look after his donkey is a donkey. With around 3000 donkeys (and a couple of cars) active on Lamu, Equus asinus is the main form of transport here. T
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Taita Hills WWI Museum
Occupying a corner of the lobby in the Sarova Taita Hills Game Lodge, this engaging little open-sided museum tells the story of World War I as it played out in East Africa. There are artefacts found on the nearby former battlefields (from bullets made in 1912 to glass shards from b
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Marsabit National Park
This small park, nestled on Mt Marsabit’s upper slopes, is coated in thick forest and contains a wide variety of wildlife, including leopards, elephants (some with huge tusks) and buffaloes. The dense forest makes spotting wildlife very difficult, but fortunately help is at hand in
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Kenyatta Conference Centre
Towering over City Square on City Hall Way, Nairobi’s signature building was designed as a fusion of modern and traditional African styles, though the distinctive saucer tower looks a little dated next to some of the city’s newer and flashier glass edifices. Take the lift up to the
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Kakamega Forest Reserve
Kakamega Forest Reserve is the more degraded area of the forest, yet its the more popular area with tourists. The five-hour return hike to Lirhanda Hill for sunrise or sunset is highly recommended. An interesting short walk (2.6km) to a 35m-high watchtower affords views over the fo
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Gede Ruins
The Gede ruins are one of the principal historical monuments on the Kenyan coast. Hidden away in the forest, the ruins are a vast complex of houses, palaces and mosques, made all the more mysterious by the fact that there are no records of Gedes existence in any historical texts. E
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Treasures of Africa Museum
This private museum is the personal collection of Mr Wilson, a former colonial officer in Uganda and quite a character. Based mainly on his experiences with the Karamojong people of northern Uganda, Mr Wilson’s small museum illustrates his theory that a universal worldwide agricult
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Mugie Ranch
At the very western edge of the Laikipia plateau, the Mugie Ranch is a 200-sq-km working ranch and private game reserve, and is crawling with heavyweight animals – almost half of the ranch is given over to the 22,000-acre Mugie Sanctuary with big cats, elephants, Grevy’s zebras and
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Solio Game Reserve
This family-run, private 17,000-acre reserve , 22km north of Nyeri, is Kenyas oldest rhino sanctuary and an important breeding centre for black rhinos; many of the horned beasts you see wandering national parks were actually born here. The physical contours of the park, which run b
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Uhuru Park
An expanse of manicured green on the fringe of the CBD, this attractive city park is a popular respite from all the downtown noise and bustle. It owes its existence to Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner. In the late 1980s, she fought to save the park from the bulldo
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