#108 best destination in the world
Maasai Mara, Narok
- Large national game reserve, named in honor of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin
- Their description of the area when looked at from afar: “Mara” means “spotted” in the local Maasai language, due to the many short bushy trees which dot the landscape
- Maasai Mara is one of the most famous and important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, world-renowned for its exceptional populations of lion, African leopard, cheetah and African bush elephant
- Hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World
Mount Kenya
- Highest mountain in Kenya and the second highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro
- Elevation 17,057 ft
- Mount Kenya is the source of the name of the Republic of Kenya
- Mount Kenya is a stratovolcano created approximately 3 million years after the opening of the East African rift
- Before glaciation, it was 23,000 ft high
- It was covered by an ice cap for thousands of years, which melted and has resulted in very eroded slopes and numerous valleys radiating from the centre
- There are currently 11 small glaciers, which are shrinking rapidly, and will likely be gone forever by 2050
- The forested slopes are an important source of water for much of Kenya
Diani Beach, Kwale County
- The general area is known for its coral reefs, black-and-white colobus monkeys, and for the closely located Shimba Hills National Reserve, a wildlife reserve which looks out over the Indian Ocean
- Diani Beach has restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, and several shopping centers
- Diani Beach is also a popular kitesurfing, jet skiing, and snorkelling location
Amboseli National Park, Kajiado County

- National park in Kajiado County that has an ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border
- The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area, one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world with 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hamerkop and 47 raptor species
- The park protects two of the five main swamps, and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semiarid vegetation
Lake Nakuru, Rift Valley

- One of the Rift Valley lakes, it is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park
- The lake’s abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore
- Other birds also flourish in the area, as do warthogs, baboons and other large mammals
- Eastern black rhinos and southern white rhinos have also been introduced
- The lake’s level dropped dramatically in the early 1990s but has since largely recovered
- Between 2010-2020 Lake Nakuru increased in surface area, and 677 households, parts of Nakuru town and National Park areas had been flooded
- Lake Nakuru National Park was established in 1961, and started off small, only encompassing the famous lake and the surrounding mountainous vicinity, but has since been extended to include a large part of the savannahs
Nairobi National Park

- National park in Kenya that was established in 1946
- Herbivores gather in the park during the dry season
- Nairobi National Park is negatively affected by increasing human and livestock populations, changing land use and poaching of wildlife
- Despite its proximity to the city and its relative small size, it boasts a large and varied wildlife population, and is one of Kenya’s most successful rhinoceros sanctuaries
Tsavo East National Park, Taita-Taveta County

- One of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya
- Situated in a semi-arid area previously known as the Taru Desert it opened in 1948, and is located in the Taita-Taveta County
- Tsavo East National Park is providing undeveloped wilderness homes to vast numbers of animals
- Famous are the Tsavo lions, a population whose adult males often lack manes entirely