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Covering an area of 582,640 km², Kenya has a population of almost 30 million inhabitants
and its capital is Nairobi. Kenya is officially a republic. This East African country, bathing
by the Indian Ocean, is bordered to the north by Sudan and Ethiopia, to the east by
Somalia, to the south by Tanzania and to the west by Uganda.

Kenya has more than 400km of coast lined with islands (Lamu), separated from the
Indian Ocean by coral reefs. There are two main rivers, the Tana and the Galana.
The country is in fact a wide arid or semi-arid plateau, that covers 4/5ths of Kenya.
The highest summit is Mount Kenya which reaches 5199m at its peak. Further west
the huge depression of the Rift Valley is marked by a succession of steep cliffs.

Historical outline.

1498: arrival of the first Europeans with the Portuguese sailor Vasco de Gama.
1888: English settlement.
1895: protectorate then British colony from 1920 .
1925: Jomo Kenyatta establishes a party in favour of independence.
1952-1956: Mau Mau revolt; harsh British suppression and arrest of Kenyatta who
is freed in 1961. . 1961: autonomy.
1963: independence of the country as part of the Commonwealth.
1964: Kenyatta is President until his death in 1978.
1992-1996: ethnic troubles that will soon lead to the " closure " of some western
regions.
1998: Anti-American terrorist attack in Nairobi.

Kenya won its independence in 1956, after the end of the Mau-Mau's terrible struggle
the parti that rose up against the government established by the English. Elections
took place in 1957. A new constitution was drawn up, with strict monitoring
by the British Government. Official positions were split according to race.

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Drive from Nairobi via the Maasai town of Ewaso Ngiro for lunch and colourful
market visit. Then into the bush to a small Maasai homestead (boma) for insights
into their fascinating culture and way of life. Masai Mara National Reserve
Wildlife Amboseli National Park - Wildlife Samburu National Reserve - Wildlife
Tsavo National Park - Wildlife Aberdare National Park - Wildlife Mount Kenya
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Another game drive in the Mara. This is where you can see elephant, buffalo
lion, cheetah, leopard, zebra, giraffe, hippo, crocodile and a whole ark-full
of other animals. From July to September, the Mara is home to the great
wildebeest migration

The largest national park in Kenya is Tsavo; it is divided in to Tsavo East
and West. Each contains typical wildlife animals of the Kenya. In central
Kenya lies the Aberdares National Park, which contains the famous known
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even a more than week depending on the customer s need, and budget.

Naivasha is a vast freshwater lake, famed for its bird life particularly fish eagles
love-birds and pelicans. There are also many hippos and we take a morning boat
trip to see some of them. Then on to Lake Nakuru, a soda lake and home to
millions of pink flamingos. Afternoon game drive here with an excellent
chance of seeing the rare rhino. Another early morning game drive in the
park then up the Rift Valley escarpment for lunch at Thompson's Falls.
Then on to our hotel base for two days on the forested slopes of Mt Kenya.

The guests are accommodated in luxury game lodges, and tented camps. Some
of them have watchtowers where some of the wildlife can even be viewed
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This gives you a feeling of enormous space with its exotic tropical gardens
giant baobab trees, and a series of interconnecting water holes, fish
filled rivers and streams that overlook the national parks savannah plains
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