Kenya Game Parks

Aberdare National Park Samburu National Reserve & Buffalo Springs The park features parts of the Samburu National Reserve and Buffalo Springs started Aberdare Mountain Range, an area of life as one park but are now adjacent to each other. The natural beauty. It is full of rich Ewaso Nyiro River runs through both reserves and in vegetation, clear streams, waterfalls Shaba National Reserve parts acts as a border between them. Samburu is not as Situated very close to Samburu National and lakes, along with unique fauna well known as some of the other national parks in Kenya and flora, creating an ideal habitat for Reserve, Shaba has reserved its place in and therefore is less crowded. The dramatic and rugged the history of conservation as the area a wide variety of mammals and birds. landscape is home to the colorful Samburu people. Elephants and rhinos roam the park where Joy Adamson experimented with Game includes species rarely seen elsewhere, such as the release of hand-reared leopards. The and other residents include leopards, Grevy’s zebras and reticulated giraffes and the Somali spotted hyenas and bongos. nearby Ewaso Nyiro River supports a ostrich. variety of wildlife.

Mount Kenya National Park Mount Kenya, Kenya’s highest mountain, sits astride the equator with its snow-capped summit rising to nearly 5,200 Lake Nakuru meters. The vegetation National Park alters dramatically, from This fenced park provides bamboo jungle and sanctuary to one of the mountain forests to glaciers largest populations of rhinos and snowfields. The forests in Kenya, plus lions, are home to elephants, and Rothschild giraffes and prolific birdlife. leopards. Samburu & Shaba Buffalo Springs

Meru Mt Kenya Aberdares Nakuru Meru National Park Masai Mara National Close to the equator, Reserve northeast of Nairobi. The The most popular safari Lake Naivasha park is famous as the destination in Kenya, • Nairobi area where Joy Adamson the reserve is home Masai raised lion cub, Elsa and Q Q to countless species Mara orphaned cheetahs. The including the ‘big five’, permanent streams offer and stages the Great Tsavo an environment of tall Wildebeest Migration. East grasses and dense Further details about the swamps. This can make it Masai Mara can be found Amboseli challenging to spot on pages 74-75 wildlife, but a wide range Tsavo including elephants, hippos, lions, leopards, West cheetahs, reticulated Lake Naivasha giraffes and zebras reside Over 450 species of birds have been recorded in and around here. Q this freshwater lake, with the highest concentrations Q between October and March, when migrating birds from Mombasa • Europe are resident. The shores of the lake are fringed with papyrus and yellow-barked acacia tress. A range of plains game are often spotted. Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks Combined, these two parks form one of the world’s largest game sanctuaries. Tsavo East is famous for its Amboseli National Park large number of elephants and spectacular herds of A popular national park with a spectacular backdrop buffaloes that roam across the open savannah. Tsavo of the impressive Mount Kilimanjaro. Home to an West, in contrast, has very dramatic landscape with abundance of mammals and over 400 species of extinct volcanoes, rocky outcrops, mountains, river birds. The flat and dusty landscape provides good forests and plains. The ‘big five’ can be found along opportunities to see a large variety of wildlife with a range of antelope species. including buffaloes, lions, gazelles, cheetahs, wildebeest, zebras and large herds of elephants.

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