Kenya

The country is named after Mount Kenya, the country's highest peak. The name means "mountain of light " in local languages .

It is an east African country, which borders Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west and Sudan to the northwest, the Indian Ocean running along the southeast. The capital is Nairobi.

Some fossils found in eastern Africa suggest that proto-humans roamed the area oftoday's Kenya over twenty million years ago. Recent findings in the vicinity of LakeTurkana indicate that hominids such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived in theterritory more than 2.6 million years ago.

Nakuru lake, National Park

It was declared national park in 1968

It was build to protect the flamingo flocks

This park is important too for the black and withe rhynos, that were in extintion danger.

Along the laje you can find zebras and deers too

Sometimes you can see more than one million of pink flamingos!

Tsavo National park

This park is divided in two zones, the east and west.

Is the bigger hunting reserve in kenia, and one of the most large in the world, it's also the most popular destiny to the safaris arround africa.

It is know because the incredible concentration of lyons and elephants.

This park is bigger than Jamaica

It has mor than 60 mammal specias and 1000 plants.

The Kenia Mountain

Declared human heritage in 1997 by the Unesco

The kenia national park gives you one of the most incredible landscaping in all oriental africa.

In the mountain there is 12 permanent glaciers, and all of this are getting warm in the borders giving a flower covering.

It has incredible lakes, glaciers, mountain tops, natural sources of mineral water.

In the lower levels, there are dry forests and just a little bit higher you find the bamboo forests, and higher you will find dry zones where the elefants lives, the buffalo, the zebra and the orices.

In the hillsides you can see the black rhynos, the leopards, the hyena and the wild boar.

Typical food:

They use a lot of vegetables and meat with a hot sauce. The kenians try to prepare simple food using just a few sources.

National Drinkings

Kenya reed : a licour made of sugar reed

Kenya gold: Coffe licour

Tipes of accomodations:

A lot of saffaris gives you a camping service. Giving you vehicle, tends, guides and equipment too. The accomodation tipe depends of the safari that you contract. The most complete safaris gives you luxury nights in hotels and incredible tends, this ones are ubicated in special places, where the endemics animals lives. There are cabins along the park too, trying to give mor security to the travelers.