Kenya Sights

Kenya By the sights and the capital of Kenya - Nairobi include Clock Tower in the city center, modern business center of the city, Parliament House, the mausoleum of the first president of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978 gg.), National Archives, the Indian neighborhood with dozens of magnificent Hindu temples, many mosques, Orthodox Coptic Church of St. Mark, a Sikh temple, Railway Museum and National Museum with magnificent anthropological exhibition, "Snake Park, which serves traditional cuisine, as well as the nearby Center Giraffe Langat, hills Ngongi and National Park, Nairobi.

Mombasa travelers interested in the house of the Old City in Arabic style, the Portuguese fortress of Fort Jesus (XVI cent.), The summer residence of President of Kenya, as well as an oasis of Mzima Springs. The modern sea port in Mombasa - the second largest African port after Cape Town. Traditional beach holiday just an hour flight from Nairobi. Oriental flavor of the ancient Arabian port city with excellent hotels, luxurious soft white sand beaches (the best in the world), restaurants, bars, night fun.

Among the natural attractions of the most outstanding are 62 national parks with a fantastic world of wildlife. Through the whole country extends a miracle of nature - the Great African fault - traces of ancient cataclysms shook the continent in prehistoric times. But all the luxurious beauty of African landscapes give way before the main attraction of Kenya - wildlife.

No less interesting places are the canyon Ngulia, Mzima springs and the Tsavo River, on whose shores have found shelter huge flocks of birds, herds of antelope, buffalo and other animals. Visit the park allows you to see at once almost all the most important wildlife sites in East Africa.

Nairobi National Park. Located 10 kilometers from the city center, and even at a short distance from the city you already see the lions and stroll a picture of the rhinoceros.

National Park Masai Mara. Located on the south - west of the country at an altitude of 1650 m above sea level at 275 km west of Nairobi, the road to the park passes through Maasai land. In the Masai Mara you can see lions, leopards and other predators, for which there nebyatnaya hunting territory, rich gazelles, buffaloes, zebras. In rulu Mara live hippos and crocodiles.
Lake Nakuru National Park. Located in 156 km from Nairobi, in the Great African Rift Valley. Lake Nakuru resembles a huge exhibition of birds - more than a million rozrvyh flamingos flock to the lake to try the fish special quality. At the lake can be reached several ways: one of them passes through the village Nukuru, which takes 4 - place in Kenya's population and is the center of the national economy.

Lake Naivasha. Beautiful freshwater lake covers an area of 170 square. km and is surrounded by mountains, extinct volcanoes, which are home to more than 450 species of birds.

Amboseli National Park. Stretches from the foot of Africa's highest mountain Kilimanjaro (5895 m) to the border with Tanzania. Permanently snow-capped mountains visible from any part of the park Amboseli.

Mountain - Volcano Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro - the peak of the mysterious African continent, is located on the territory of Tanzania. This huge volcano characteristic shape and three distinct peaks. On the northern and southern slopes of the peaks of Kibo are famous glaciers - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". There you can see ice cascades terraces with huge pillars. This is one of the places on earth where most pronounced, there is global warming of the atmosphere.

Mount Kenya. Located in the Samburu National Park. This park lies just 150 km from Nairobi. Those who reaches the summit of Mount Kenya, can see elephants, buffaloes, leopards, lions and rhinos, and antelopes and zebras. Here is the most beautiful and respectable manor - club "Mount Kenya Safari Club", in which a resting place for many famous and wealthy Europeans.

National Park Samburu and Shaba park. The name of this park comes from the eponymous tribe of shepherds. The park is located to the north of the mountains along the river Niambeni Ivasi Ngor. It consists of a vast savannah, home to thousands of different species of animals such as elephants, leopards, buffalo, rhino, zebra, reticulated giraffe, antelope Gerenuk, Somali ostrich, and Grevy zebra. Samburu National Park is a haven for many birds: eagles, swallows, hawks, jays, as well as you can see the cormorant, African vulture - Fisherman and white pelican. The river can be seen lying lazily in the sun crocodiles and hippos bathing. Thousands of flamingos form a pink ribbon napreryvnuyu on the shores of Lake Nakuru

Tsavo National Park. The huge territory of this national park area of 20000 sq km lies between the mountains of Mombasa and Gayrobi, and is a great place to stop before you go on vacation on the coast. Here you can see the overgrown baobabs, as well as many zontoobraznyh trees and brightly colored acacias. Will also be interesting to visit the sources MZIMA with crystal clear water. These sources - a real paradise for hippos. Channel constantly replenishing the water of small ponds where the animals usually come to drink. All this can be seen from the special booths, stylized as a special boat, immersed in a lake with reptiles. Tsavo National Park is famous for its extraordinary population as "red" elephants (in the eastern part of the park), the western part of the park inhabited by gazelles, zebras, monkeys, flamingos, bustards.

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