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KENYA - LAND OF PLENTY

This is the country where the traditional African safari began. The magnificence and diversity of the Kenyan wildlife and landscape is unsurpassed; Kenya offers a wide variety of attractions, from vast plains teeming with game to cultural experiences and miles and miles of wonderful beaches making it one of Africa's leading safari and holiday destinations.
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Staying in luxury accommodation you can explore Kenya's Masai Mara, Amboseli and Tsavo National Parks with highly knowledgeable guides, who, despite the popularity of these areas, will make your safari a very private affair. Luxury mobile and horseback safaris are also an option where every comfort is catered for, and a holiday of a lifetime beckons.

Kenya's coast offers some of the best beaches in the world with superb accommodation, catering for all tastes.

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Our selected regions in Kenya...

pack/unpack me?Amboseli - Chyulu Hills
Amboseli is famous for its big game. Elephants, lions and cheetahs are the main attractions.
pack/unpack me?Coast
The Kenyan coast is lined with pristine white and sandy beaches fringing the warm inviting waters of the Indian Ocean. Here the wilderness meets the sea, and the ocean itself holds a world of spectacular coral reefs teeming with life and colour.
pack/unpack me?Meru National Park
Meru National Park is wild and beautiful. Straddling the equator and bisected by thirteen rivers and numerous mountain-fed streams, it is an especially beautiful area of Kenya.
pack/unpack me?Mt Kenya - Laikipia - Mathews Range
This area is an area unknown to package tourists because all the accommodation is on private land where you are treated more like a house guest than a tourist.
pack/unpack me?Nairobi
Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, is a cosmopolitan and lively city, the largest between Johannesburg and Cairo.
pack/unpack me?Rift Valley - Lake Victoria
The second largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Victoria geographically dominates the area with its 70,000 sq km surface. Despite its huge size, the murky lake is not that deep - only 100 metres at its deepest.
pack/unpack me?Samburu And Shaba
This area offers unique vistas of rounded, rugged hills and undulating plains.
pack/unpack me?The Masai Mara
The Masai Mara National Reserve is the most famous and most visited reserve in Kenya and offers a breathtaking and extraordinary density of animals. An impressive feature is the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle from the plains of the Serengeti that cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach the Mara's lush grassland from late June.
pack/unpack me?Tsavo National Park
At just over 21,000km sq, Tsavo is the largest national park in Kenya and one of the largest in the world. Because of its size the park was split into 2, Tsavo West and Tsavo East, for easy administration.


Best time for visiting Kenya ...

bush: best time: July - March / good time: June coast: best time: September - March / Good time: July - August

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