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* TSAVO NATIONAL PARK

Tsavo is Kenya's largest national park and one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in the world.The twin Tsavo West and East national parks covers an area of 21,754 sq km larger than Wales or Jamaica. As unique in character and size, Tsavo is an outstnding example of Africa constantly reshapes itself in response to animal and climatic changes.Its the most facsinating nature sanctuary on the African continent. Abundantly species of mammals roams here due to favour of more than thousands plant species.

* TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK

Its the larger of the two parks, covering nearly 12,000 sq km of harsh, rugged terrain. Its vast expanses of thornbrush scrubland are cut through by the impressive spine of the Yatta Plateau at about 290km long, its the world's longest lava flow (also the oldest fossilized lava flow on Earth). Rugged, untamed, and often harsh, Tsavo East's vast, unpredictable expanses are stomping ground for large herds of fairly aggressive elephants - there are more here, in fact, than in Tsavo West, as well as a tiny population of one of the world's rarest antelopes- the hirola, or Hunter's hartebeest. Other uncommon species regularly spotted here include lesser kudu, gerenuk, fringed-eared oryx, and Peter's gazelle. The park also supports Africa's largest unfenced black rhino population.

* TSAVO WEST NATIONAL PARK

Its more visited than Tsavo East. Its a better developed park with well signposted roads and a more closely monitored infrastructure. It aslo has a more varied topography and a greater diversity of habitats; it's notably hillier and shot through with impressive volcanic lava flows and large tracts of thick woodland. There is also more visual variety here, not to mention possible glimpses of Mount Kilimanjaro and epic runaway vistas from specials point such as Poachers Lookout- a fun spot for sundowners accompanied by majestic views of the surrounding landscape. The permanent Tsavo river runs through the northern part of the park, fringed by riverine accacia woodland.

Bird life is varied and exciting. Crocodiles are found in pools, the Mzima Springs, which is a fount of cool, clear water.The equitorial sun melts the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. The water filters down thousands of metres through the mountain's volcanic strata to join up with underground rivers flowing from the nearby Chyulu Hills. These bursts out as Mzima Springs at a peak rate of almost 500 million litres........Read Itineraries Here.....



MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Situated in the South West of Kenya along its boarder with Tanzania, the Masai Mara National Reserve consists of 1,510 sq. km. Its where the people (Masai people) have managed to sustain their culture despite the encroaching modernity. They are among Africa's most celebrated, fabled, romanticised tribes,You'll see young Masai boys herding hundreds of cattle or shepherding goats across the land, or come across the legendary Maasai warriors (morani) dressed in their bright red shukas and long lasting sandals made from recycled rubbber tires who have long stirred the imagination of visitors to East Africa. These men will take you for nature walks in this park during your safari.

Masai Mara is a priority destination for observing animated and furious interaction between predators and their prey. There is always plenty of mellower hippo and croc action down at the river. Herds of elephants and sullen-faced buffalos are seeing cruising the wilderness giving you the beautiful sight. And backing up all this animal magic is an enduring, everenchanting landscape. With its vast acacia-dotted plains cut by the life giving waters of the mara rivers. Mara's classic vistas are the stuff that Out of Africa dreams are made of......Read Itineraries Here....

* AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

Amboseli National park is the second most famous wildlife preserves in Kenya after Masai Mara. Comprising different ecosystems ranging from sulfur-rich springs, swamps,and marshes to lava-rock scrubland, open plains, acacia woodland, and a shallow lake that spends most of its life as a dry salt pan. Amboseli which means "Salty Dust" is a mercurial environment which haibitats all the big five and many small animals. Though dry and dusty, its otherwise strewn with immense lava rocks spewed up by Mount Kilimanjaro during its final eruption, and elsewhere around is perenial swamps and springs fed by life-saving melt water runoff from Mount Kilimanjaro. Other bodies of water such as vast, alluvial, dried up bed of Lake Amboseli appear and disappear. This lake favours the concentraion of wildlife such as species of birds, zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, Masai giraffes, lions, and cheetahs. Also elephants the pride of Amboseli are in plenty which are believed to be most studied and understood elephants in Africa with Mount Kilimanjaro at the backdrop.

* LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

Lake Nakuru is a shallow alkaline lake which is world famous for its hordes of lesser and greater flamingos and rhinos. Lake Nakuru National Park, small and beautiful is one of Kenya's most accessible and popular state run parks. At an altitude of between 1,753, the park is bordered to the west by one salt dome hill. There is a crater in the north, open plains to the south and large euphorbia forest below Sarova Lion Hill Lodge. Wooded cliffs and shores surround swamp-fringed water, supporting a large waterbuck population and many warthogs. Most of the parkland is covered with light acacia forest containing well marked tracks to a variety of hides and lookouts. The park is one of the few national parks established specifically to protect birds. In recent years, it has also become a sanctuary for a group of Rothschild's giraffe and the endagered black rhino. You may also be lucky enough to come across the largest of African snakes, the python, which like the boa, squeezes it svictims to death.



LAKE NAIVASHA ( Hell's Gate National Park )

Lake Naivasha is a fresh water lake in Kenya lying north West of Nairobi, and outside the town of Naivasha. It's part of the Great Rift Valley. Naivasha is a market town in Rift Valley Province, It is located on the shore of Lake Naivasha and along the Nairobi - Nakuru highway and Uganda Railway.

Lake Naivasha is a popular tourist destination. Hell's Gate National Park is one of the attractions and its the only park in Kenya where one can hike through the park and walk among the zebra, impala, gazelle and other plains. If you are exceedingly lucky, you can even spot Rupell's griffons or lamergeyer vultures amid the park's balsatic cliffs. Its also possible to bike through the park and red cliffs of Njorowa gorge are good for climbing tours. There is also Mount Longonot National Park centered on a mighty dormant volcano that takes its name from the masai word for mountain of many spurs. The sides of the volcano feature numerous v-shaped valleys formed by the erodion of the soft volcanic soil. You can ascend to the crater rim in about an hour with stunning vistas in every direction and you'll definately be able to know why it's such a popular hiking destination.

* ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK

Famous as the place where in 1952, Elizabeth II learned that she had inherited the English throne, Aberdare National Park takes its name from magnificient volcanic mountain range that forms part of the eastern wall of the Rift Valley. The Aberdare Mountains make up the backbone of the park and run roughly 100km between Nairobi and the famous Thomson's Falls.

Topographically diverse, the park is cut through with deep ravines that make for splendid vistas wide valleys and vast slopes are carpeted by extremely dense forest and watered by icy, crystal-clear streams where trout fishing is possible. The park has a reputation for its famous Treetops hotel, where Elizabeth was staying when she became queen. Today there are two such tree hotels, where guests rind themselves ensconced in what feel like specially built gigantic viewing capsules, their sights poised on an endless array of animals that turn up-like kids in a candy store to gorge on the mineral-rich salt licks that are constantly topped up by the hotels. For many, staying up all night and watching the nocturnal action from viewing areas of these hotels is a Kenya highlight, for others it's like being on the wrong side of the cageat a zoo. Besides seeing large herds of African elepahnt and buffalo at close range, you might just glimpsi one or two of the park's rare and endagered species, including black rhino, giant forest hog and wild dogs.

The park is basically divided up into two zones. The western part is dense forest and mostly interesting for the beauty of its terrain. Here is where the hikers and climbers may set out on foot accompanied by an armed ranger. Most visitors stick to the developed salient region which is Eastern part where the two lodges, Treetops Lodge and the Ark Lodge are located and where there's far greater opportunity to spot animals.

* MOUNT KENYA NATIONAL PARK

Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano know to the Kikuyu peole as Kirinyaga, the palce of light. when through its veil of mistlike clouds you first see the imposing mountain silhouted against the African sky. The venerated mountain rises majestically from a vast, broad base 80km in diameter. From far, it's distinguished by it's rugged glacier-clad twin peaks, Batian ( 5,199m ) and Nelion (not far behind, at 5,188m). The truth is that Africa's second highest mountain is worthy of up-close exploration. Its Afro-alpine moorlands and bamboo forests are shot through with glacial moraines and ice-blue tarns, and it slopes diverse ecosystems support a rich variety of wildlife, not to mention some of the most unusual plant life you've ever laid eyes on. The mountain maybe Kenya's spiritual and physical heartland, but it possess good looks and fascinating details to match.

Below this imposing rocky peaks, the lushly covered slopes are inhabited by bands of cheeky sykesm and colobus monkeys, and it's common to spot elephants, rhinos, and buffalos while out on a hike more than good reason to take ample precautions and a knowlegeable mountain guide when trekking this formidable mount Kenya.

* SAMBURU GAME RESERVE

Samburu Game Reserve is located in Northern Kenya. Bare granite inselbergs rise from the semi-desert like marooned tombstones in endless seas of bush and scrub. Volcanic mountains add drama to the skyline, and through the heart of it all runs the Ewaso Nyiro, a ribbon of life graced by tall doum palms and shade giving acacias. Here in addition of the more formidable predators, live the beautiful dry country animals of Northern Kenya that make up the Samburu special five. Gerenuk, oryz, reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, and the endagered Grevy's zebra characterized by its big round ears and designer pinstripe coat. As a wildlife preserve, it doesn't dissapoint sightsings of the Big FIve ( Elephant,lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino. Cheetah sightings are particulary good, too, and do look out for those fabulously unwieldy kori bustards (the largest flying birds on Earth).

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TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

It's 118 km South West of Arusha. Named after the life-giving river that flows its length, 2,642sq km, Tarangie National park is Tanzania's fifth largest park. Tarangire shares some topographical similarities with Serengeti National Park, the most arresting being the short grass plains you find mostly in the north, their expanses broken only by the shapely umbrella acacia tree. A striking contrast to these golden plains, and not found in the Serengeti National Park, are Tarangire's lush green swamps where elephants and thigh high in juicy grasses that act as a magnet for herds of buffallo, wildebeest, and zebra, with predators usually in close attendance. The further south you travel, the landscape becomes more densely vegetated and game sightings drop accordingly, though there are areas of open savannah, and the tracks are mercifully free of day-trippers.

Its a beautiful park, typified by century old baobabs that stand sentinel above the open grass plains and riverbeds, and varied habitats that play home to mammal species, huge numbers of which concentrate around the permanently flowing waters of the Tarangire National Park, particularly during the dry season. Tarangire National Park is also an ornithologists haven, boasting a greater variety of birds. Tarangire National Park is worthwhile addition to any Northern Circuit itinerary, but during the driest months (Sep and Oct) when the Serengeti herds have usually migrated north into Kenya's Masai Mara and animals from throughout the Tarangire ecosystem slake their thirst in the waters of the Tarangire river. .........Read Itineraries Here.....

* LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

Curling along the western shores of a shallow soda lake, the emergence of the Gregory Escarpment a sheer (1,640 ft) drop, making this the most impressive wall in the Rift Valey System. Lake Manyara lies in a closed basin with no outlet. Fed by waters that percolate through the volcanic ash and lava of the Ngorongoro highlands before seeping and spilling from the ever-eroding walls of the Rift Valley, the lake is highly alkaline, its chemical salts further distilled by the high rate of evaporation hence the tell-tale crusty white soda deposits that line the lake's shores during the dry season.

Despite the fact that the lake cover two-thirds of the park, the slim wedge of land between the shore and the baobas studdede escarpment wall offers a remarkably varied ecosystem. Visitors enter the lush groundwater forest in the north, crossing rivers and pools to traverse stretches of acacia woodland and bushland, and finally emerge to sweeping views of floodplain grasslands, its thin strips of yellow and green blending into saoring skyline.

Along the way, you are sure to encounter elephants. Another large mammal species you are assured of seeing are hippos, lazing in and around the aptly named Hippo Pool. In the dry season, the park's most prolific herbivores wildebeests, zebra, and buffalo are spotted grazing on tender new grass shoots on the floodplains.

Lake Manyara is also known for its prolific butterflies that float like confertti in the groundwater forest or acacia woodland, and also its famous tree climbing lions, a taught behavior, virtually unique to the lions of Lake Manyara and this makes the reason why lake manyara is considered important to stop on the Tanzania Northern Circuit itinerary.

* NGORONGORO CONSERVATION CRATER

Ngorongoro crater is designed as a multiple land use area. It stretches from the precipitous barrier that is the Great Rift Valley wall. It's a vast and untouched region, much of it appearing harsh and barren, yet what makes Ngorongoro Conservation Area so unique is that it is a refuge for both animal and man. Ngorongoro is the only conservation area in Africa to provide full protection status for resident wildlife as well as the interests of its indigenous pastoralist who live as traditionally as ever, free to raom anywhere in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (except crater) the herding their cattle, donkeys, goats and sheep.

Ngorongoro Crater is not only the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera, but it's also home to one of the densest wildlife populations on Earth. One is struck by the sheer size and symmetry and also by the visible ecosystems that sustain its incredibly varied wildlife.

From the dark montane forests that clad the southern crater walls to the open yelow grassland and acacia thickets in the basin, intersected by veins of freshwater streams, and the tell- tale white crust of its very own salt lake, Ngorongoro's great caldera falls into the archetypal realm of an isolated Lost World, only without the dinosaurs. Swamps and forests are home to hippos, elephants, waterbucks, baboons, and vervet monkeys.

* SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

The Serengeti National Park is the greatest National Park on the continent. Its not just the wildlife, though the sight of more than two million animals moving across the plains is regularly cited as the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth. The Serengeti National park is almost the size of Hawaii and the greater ecosystem an area encompassing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It was the Masai who called it Siringitu (The Place Where The Land Moved on Forever), and its precisely this sense of vastness that will blow you away. Serengeti National Park is known world wide for it's annual migration of the wildbeest and Zebras. The migration is central to the Serengeti's appeal. Its virtually continual movements of herds of wildebeests and zebras, thomson gazelles and thousands elands all following a millennia old instinct to seek new pasture as life sustaining rains that come twice a year sweep across the Serengeti National Park. Apart from migrating animals, the park sustains stable populations of many other species of wildlife, and you will certainly encounter giraffe, warthog, olive baboon, buffalos as well as elephants. More important, for most, at least is the larger population of predators. An estimated 2,000 lions alone prowl within the park, many of them teritorial and well habituated to human presence....Read Itineraries Here.....

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KILIMANJARO CLIMBING IN TANZANIA

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Mt. Kilimanjaro Climbing in Tanzania as Africa’s highest Mountain at an attitude of 5896 m no climbing experience is required but you should be in good physical condition and consider equipping yourself with the necessary climbing gears, we recommend that climbers be "open minded" and a well-developed sense of humor for us to maintain our high standards of operation. We limit our climb to 10 people per group.. .Read Climbing Itineraries Here.....

















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