Kenya · East Africa
Amboseli and the southern parks.
Amboseli is elephant country beneath Kilimanjaro, and gives the single most recognisable view in East Africa.
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The park is small and the game viewing is concentrated around its swamps, which makes it a two-night stop rather than a week. Its elephant families are among the most studied on the continent.
Tsavo East and Tsavo West, between Nairobi and the coast, are vast by comparison and far less visited — red-dust country that suits a traveller who has already done the classics.
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Elsewhere in Kenya
- The Masai MaraThe Mara is Kenya's flagship reserve and the northern extension of the Serengeti ecosystem, which is why the migration reaches it.
- Laikipia and the northern conservanciesLaikipia is a plateau of private and community conservancies north of Mount Kenya, and the centre of Kenyan rhino conservation.
- The Kenyan coastThe coast is Swahili rather than safari — a distinct culture, architecture and cuisine along the Indian Ocean.
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