Kenya · East Africa
Laikipia and the northern conservancies.
Laikipia is a plateau of private and community conservancies north of Mount Kenya, and the centre of Kenyan rhino conservation.
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It is the part of Kenya that looks least like the postcard and often produces the most interesting days: horseback and camel riding, walking safaris, night drives, and species you will not see in the Mara — Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, gerenuk and beisa oryx among them.
Ol Pejeta is the best known of the conservancies, and Samburu and Meru sit further north again in genuinely arid country.
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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.
- Amboseli and the southern parksAmboseli is elephant country beneath Kilimanjaro, and gives the single most recognisable view in East Africa.
- The Kenyan coastThe coast is Swahili rather than safari — a distinct culture, architecture and cuisine along the Indian Ocean.
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