Kenya Animal Safari-top Four Kenya Safari Hot Spots
SHIMBA HILLS National park
An hours drive from the Indian Ocean through undulating faming country and colourful villages gets you to the beautiful Shimba Hills a stunning landscape with steep valleys rolling hills and pockets of rainforest. While the wildlife may not be abundant the area is home to the only sable antelope in Kenya. Sable is a chocolatebrown horselike antelope with magnificent sweeping sickleshaped horns.The forests of Shimba resonate with exotic sounds of tree frogs birds and bush babies. They host a number of tented camps and lodges designed to induce relaxation. Place of interest for excursions include the Sheldrick Falls and the Mwalunganje Elephant Sanctuary a communitybased conservation project.
TSAVO National park
Apart from the maneating lions that nearly stopped the construction of the KenyaUganda railway more than a century ago Tsavo is renowned for its herd of elephants. You could be forgiven for thinking that the Tsavo elephants are a separate species as their skin looks decidedly red. This is just the rich brown dust giving them a photogenic ruby colour.
AMBOSELI National Park
Amboseli is a place of stark contrast. Despite its sometimes dry and dusty appearance it has an endless water supply filtered by thousands of feet of volcanic rock from Kilimanjaros icecap. These underground streams converge into two clear water springs in the heart of the park. The endemic dust is volcanic ash which spewed from Kilimanjaro a millenim ago. The park is vast the expanse only interrupted by the occasional trumpeting of elephants.
MASAI MARA
This land of abundant wildlife ideal climate and dierse habitats is fanatic at any time of year. But it comes into its own when the wildbeest migrate from Tanzanias Serengeti over the raging Mara River onto the vast grasslands. Its a spectacle. The sheer determination of the animals is amazing. They move as though driven across plain grassland and water. They do not stop. Even when some drown the others just go crashing by. Its a spectacle of a lifetime. The animals migrate from Serengeti in Tanzania to Kenyas Masai Mara between July and September and back in January and February.
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