Kenya National Parks and Game Reserves

Tsavo West National Park established in 1948, is located about 200 km south-east of Nairobi in southern Kenya and about 200km north of Mombasa. Separated only by the Mombasa/Nairobi road from Tsavo East, Tsavo West National Park is part of the entire Tsavo eco-system that includes Tsavo East and West National Parks and the Chyulu Hills.- a vast ecosystem where the relationship between wildlife and its environment has been allowed to take its own natural course. The park offers diverse habitats including mountains, rivers, forests, plains, lakes and wooded grassland.

Lake Nakuru National Park is located in the Great Rift Valley and is world famous as the location of the greatest bird spectacle on earth - myriads of fuchsia Pink flamingoes whose numbers are legion, often more than a million maybe two. Lake Nakuru National Park landscape consist of wooded and bush grassland around the lake offering wide ecological diversity from lake water, woodland to the rocky escarpment and ridges.

Tsavo East National Park is located about 260km south east of Nairobi, on the main Nairobi to Mombasa road and 140 Kilometers from Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa. Tsavo East is part of the Greater Tsavo National Park that includes Tsavo East and West National Parks and the Chyulu Hills and consists mostly of miles and miles of dry flat thorn-bush, semi-arid acacia scrub and narrow woodland dominated by acacia. The wonderful Baobab trees are also a common sight in the Park. Whilst Tsavo East is huge (over 4500sq miles), most of the park north of the Galana river is closed to the general public with only a few private safari operations permitted to enter.

The Aberdares is a mountain range which thrusts directly North of Nairobi for more than 160 km. Part of the range is protected as the Aberdares National Park and encompasses all land over 3200m together with a projection due east, known as the Salient, which reaches down to 2130 m near Nyeri town.

Samburu Reserve, established in 1985, is an arid, hilly region with riverine forests, doum palms, acacia woodland and scrubland, offering a dramatic and rugged landscape in a rather remote location of Kenya - which is precisely the attraction of this reserve - fewer tourists in a wildlife rich, desert like setting amidst a colourful local tribe - The Samburu People. Samburu National Reserve is situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in the dry northern reaches of Kenya.

Amboseli National Park is situated on the Kenya-Tanzania border and is famous for its big game and its great scenic beauty. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest and The World's Highest-Free-Standing mountain dominates Amboseli National Park's landscape. Observation Hill – an area that affords it’s visitors 360 degrees of magnificent views of the park and for the best view of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The Masai Mara is in southwestern Kenya on the border of Tanzania. The reserve is situated in the Rift Valley and is contagious with Tanzania's Serengeti Plains running along its southern end. Named after the Masai - the people who occupy the land and the Mara River which runs through the reserve (north to south), the Masai Mara National Reserve was established in 1961 to protect wildlife and it's eco-system.