From the breathtakingly beautiful setting of the Ngorongoro crater to the Serengeti, famed for its annual migration when some six million hooves pound the open plains, this adventure ends with four days in the Seychelles where lush palms and tropical forests bloom and glorious white beaches abound.
KENYA
Lapped by the Indian Ocean, straddling the equator, and with Mount Kenya rising above a magnificent landscape of forested hills, patchwork farms and wooded savanna, Kenya is a richly rewarding place to travel. The country’s dramatic geography has resulted in a great range of natural habitats, harboring a huge variety of wildlife, while its history of migration and conquest has brought about a fascinating social panorama, which includes the Swahili city-states of the coast and the Maasai of the Rift Valley.
Kenya’s world-famous national parks, tribal peoples and superb beaches lend the country an exotic image with magnetic appeal. Treating it as a succession of tourist sights, however, is not always the most stimulating way to experience it. Once off the beaten track, one can enter the world inhabited by most Kenyans: a ceaselessly active scene of muddy farm tracks, corrugated-iron huts, tea shops and lodging houses, crammed buses and streets with wandering goats and children. Both on and off the tourist routes, you’ll find warmth and openness and an abundance of superb scenery – rolling savanna dotted with Maasai herds and wild animals, high Kikuyu moorlands grazed by cattle and sheep, and dense forests full of monkeys and birdsong.
Why Kenya
- The Great Wildebeest Migration in Africa.
- High density & assorted wildlife experiences in national parks & reserves.
- World-class birding at Kenya’s great rift valley lakes.
- Kenya’s turquoise waters, white sand beaches and isolated islands.
- Kenya is home to the world’s second longest coral reef – the Kenyan Barrier Reef.
- Walk across the Equator.
