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20 places. Road times from Nairobi are KenyaPlus estimates; Big Five counts come from our checked sources.
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Nairobi City County
Kenya's capital city, with Nairobi National Park — home to the endangered black rhino — a short drive from the central business district.
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Narok County
A reserve in southwestern Kenya, the northern part of the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem shared with Tanzania, known for the Great Migration of wildebeest and zebras.
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Kajiado County
A national park in southern Kenya near the Tanzanian border, famous for its large elephant herds and views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak.
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Kwale County
One of Kwale County's top tourism sites, known for its white sandy beaches.
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Mombasa County
A historic port town whose Fort Jesus, built by the Portuguese in 1593–1596 to protect the port, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Nakuru County
A freshwater lake in the eastern arm of the Rift Valley and a Ramsar wetland of international importance, with Hell's Gate National Park to its south.
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Nakuru County
A national park around a very shallow, strongly alkaline lake, famous for its flamingos and a sanctuary for black rhinos.
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Taita Taveta County
A national park of about 13,747 km², gazetted in 1948 and managed by the Kenya Wildlife Service, known for its herds of dust-red elephants.
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Northern Kenya
A group of reserves in northern Kenya — Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba — known for wildlife that is uncommon elsewhere in Kenya, such as Grevy's zebra and the reticulated giraffe.
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Lamu County
Lamu Old Town, on Lamu island, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
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Kenyan highlands, east of the Rift Valley
Africa's second-highest peak at 5,199 m, an extinct volcano about 193 km north-east of Nairobi. Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, first inscribed in 1997.
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Kilifi County
A coastal town in Kilifi County, about 120 km north-east of Mombasa, with the Vasco da Gama Pillar — a national monument managed by the National Museums of Kenya — and Kenya's first marine protected area.
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Kilifi County
A beach area on Kenya's north coast with Watamu Marine National Park and Reserve, a protected area since 1968 managed by the Kenya Wildlife Service, known for coral reefs and nesting sea turtles.
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Central Kenyan highlands
A national park of about 766 km² in the Aberdare (Nyandarua) mountains, gazetted in 1950 and managed by the Kenya Wildlife Service, with moorland, bamboo forest and forested ravines.
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Baringo County
A narrow, shallow, alkaline lake on the Rift Valley floor, protected as Lake Bogoria National Reserve since 1981, with hot springs and geysers on its western shore. It is part of the Kenya Lake System World Heritage Site.
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Lake Victoria catchment
Kenya's only remnant of the tropical rainforest that once stretched across central Africa — a mid-altitude rainforest that is the easternmost outlier of the Congo Basin forests.
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Taita-Taveta County
Kenya's second-largest national park, about 9,065 km² in Taita-Taveta County, with the Big Five, more than 600 recorded bird species and a volcanic landscape of lava flows and springs.
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Eastern Kenya, east of Meru town
A national park of about 870 km², 350 km from Nairobi, protected since 1966 and managed by the Kenya Wildlife Service — where George and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the lioness.
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Kwale County
A national reserve of 192.5 km² in Kwale County, about 30 km south-west of Mombasa, where rolling hills meet one of Kenya's largest remaining coastal rainforests. It has been protected since 1903.
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Western Kenya, on the Uganda border
A mountain national park in western Kenya, gazetted on 5 April 1968, reached through Kitale town. Its highest point, Koitoboss Peak, rises to 4,222 metres.
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