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Arabuko Sokoke is a few kilometres inland, between the towns of Kilifi
and Malindi, 110 km north of Mombasa. It is the largest existing
fragment of the tropical forests that once covered much of the East
African coast...
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These remote and wild parks, along with Sibiloi National Park, are
UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The park offers visitors some stunning
scenery and excellent bird-watching opportunities with flamingos,
pelicans and water birds.
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Mount Elgon is Kenya’s second highest
mountain. It lies 140 km north-east of Lake Victoria and is bisected by
the Kenya-Uganda border. An ancient eroded volcano with a huge caldera,
its summit has the spectacular flat-topped basalt column known as
Koitobos
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Marsabit National Reserve covers an area of 1,500 square km and
consists of a forested mountain that rises like an oasis in the middle
of the desert wilderness and is the only source of permanent surface
water in the region.
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The Chyulu Hills are situated 190 km
south-east of Nairobi and 30 km south-west of Kibwezi. They are of
relatively recent volcanic origin and the range is composed of ash
cones and craters...
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 Mount Kenya is an imposing extinct volcano dominating the landscape of
the Kenyan Highlands. The mountain has two main peaks – Batian
5,200metres) and Nelion (5,188 metres).
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Meru is a savanna National Park, 35 km east of Maua town in the north eastern lowlands below the Nyambeni hills.
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Ndere Island, a newly gazetted park, is an
island just off the northern shore of Lake Victoria and was opened in
November 1986. Ndere means ‘meeting place’ in the language of the local
Luo tribe...
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The park was partially established through the initiative of National
Museums of Kenya to protect unique prehistoric and archeological sites
some of which are linked to the origin of man.
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Ruma national park was established mainly to
protect the Roan antelope, common only to this park.
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Saiwa is the smallest park in Kenya, only 3
square km. It was established to protect the semi-aquatic sitatunga
antelope and encloses the swamp fed by the Saiwa river together with
its fringing belts of rain forest.
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Tsavo West National Park covers approximately
30 per cent of Kenya’s park area, and contains a diversity of habitats,
wildlife and a mountainous scenic landscape...
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Amboseli lies immediately
north-west of Mount Kilimanjaro, on the border with Tanzania. The Park
covers 392 square km, and forms part of
the much larger 3,000 square km Amboseli ecosystem...
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 The Aberdares is an isolated volcanic range that forms the eastern wall
of the rift valley, running roughly 100 km north-south between Nairobi
and Thomson’s Falls. Soils are red and of volcanic origin, but rich in
organic matter...
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A rugged, hump-backed outcrop of ancient rock
jutting high above the Athi Plains and hazily visible from Nairobi...
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Tsavo National Park is the largest park in
Kenya and was established on 1st April, 1948. The park has an
interesting and diverse history...
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 The name Longonot is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong’ot meaning
mountains of many spurs or steep ridges. Longonot park covers 52 square
km most of it being occupied by Mt. Longonot – a young volcano rising
to 2,776 metres above sea level.
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 Lake Nakuru is a shallow strongly alkaline lake set in a picturesque
landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland. The landscape includes
areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and
outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with
a Euphorbia forest.
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Hell’s Gate National Park covers an area of
68.25 square km and is situated in the environs of Lake Naivasha...
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 Samburu National Reserve is one of the lesser-known national parks, but
is nevertheless teeming with life. Situated alongside the Ewaso Nyiro
River, there is plenty to attract wildlife from the surrounding
savannah plains.
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National Parks in Kenya 