d bubbling spring, in this national park you can do a boat ride where you will see hippopotamus at a close range , you will feed birds with small fish from the palm of your hand, you can have a walk or bike ride at the cresent islands where you will see animals like Wildebeest, Waterbuck, Zebra and Gazelle, animals like giraffe who were born here return to give birth in the island, Crescent island is famous due to the fact that the film ‘Out of Africa’ was done here.
The park is located to the south of Lake Naivasha, it covers 68km². Its mainly comprised of savannah ecosystem. Its Spectacular scenery include the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub clad volcanoes and belching plumes of geothermal steam make it one of the most atmospheric Parks in Africa. The park has historically been an important home for the rare lammergeyer vultures. Over 103 species of birds in the park, including vultures, verreaux’s eagles, augur buzzard and swifts, hyraxes, buffalos, zebras, eland, hartebeest, thomson’s gazelle, hyena and baboons are also common. Some of the adventure activities in the park involve Game watching, walking, bicycle riding, Raptor nesting in cliffs, Spectacular Gorge walk, Hot springs, the Olkaria Geothermal Station, Fischer’s Tower, nature trails and picnic sites.
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
Derived from Maasai word “Empusel” meaning mirage. Some books write it means ‘salty dust’ or ‘barren place’. The Park is in the southern circuit and coveres 3200km². It lies about 30km from mt. Kilimanjaro and near Kenya-Tanzania border
Amboseli National park its renowned for its herds of elephantsn and awesome view of Mt Kilimanjaro and it is situated at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro. It Amboseli offers some of the best opportunities to see African animals which Includes the big 5 and other plain game namely: Wildbeaste , Cheetah , Giraffe, Zebra, Elephants, Rhinos, Baboon, Buffalo, Lion , leopard, Plenty of elephants; Roughly 800 elephants. There is also a host of Kenya birds, both large and small. It has
SAMBURU NATIONAL PARK
Samburu National Park is in the northen circuit, it covers 165km squared, it has a spectacular scenic beauty, rivers and forests. It is an area where the local people have a rich and colorful heritage. Samburu is inhabited by abundance in rare northern specialist game adapted to the semi arid conditions.
Samburu National park is Known for the special 5, namely: Gerenuk, Gravy Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich and the Beisa Oryx. The park is a semi desert with a rugged hilly terrain, with great rocky kopjes and it have numerous permanent springs supporting the abundant wildlife. It was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous in the best selling book and award winning movie ‘Born free’. It is also a home of Kamunyak, a lioness famous for adopting Oryx).This park has also 450 species of birds like African Darter, Great Egret, White-headed Vulture, Martial Eagle and the Yellow-billed Ox-pecker among others.
TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK
Tsavo East National Park is in the coastal circuit, its one of Kenya’s oldest and largest National Parks in Kenya at the eastern edge of the inland plateau. Here you find bushy grasslands and rocky open plains alternating with semi-arid acacia scrub and woodland, with the Galana River cutting a green swathe across the park. The seasonal Voi and Tiva rivers are important to the northern and southern portions of the park, as there is little other surface water. Mudanda Rock is a great spectacle of this park as this outcrop is a water catchment area which feeds a natural dam where hundreds of elephants come to drink and bathe during the dry season. Views are exceptional and it is a good place to sit and watch game. Ancient volcanic activity is evident at the Yatta Plateau a long flat-topped lava ridge on the western border of Tsavo East. In this park there are special elephant called red elephant which you cannot find in other parks and different species of birds. You will see other a