Kenya Wildlife Tour.
Kenya Wildlife Safaris: Kenya is a famous safari destination once named as the heart of Africa that ranks among the most visited safari destinations in the entire world. However, the country is located in East Africa, boasting romance, wilderness and a wide range of attractions for adventure during your visit here. Most especially from the month of June to October, Kenya receives millions of tourists annually.
Fact: due to the amazing world’s annual gathering of wildebeest migration events, which tend to cross over to Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve through the Mara River from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Moreover, it’s more of a privilege for Kenya Wildlife Safari to be one of the world’s most pristine safari destinations, because worldwide Kenya is renowned for hosting huge populations of wildlife as well as the annual Great Wildebeest Migration, which is recognised as the largest wildlife migration on planet earth. However, the remarkable annual wildebeest migration is recorded at around 1.5 million, accompanied by thousands of zebras, elands, and gazelles from Serengeti National Park to Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Currently, Kenya boasts a total number of around 240 animal species, and the number is increasing day by day. More than that, Kenya is like other countries in hosting a vast number of wildlife species composed of bird species, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects, among others.
The country is native to iconic wildlife species such as lions, hippos, elephants, buffaloes, zebras and giraffes, among others. Furthermore, Kenya is home to all the big five species, such as lions, rhinos, buffaloes and elephants, which are the most sought after on safari here. Other animal species to adventure on a Kenya safari holiday include zebras and spotted hyenas. Cheetahs, Beisa oryx, giraffes, long-necked gerenuk, oribis, dik-diks, lesser kudu, spotted hyenas, African wild dogs, genets, suni, among others. Wild animals in Kenya are protected in various areas, including the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Amboseli National Park, Nairobi National Park, Tsavo National Park, Samburu National Park, Chyulu Hills National Park, Mombasa Marine National Park, Mount Longonot National Park, and Central Island National Park, among others.
Kenya is a rewarding safari destination for birders, hosting more than 1134 recorded bird species composed of endemic, accidental and introduced species as well as migratory bird species. Fact: Kenya is a true birding paradise with several beautiful bird species, including the Somali sparrow, blue-headed bee-eater, Aberdare cisticola, flamingoes, Abbott’s starling, Clarke’s weaver, grey-crested helmet-shrike, Hinde’s pied babbler, Jackson’s hornbills, Tait’s thrush, Tana River cisticola, blue-headed bee-eater, great blue turaco, Kori bustard, red-naped bush-shrike, secretary bird, Friedman’s lark, and golden-breasted starling. Golden-winged sunbirds, great blue turacos, Turner’s eremomelas, vulturine guinea fowl, yellow-bellied wattle-eyes, Amani sunbirds, Clarke’s weavers, European bee-eaters, white-fronted bee-eaters, purple-crested turacos, Hartlaub’s turacos, Ross’s turacos, bare-faced go-away birds, white-bellied go-away birds, Abyssinian rollers, lilac-breasted rollers, Madagascar bee-eaters, blue-cheeked bee-eaters, swallow-tailed bee-eaters, yellow bills, black cuckoos, common cuckoos, Jacobin cuckoos, Klaus’s cuckoos, and great spotted cuckoos, among others.
Besides wildlife and birdlife attractions in Kenya, there are more tourist attractions to see on a visit to Kenya Safaris, including mountains, lakes, archaeological sites, museums, white sand beaches and cultural communities, among others.
Some of the great locations for adventuring on a Kenyan Wildlife Safari
Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park lies in the magnificent backdrop of the mighty Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, and is a great location to inhabit with large herds of free-ranging elephants, located in the southeast region of Kenya in the Great Rift Valley region in the Loitoktok district.
The park covers an area of about 392 square kilometres with a landscape comprised of savannah plains. Furthermore, Amboseli is home to a wide range of wildlife and bird species; animals to see include lions, hippos, impalas, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, Maasai giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, spotted hyenas, and cheetahs, among others. It hosts about 400 bird species, and some of the birds to see include: Long-toed lapwings, Pangani longclaws, Von der Dicken’s hornbills, African jacanas, yellow-necked spurfowls, Eurasian thick-knees, Hartlaub’s bustards, and white-billed go-away birds, among others.
Activities to do in Amboseli National Park include game viewing, bird watching, hot air balloon experiences, cultural visits, scenic viewing and many more.
Tsavo west national park
Tsavo West National Park lies in the Coast Province of Kenya and is part of the large Tsavo Conservation Area together with Tsavo East National Park. They are both separated by a railway line. The park’s land is dominated by rugged landscape encompassing a savannah ecosystem, including open grasslands, scrublands, acacia woodlands and belts of riverine vegetation, among others.
Wildlife species to see at Tsavo West National Park include lions, klipspringers, fringed-eared oryx, gerenuk, lesser kudu, bush babies, and hartebeests, among others. The park is home to over 400 bird species to see, including the marsh warbler, Pangani longclaw, corncrake, golden pipit, golden-breasted starling, lesser kestrel, and many more.
Animals to see in Tsavo East National Park include Coke’s hartebeest, Hunter’s hartebeest, yellow-spotted rock hyrax, southern tree hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, African hedgehog, banded mongoose, leopard, lesser kudu, and yellow-spotted rock hyrax, among others.
Masai Mara National Reserve
Maasai Mara National Park is Kenya’s popular safari destination, widely spread with a high concentration of wildlife species and activities. The park lies in the Great Rift Valley in Narok County, covering an area of about 1,510 square kilometres, dominated by open savannah plains, rolling hills and two regional rivers, the Mara River and Talek River, which is an ecosystem.
Maasai Mara’s top tourist attractions include the great wildebeest migration with over 1.5 million wildebeest and thousands of zebras and Grant’s gazelles; Thomson’s gazelle can be seen crossing from Serengeti to Maasai Mara.
Tourist attractions in Maasai Mara National Reserve include elephants, wild dogs, rhinos, leopards, buffaloes, cheetahs, lions, bat-eared foxes, zebras, antelopes, crocodiles, elands and many more.
The Maasai Mara is also home to over 470 bird species which can be spotted on a safari here. Some of the species to see are the white-bellied and Senegal red-capped lark, Fischer’s sparrow lark, Pale wren-warbler, red-tailed and sooty chats, Hildebrandt’s starling, foxy lark, long-billed pipit among others
Central Island National Park
The park is located in the northern region of Kenya and lies in the middle of Lake Turkana, on the island of the world’s largest permanent desert lake, with a total land area of about 5 square kilometres. Central Island National Park is best known as a school of large species of crocodiles and home to large numbers of venomous reptiles like night adders, puff adders and cobras. Fish species include Nile perch, puffer fish, tilapia and many more.
Birds to see in Central Island National Park include Egyptian geese, great egrets, lesser egrets, sacred ibises, ospreys, swallow-tailed kites, grey herons, lesser flamingoes, and African skimmers, among others. Activities to do: birding, guided nature walks, fishing, and game viewing, among others.
Best time to visit Kenya Wildlife Safari.
Kenya can be visited throughout the year, but the best time to visit Kenya without disruption of heavy rainfall is during the dry seasons, from the months of June to October and December to February. Being one of the great stopping destinations to enjoy a gainful watch of the annual wildebeest migration from Serengeti National Park to Maasai Mara National Reserve, you can also visit Kenya in the months of July to October, the best time to watch the wildebeest migration.
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