The Baringo Community Museum and Reptile Park was opened at Lake Baringo on April 15th. The Museum has been established to educate local people and visitors about reptile species. Baringo is well know...
Samburu is very popular with birders - Samburu and Buffalo Springs have over 380 recorded species, with similar numbers in Shaba. Notable species recorded include arid endemics such as Dona...
Bisanadi National Reserve is located on the border of Meru National Park. Known as ‘Kinna’ the border between Meru and Bisanadi Parks is the traditional division between the Meru and Boran...
The Buffalo Springs National Reserve covers an area of 131sq km adjoining Samburu. The reserve offers a unique vista of rounded hills and undulating plains. The mix of wood and grassland with riverine...
On the southern shores of Lake Turkana live Kenya's smallest tribe, the El Molo. The El Molo are some of Kenya's last remaining true hunter gatherers. They survive almost entirely on fishing, using n...
In the language of the Gabbra people who live near the site, the term Koobi Fora means a place of the commiphora and the source of myrrh, which is a common plant in this hot and arid area. Research w...
Another area made famous by the Adamson's is Kora National Park. Opened in October 1989, and 280 km north east of Nairobi, it is an easy outing from Meru National Park. Covering an area of 1,787 sq km...
Baringo is the traditional home of the Njemps tribe, a unique people who are the only pastoral, cattle herding, tribe who also fish. Among other pastoral tribes such as the Maasai, eating fish is a ta...
Although less well known than their Southerly Maasai relations, with whom they share a language, the Samburu have an equally intricate and fascinating culture. Ranging across the great Northern plains...
Shaba National Reserve is on Samburu land and covers 239 sq kms. Shaba was where Joy Adamson, author of Born Free spent her final years, returning a leopard to the wild. This was the subject of her fi...
