Serengeti & Maasai Mara
Open plains, great herds and the patient art of watching wildlife.
Country guide
Kenya
6 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.
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Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0Find your way through Kenya.
The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.
Country orientation
Find the shape of your journey.
See how the 6 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.
Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.
- Serengeti & Maasai Mara
The Original 100 · Open plains, great herds and the patient art of watching wildlife.
- Mount Kenya
Honourable Mentions · Equatorial altitude and extraordinary mountain vegetation
- Lake Turkana
Extraordinary Discoveries · A remote lake landscape central to both ecology and human origins.
- Lake Nakuru
Extraordinary Discoveries · A Rift Valley lake whose wildlife story is broader than a pink shoreline.
- Samburu National Reserve
The Wider World · A dry-country reserve centred on a river offers a distinctive complement to Kenya's more familiar grassland landscapes.
- Lamu
The Wider World · A historic Swahili town brings carved doors, courtyards, maritime connections and continuing urban life into close focus.
The Original 100
1–100 · 1 place in this country
Honourable Mentions
101–200 · 1 place in this country
Extraordinary Discoveries
201–300 · 2 places in this country
Lake Turkana
A remote lake landscape central to both ecology and human origins.
The Wider World
401–500 · 2 places in this country
444 · Kenya
Samburu National Reserve
A dry-country reserve centred on a river offers a distinctive complement to Kenya's more familiar grassland landscapes.
Turn the collection into a journey.
Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.
Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.
For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.