Direct Answer Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya are Africa’s first and second highest peaks, and both can be climbed without technical mountaineering skills if you choose the right route. Kilimanjaro,…

Direct Answer The Big Five, lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino, is a term coined by big game hunters for the five animals most dangerous to track on foot, and…

Direct Answer There is no single best safari in Kenya, the right choice depends on your budget, how you like to travel, and what you actually want to experience. Kenya…

Direct Answer The Serengeti is Tanzania’s largest national park at roughly 14,750 square kilometres, and the anchor of the wider ecosystem it shares with Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Unlike the Mara,…

Direct Answer A Maasai Mara safari centres on Kenya’s most famous wildlife reserve, a 1,510 square kilometre stretch of rolling savannah in the south west of the country that forms…

Direct Answer Traveling to Kenya for the first time raises a specific set of practical questions that go beyond choosing which parks to visit: how entry requirements work now that…

Direct Answer Lake Nakuru National Park, roughly a three-hour drive from Nairobi in Kenya’s Rift Valley, punches well above its 188 square kilometre size. It is widely regarded as one…

Direct Answer Diani Beach, on Kenya’s southern coast near Mombasa, is the country’s most established beach destination and the natural way to close a safari itinerary. It combines powder-white sand…

Direct Answer The Maasai Mara is one of Kenya’s most visited safari destinations, and for good reason: it consistently delivers exceptionally strong predator sightings for a reserve of its size.…

Direct Answer Amboseli National Park sits in southern Kenya beneath Mount Kilimanjaro and is best known for two things: one of Kenya’s most iconic views of Mount Kilimanjaro, and some…