Kenya: The Jewel of Africa.

Kenya is East Africa's premier safari destination and fondly regarded as the 'Jewel of Africa'. We can't deny that Kenya has it all, including incredible wildlife, beautiful mountains, deserts, salt lakes, cities, traditional culture, and modern arts.

With one-tenth of all land in Kenya designated as national parks and reserves, Kenya truly is a place for devoted safari guests. The Masai Mara, possibly Kenya's most well known, has some of the biggest predator populations in Africa, so if a Big Cat safari is what you are after, this is the place to be.

Over 50 parks and reserves cover habitats from mountain forest to desert, and there are six marine parks in the Indian Ocean. Although the Masai Mara is Kenya's most famous attraction, Kenya boasts many other national parks, outstanding wildlife, villages, and beaches.

Mystery Gorilla Safaris Says

Kenya is known as the Jewel of Africa; it is the vast home of a wide variety of predators and herbivores, migrating through the Mara Plains every year.

It is rich in tribal culture and practice, where the brightly dresses Maasai people live by the earth, following the rains and avidly conserving Kenya's wildlife.

In addition to game-rich national parks and reserves, which are protected and valued as the wealth of the country, Kenya's Mombasa coast offers some of the most beautiful beach holiday spots on the Indian Ocean shoreline.

The Kenyan Rift Valley is the vast location of a number of salt lakes, where enormous flocks of flamingos paint the waters pink, and hot springs burst through the surface of the unexplored lakes creating a spectacle quite unrivalled.

Top Destinations

Kenya has an abundance of excellent safari camps and lodges to meet everyone's needs, catering for all budgets from backpackers to exclusive safari camps in remote areas.

In the much sought after Masai Mara, where the Great Wildebeest Migration takes place, we recommend Mara Intrepids Camp, situated close to the Talek River; Kicheche Mara Camp, a traditional safari camp situated in a remote corner of the northern Mara plains; and Naibor Camp, luxurious safari camp overlooking the Talek River

The Amboseli Game Reserve, famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants, is the location of another 2 of our favourite camps: Tortilis Camp, offering unsurpassed views of Kilimanjaro; and Amboseli Porini Camp, located within the exclusive Selenkay Conservancy.

How to Get there

Kenya receives from most major airports around the world, as there are many flights entering Nairobi each week with most of them landing at Jomo Kenyatta International airport (NBO).

Upon arrival in Nairobi, Mystery Gorilla Safaris will arrange the necessary domestic scheduled flights, as well as any additional road transfers required.

Most of Kenya's domestic flights depart from Wilson Airport situated just outside the city and this is also where most safaris depart from.

Moi Mombasa International Airport (MBA) is about 10km northwest of Mombasa and is Kenya's gateway to Mombasa and the Kenyan coast.

Kenya Game Viewing and Activities

Every year, thousands of devoted safari guests visit Kenya to witness the world's greatest wildlife spectacle - the Great Migration of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle.

The Masai Mara consists of open savannah, rolling grasslands and undulating hills. It is said to have the largest population of lion in Kenya. Other wildlife includes hippo, crocodile, warthog, and giraffe, which are easily spotted on game drives. These and many more species of plains game offer a rich choice of food for the dominant predators; lion, leopard, and cheetah which hunt in this pristine wilderness.

Whether it is the Masai Mara, Amboseli National Park, Samburu National Reserve or any of the other national parks or conservation areas in Kenya you will be visiting, the wildlife experience is bound to be incredible.

Seasons and Climate

Kenya is situated on the equator, meaning that hot temperatures unavoidable, particularly at some times during the year. The season known as the ‘long rains’ occurs from April to early June, while the cooler season with far less rain begins in late June and continues to October.

The ‘short rains’ arrive for a few weeks in November and December, followed by a dry season of hot, usually rainless, weather until March.

Normally, the dissipation of the long rains in late June brings about the arrival of the millions of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle that have migrated in search of new grass. This is a magnificent sight and is the demonstration of nature at its finest. One must be aware that the Migration is hugely popular and can get crowded during peak season, but there are camps nestled away offering more exclusive views of this wonderful scene.

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Amboseli National Park

Amboseli National Park is located in the south of Kenya, on the Tanzanian border, and is famous for its spectacular view of Mount Kilimanjaro. Amboseli has fantastic game viewing and is particularly well-known for its elephant population. Add caption Amboseli National Park Highlights Amboseli National Park embodies 5 main wildlife habitats: open plains, acacia woodland, rocky thorn bush, swamps and marshlands. The park also covers a part of the Pleistocene lake basin, which is now dry. Within this basin is the temporary Lake Amboseli that floods during heavy rainfall. Although a very dry and arid landscape, Amboseli is quite lush in places. Famously dusty, Amboseli has a layer of ancient volcanic ash, which characterizes the park during the dry season and droughts. In contrast, periods of heavy rainfall can cause flooding in this famously dry land and the Amboseli takes on swampy marshlands. This park enjoys the backdrop of Africa's most iconic mountains, Mount Kil

Meru National Park

Meru National Park is most known for the story of Elsa the Lioness, made famous in the book Born Free. Meru forms part of a complex of protected areas along the Tana River and it straddles the equator in the central part of the country. Mystery Gorilla Safaris Says The story of Elsa the Lioness is undoubtedly the main attraction to Meru National Park. Conservationist couple Joy and George Adamson raised a lion cub, Elsa, and eventually released her back into the wild; a story that inspired the book and film, Born Free. Tragically, the 70s and 80s brought uncontrolled levels of poaching, which eradicated the populations of wildlife. The severity of the situation meant that many lodges and camps closed down until the park was repopulated and protected, bringing to up to what it is today. Meru has an 84 sq km rhino sanctuary that is home to a number of both white and black rhino. It is open to visitors and is particularly close to Elsa's Kopje Camp. Other attra

Masai Mara Safari

The Masai Mara forms part of a huge eco-system incorporating the Serengeti and a number of smaller reserves. The Masai Mara is Kenya's most well-known National Park, famed for being part of the route of the Great Wildebeest Migration. The drama of the Great Migration as the cross the treacherous Mara river Extending northeast from a shared border with Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, the 1,510 km2 Masai Mara is the most famous and popular safari destination in Kenya, if not anywhere in Africa. The appeal of the Mara and adjacent private/community conservancies isn’t difficult to explain. Its mosaic of rolling hills, open grassland and acacia woodland supports a quite incredible profusion and variety of wildlife. Large predators such as lion, leopard, cheetah and Spotted hyena are easily seen at close quarters all year round, and the reserve truly blossoms between August and October, when the legendary wildebeest migration - perhaps the world’s most breathtaking wildlife s

Spectacular L. Nakuru National Park

Scenic Lake Nakuru is Kenya’s most popular national park. It offers good wildlife viewing with four of the Big Five present. The small park doesn’t support elephants, but rhinos are particularly easy to see. Lake Nakuru NP’s main feature is a large, shallow lake, which was famous for big flocks of flamingos. However, since 2012, conditions have become unfavorable for the flamingos and most have moved to other Rift Valley lakes. The lake still supports great birdlife, including big flocks of pelicans and variable flocks of flamingos. Lake Nakuru National Park is spectacular. It has been a blazing sea of deep pink flamingos – millions of them! Their intense fuchsias bursting against Lake Nakuru’s deep blue alkaline waters. Quite simply… it has until some few years ago been the most brilliant show of birdlife on earth. Due to some progressive natural factors , the flamingo numbers have been reducing but the park itself remains stunning – one of Kenya’s finest. Great rocky

Samburu National Reserve

Located on the southern bank of the northern Ewaso Ngiro River, Samburu is home to a large population of Nile crocodiles and is the second most visited game reserve in Kenya. Visitors to Samburu have the opportunity to see some rare wildlife species. Samburu National Reserve Highlights Samburu National Reserve is a rugged and semi-desert park located in Samburu district in the Rift Valley Province in central Kenya. The park neighbors the homes of the Samburu tribe of Kenya, a tribe known for their remote culture, pastoral and nomadic way of life. Samburu National Reserve consists of a low lying, semi arid plain on the southern bank of the northern Ewaso Ngiro River. The reserve which lies 9km east of Buffalo Springs National Reserve was gazetted in 1974. The beautiful stark landscape is dominated by Samburu Hill in the south, at the foot of which is a rugged area with steep ravines. The Ewaso Nyiro River is the lifeline of the area. Crocodile and hippo share the rive

Laikipia Plateau National Park

Laikipia District is a vast 9,500 sq km plateau, one of 71 districts of Kenya located on the Equator. It stretches from the Great Rift Valley to the magnificent escarpments of the northern frontier. It has all the wildlife but none of the crowds found in the Masai Mara. Grevy’s zebra is a highly endangered species of zebra Laikipia Plateau National Park Highlights Dominated by livestock ranches in the colonial era, the vast Laikipia Plateau has since been transformed into one of East Africa’s finest and most exclusive wildlife destinations. Indeed, this mosaic of several dozen private and community-owned sanctuaries now operates as Kenya’s second-largest conservancy after Tsavo. Laikipia National Park, north west of Mount Kenya, has all the wildlife but none of the crowds found in the Masai Mara. Some of the country’s very best eco-lodges are located on this rolling plateau of savannah, seasonal streams and bush. The Laikipia plains are covered by open grasslands,

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