Kenya

Top outfitters share safari planning tips to help you focus on the best opportunities for the trip of a lifetime

By Text And Photography By Ryan Stevenson

Published June 1, 2008
Updated July 1, 2016

With good reason, early settlers and subsequent big-game hunters found present-day Kenya to be the best environment in East Africa. Straddling the equator with generally high elevations, this land enjoys pleasant temperatures and climate for most of the year. Vast grass plains and numerous rivers feed and water great populations of wildlife and birds. Travel magazines continually try to promote the new and undiscovered, but in the case of Kenya, the best is still the best.

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