The Republic of Kenya is a country in Eastern Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border.
It`s considered by many anthropologists as the cradle of humanity. Fossils found in East Africa suggest that primates roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids such as Homo habilis (1.8 and 2.5 million years ago) and Homo erectus (1.8 million to 350,000 years ago) are possible direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens and lived in Kenya during the pleistocene.
Kenya offer a hunge land area of wildlife habitat, including maasai mara, where blue wildebeest and other bovids participate in a large scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 blue wildebeest perish each year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the dry season.
The "big five" animals of Africa can also be found in Kenya: the lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and elephant. A significant population of other wild animals, reptiles and birds can be found in the national parks and game reserves in the country. The environment of Kenya is threatened by high population growth and its side-effects.
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We offer several kind of adventure tours in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Some offers are safari in the Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation area, climbing of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and meeting of exotic tribes. Contact us for more information and tour offers.
Contact information:
The Eriksen Adventure
St. Ellis House, 1st Floor, Office 114
City Hall way
P.O.Box 21082 00100 Nairobi - Kenya
Telephone: + 254 20 244834
Fax: +254 20 244836
Mobile: + 254 (0) 722 472 772
E-mail: info@theeriksenadventure.com
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Kenya is a diverse country, with many different cultures represented. Notable cultures include the Swahili on the coast, pastoralist communities in the north, and several different communities in the central and western regions. Today, the Maasai culture is well known, due to its heavy exposure from tourism although it is only a minor tribe.
The sites which are inscribed on the World Heritage list are:
Lamu Old Town
This town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. It`s locaed in the Coast Province, Lamu District.
Natural Lake Turkana National Parks
The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and a variety of venomous snakes.
The Koobi Fora deposits, rich in mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains, have contributed more to the understanding of paleo-environments than any other site on the continent.
According to Unesco, the Lake Turkana ecosystem with its diverse bird life and desert environment offers an exceptional laboratory for studies of plant and animal communities.
Mount Kenya
At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, during whose period of activity (3.1–2.6 million years ago) it is thought to have risen to 6,500 m.
There are 12 remnant glaciers on the mountain, all receding rapidly, and four secondary peaks that sit at the head of the U-shaped glacial valleys.
With its rugged glacier-clad summits and forested middle slopes, Mount Kenya is one of the most impressive landscapes in East Africa. The evolution and ecology of its afro-alpine flora also provide an outstanding example of ecological processes.
According to Unesco is the national park one of the most impressive landscapes of Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moor lands and diverse forests, which illustrate outstanding ecological processes. It`s located in the districts of Meru, Nyeri, Kirnyaga and Embu in Eastern and Central Provinces.
It was reported on the website MagicalKenya.com - the official destination website of Kenya Tourist Board, 22 November 2006, that Kenya's Maasai Mara Reserve has been named one of the new Seventh Wonders of the World in a poll of experts conducted by ABC Television's Good Morning America.
In Masai Mara
The incredible annual migration of over a million Wildebeeste from the Serengeti plains to the Mara has been described as being one of the most awe inspiring sights on earth, and a broadcast on US morning television took this spectacle into millions of American homes.
Kakamega Forest Reserve
This superb small slab of virgin tropical rainforest is home to a huge variety of birds and animals and is becoming particularly popular, according to Lonely Planet.
There are plenty opportunities for unique safari adventures in Kenya. Take your time to experience what could be your journey of lifetime. Then you will understand why the Swahili word safari literally means journey.
Stein Morten Lund, 29 November 2006
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Experience the drama of wildbeast migration between Masai Mara and Serengeti – the world’s greatest wild life spectacle
Get face-to-face with the wildest wild life in the middle of African savannahs. The Eriksen Adventure offers a wide variety of tour opportunities in East African countries as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. For travellers with genuine adventurous spirit, the wildbeast migration between Masai Mara and Serengeti is really something to experience. The ecosystem here is considered as one of our planet's greatest wildernesses. The migration is an endless pilgrimage, with no beginning or no end, where animals continuously search for food and water.
Photo. Wildbeasts on their way to Masai Mara, also called the Eight Wonder of the World.
Another opportunity for unique adventures is the Ngorongoro Conservation area, which is home to the famous volcanic Ngorongoro crater. It`s located near Arusha in Tanzania. This enormous crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world, and notified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. A population of about 25,000 large animals, largely ungulates along with the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa, lives in the crater. Maasai herders graze their cattle amid the wildlife here, which roams freely.
If the wildebeest migration of the Masai Mara and Serengeti, and wild life in Ngorongoro Conservation area is not enough, the Eriksen Adventure offers travellers to combine it with climbing Africa’s highest peaks Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Mt. Kenya in Kenya.
Get in touch with local tribes
East Africa has also a fascinating tribal people with timeless cultures unchanged by the modern world. Many of them have retained their ancient traditions and crafts. The nomadic pastoral tribes are amongst the most colourful in East Africa.
| Photo. Tribe people in Kenya displaying their traditional dance. |  |
The Eriksen Adventure offer tours to meet exotic tribes as Luo, the Abagusii, and the Kuria people near Lake Victoria. Other tribes travellers can visit are the Abaluhyia people, who organise bull fighting, and the Isikuti people who are renowned for their spectacular traditional dances.
The staff and guides in The Eriksen Adventure have lived and worked in Africa for years, taking travellers from around the world on adventurous safaris. Each day spent in East Africa, brings new dramatic sights, sounds and experiences where two days never are the same!
Contact information:
The Eriksen Adventure
St. Ellis House, 1st Floor, Office 114
City Hall way
P.O.Box 21082 00100 Nairobi - Kenya
Telephone: + 254 20 244834
Fax: +254 20 244836
Mobile: + 254 (0) 722 472 772
E-mail: info@theeriksenadventure.com
Website: www.theeriksenadventure.com
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