Kenya

Kenya is the classic showcase of African wildlife and at the same time a country of extreme contrasts: from the glacier of Mount Kenya, right on the equator, to the northern deserts around Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the world. The Great Rift Valley crosses it from north to south and lines up alkaline lakes such as Nakuru and Bogoria, whose shallow waters, loaded with cyanobacteria, feed enormous concentrations of lesser flamingo. The Maasai Mara, a continuation of the Serengeti, receives the great wildebeest and zebra migration each year with its dramatic crossings of the Mara River. In the north, Samburu holds species adapted to aridity that are not seen in the south, such as Grévy's zebra and the gerenuk, and the Indian Ocean coast contributes reefs, mangroves and turtles.