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Kenya Images
Kenya, named after Mount Kenya and with a population of 54.03 million (2022), is located in east Africa and borders the Indian Ocean to its south-east, Somalia to its north-east, Ethiopia to its north, Sudan to its north-west, Uganda to its west and Tanzania to its south. The country is renowned for its tourism boasting tropical beaches to forests and sweeping savannahs and is widely regarded as Africa's premier safari destination and has been for centuries. In fact, tourism today is the largest single export earner in the country. Germany and the United Kingdom provide most of these tourists, attracted by the country's beach and game reserves ~ however recent pirate attacks and kidnappings of visiting tourists is likely to damage the tourist sector with visitors preferring to visit safer areas of the continent. |
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The country is home to fifty nine conservation parks with Amboseli and Masai Mara, bordering on Tanzania, being the best known. The Masai Mara was originally established in the early 1960s to protect wildlife from hunters and today has nearly tripled in size to 583 square miles and remains one of the must see places to visit in Kenya not least because you are almost guaranteed to see the Big 5 animals of rhinos, buffalos, elephants, leopards and lions. If visiting the Masai Mara, take time for a visit to Mount Kilimanjaro which, whilst in Tanzania from where its accessible for hiking with tour guides, also straddles the two countries' border and can be seen here live with our webcam. 
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