Western Kenya Attractions
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Western Kenya is one of the best regions to get to know the locals. The Luhya people, a large tribal group, are the main inhabitants of the area.
Kakamega Forest National Reserve is home to many unique West-African animals including mammals, reptiles, birds and butterflies. Mount Elgon is the second highest mountain in Kenya and has unusual caves that are frequented by elephants, buffalos, duikers and bushbucks, who venture in to lick salt on the walls of the caves.
Lake Victoria is the world's second largest freshwater lake, and the source of the River Nile.
Kakamega Forest National Reserve is home to many unique West-African animals including mammals, reptiles, birds and butterflies. Mount Elgon is the second highest mountain in Kenya and has unusual caves that are frequented by elephants, buffalos, duikers and bushbucks, who venture in to lick salt on the walls of the caves.
Lake Victoria is the world's second largest freshwater lake, and the source of the River Nile.
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Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara is Kenya's best known National Reserve, drawing large numbers of tourists who come to see the wildlife. This area of the Serengeti borders with Tanzania.
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Kakamega Forest Reserve
As the only tropical rain forest left in Kenya, this park provides habitat for more than 300 species of birds, as well as butterflies, monkeys, and other mammals..
Zebras in Masai Mara National Reserve.
Lion rests in the grass of Masai Mara Reserve.
Landscape of Masai Mara National Reserve.
Hyena and cub on the plains of Masai Mara Reserve.
Lioness in Masai Mara National Reserve.
