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Featured Tour Company - THE OLD LINE SAFARI COMPANY |
 Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, The Old Line Safari Company offers guided East African safaris of all descriptions—from camelback or horseback treks, camping, and student excursions to family vacations, exclusive luxury sojourns, corporate travel, and honeymoons. The privately held enterprise’s focus on promoting conservation and community economic development through ecotourism defines its corporate mission: to actively and conscientiously conduct business in a way that protects the natural environment and endeavors to improve the quality of life of the surrounding community. The Old Line Safari Company, also doing business as Finch Travels, was in 2005 honored with an award for demonstrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) through its work in protecting the natural environment while improving the livelihood of the local host communities. Read more ...
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Popular Safaris - Highlights of Kenya Safari |
 This popular one-week safari offered by Africapoint, one of Kenya's leading tour operators takes you through Kenya’s most popular game viewing locations. The tour starts you off to Samburu, a wildlife haven with a scenic semi-arid landscape. Then to the Aberdares where you find icy rivers, spectacular waterfalls and rain forests. Here elephants, buffalos and other animals visit you at the floodlit waterholes of The Ark. On to Lake Nakuru whose claim to fame is anchored on its flamingo's and the over 400 species of birds found here. This soda lake on the floor of the rift valley is host to millions of flamingos and an important refuge for endangered species- particularly the Rothschild Giraffe and the black and white rhino. Read more ...
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Favourite Getaways - ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK |
 With its proximity to the majestic Mount Kenya and its teeming herds of elephant and other big animals, the Aberdare National Park ranks as one of Kenya's most popular getaways for both domestic and international tourists. Aberdare National Park is part of the Aberdare Mountain Range which forms the steep eastern edge of the Rift Valley and stretches over a wide variety of terrains because it covers altitudes from about 7,000 feet to 14,000 feet above sea level. In 1884, Joseph Thomson, a British explorer, christened the Aberdares after Lord Aberdare. The Aberdares are an isolated volcanic range that forms the eastern wall of the rift valley, running roughly 100km north south between Nairobi and Thomsons Falls. Read more ... |
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Attraction of the month - FORT JESUS |
 Fort Jesus, located on the edge of a coral ridge overlooking the entrance to the Old Port of Mombasa, was built by the Portuguese in 1593 to protect their trade route to India and their interests in East Africa. Designed by an Italian architect, Jao Batisto Cairato, the Fort was his last assignment as Chief Architect for Portuguese possessions in the East, and was the 'crown jewel' of his career; the Fort is today hailed as one of the best examples of 16th century Portuguese military architecture. Throughout its tumultuous history, the Fort changed hands no less than nine times between the Portuguese and Omani Arabs. When Kenya was made a British Colony, the British government used the Fort as a prison; this was the case until 1958, when the government declared Fort Jesus an historical monument under the National Parks, and later under the NMK. Read more ... |
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