"A baboon is trying to break into our luxury tent as we arrive. The manageress shoos him away and calls a guard who arrives with his spear, a few minutes later. She says our primate friend won't return unless we offer him sweets, which seems good..."
The Best Travel Writing About Kenya
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Kenya and general Kenya travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Kenya
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Naibor Camp: A Safari Camp in Kenya
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Caroline Phillips
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Kenya
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Masai Mara Region
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Masai Mara
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Outrageous Weekends in Africa
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Joe Cawley
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Kenya
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Samburi National Park
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Samburu
"“Right love. What do you want to do this weekend? Go down the pub? Take a wet walk in the park? Pop over to Africa for a quick safari?” After my partner, Joy, had finished choking on her coffee I showed her how neatly-timed night..."
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Walking with the Maasai
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Rebecca Ford
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Kenya
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Masai Mara Region
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Masai Mara
"It is the middle of the night. I am sitting outdoors on a pit toilet, while a Maasai warrior armed with a spear, stands guard nearby. I peer nervously into the inky darkness, hoping that the lion I heard earlier has moved away from our camp, and..."
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Saving the Rhino
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Mark Eveleigh
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Kenya
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Nairobi Region
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Nairobi
"‘Even as the rhino charged I knew that I should be climbing a tree. But the wispy acacia trees around me were all too insubstantial to take my weight and there was no escape. Luckily, as rhino charges go, this was also a fairly..."
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The Omo River/ Lake Turkana Boat Expeditions
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Will Jones
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Kenya
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Northern Kenya
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Lake Turkana
"On Kenya’s northern border with Ethiopia lies Lake Turkana, also known as the Jade Sea. From their base on the western shores of Lake Turkana, Halewijn and Joyce Scheuerman run remote expeditions across Lake Turkana, across the Omo Delta and further..."
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Kenya
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Brian Schofield
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Kenya
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Masai Mara Region
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Masai Mara
"It’s unlikely to crop up in any brochure, but if you sit on the right-hand side on the short flight from Nairobi to the Masai Mara National Park, you’ll have the best view of a sight just as memorable as any waterfall or snow-topped mountain: Kibera..."
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Visiting the Pokot People
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Binyavanga Wainaina
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Kenya
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Lake Naivasha
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Great Rift Valley
"Everything around me is a memory of water. The dry riverbeds, the millions of dried petrified trees, the camels taunting us all. The hot dry wind, the water carved gullies, the large flat depressions that become marshland when it rains. The stone..."
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The Hidden Treasure of Mathare
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Binyavanga Wainaina
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Kenya
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Nairobi Region
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Nairobi
"My eyes hurt. I'm still not used to having the sun directly above me again. There is a truth in what you see in Kenya that is uncompromising - there is no soft focus here. The Serengeti migration has nothing on Eastlands at rush hour. Eastlands is..."
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The Colours of Baringo
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Susan Storm
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Kenya
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Lake Naivasha
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Great Rift Valley
"Africa is a continent of a million colours - provided the journey is slow enough to capture them. I discovered that it really is important to stop and smell the thorn trees... Craig drove as if a tokoloshe was chasing him. He careened..."
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Kenya's Laikipia Plateau
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Brian Jackman
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Kenya
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Mt Kenya & Aberdares
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Laikipia
"Laikipia lies on the threshold of Kenya's wild Northern Frontier Province. It is an enormous area, stretching from the slopes of Mt Kenya to the rim of the Great Rift Valley, and is larger than all Kenya's game reserves and national parks except..."
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