Overview
Kenya works as one trip or three. Nairobi is the hinge, because almost every route in and out passes through it, the Rift Valley lakes sit a couple of hours west, and the Mara and the Indian Ocean coast each justify a week of their own.
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Fun fact
One number worth knowing
Nairobi National Park was gazetted in 1946 as Kenya’s first national park, and its 117 square kilometres still sit inside the capital’s boundary.