ANIMAL KINGDOM MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE An hour before dawn a family of tourists wakes to the sound of a lion’s roar outside their campsite’s gate They get ready for a wildlife safari inside Masai Mara National Reserve They head out with their guide Cameras click as the family comes upon giraffes nibbling leaves 4
OTHER TOP SITES FORT JESUS LAKE VICTORIA MOUNT KENYA NAIROBI NATIONAL MUSEUM They see lionesses chasing zebras across the savanna and rhinos cooling off at a watering hole Herds of antelope wildebeest and red elephants fill the open plains As they head back to their campsite dry grasses seem to shimmer in the heat of the afternoon This is Kenya 5
LOCATION Kenya is located along the equator in East Africa It covers about 224,081 square miles 580 367 square kilometers The capital city of Nairobi sits in the south-central part of the country just south of the equator Kenya’s neighbor to the east is Somalia The Indian Ocean washes upon Kenya’s southeastern shore Tanzania spans across the southern border while Lake Victoria Africa’s largest freshwater lake lines the southwest corner Uganda is to Kenya’s west South Sudan and Ethiopia are its neighbors to the north SOUTH SUDAN UGANDA 6
NO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Because Kenya is on the equator it gets the same amount of daylight all year long Seasonal changes in the Earth’s tilt do not affect Kenya the way countries farther north or south are affected ETHIOPIA SOMALIA KISUMU KENYA NAIROBI LAKE VICTORIA TANZANIA MOMBASA INDIAN OCEAN 7
