Kenya Great Birding Safaris

Kenya has one of the richest avifauna in Africa with about 1,090 species recorded. Around 170 of these are Palearctic migrants and at least a further 60 are intra-Africa migrants. Some 230 species are entirely forest dependent and 110 require undisturbed habitat.

Traveling in Kenya safaris is quite exciting. Apart from animal game viewing, Kenya holidays also offer you great birding safaris which enable you to witness millions of flamingos in Lake Nakuru, the various types of vultures in Maasai Mara.

Ostriches in the Maasai Mara plains

Other birds found in Maasai Mara include crested, lilac rollers, bastards, starlings, herons, fowls, ostriches among others. These birds not only has sell Maasai Mara as a tourist attraction but also   Kenya as the best destination in terms of wildlife game viewing and birding safaris.

Birding in Kenya is a whole year activity, however, the best time is between October and April when more than 120 migrant species have arrived from the Northern hemisphere, mostly from the Palearctic but with some African migrants such as Forbes-Watson’s Swift; there is also the chance of finding one of the passage migrants such as the Sooty Falcon in March-April and October-December.

Alternatively, if you’re interested in bird-ringing, the latter period is when there’s a large bird ringing exercise at Ngulia in Tsavo National Park.

Kenya's beautiful birds relaxing

The coast is particularly good during this period with large flocks of water birds congregating at Mida Creek and Sabaki Estuary and lamu, while the Rift Valley lakes attract a lot of northern waterfowl making Kenya as the best destination for birding safaris.

Travelers have a wide variety to choose between going for nature walk during his safaris or travel by vehicle during his photography safaris and enjoy all game birding safaris. Kenya offers the best opportunities for your photographic needs. If you are a nature lover, a people person or have a passion for sceneries, then look no further than a safari in Kenya.

Helmeted guinea fowl,Maasai Mara-Kenya

The suddenness of dawn in Kenya brings a quickening of the pulse. Now the lambent dawn floods the plains and the light flushes the shadows of night from the thickets, along hidden rills, and chases them across the tawny grasslands as the sun climbs, agile, over the curve of the equator. With these great birding safari, many leave have leave  great testimonies of the wonderful experience they encounter during their stay and many are yearning to come back for these ultimate experience.

Sharon Sheery

Kenya birding safaris

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Adventure on Kenya big cats safaris-the elusive leopard.

Introduction

Leopards are known to be the most secretive and elusive animal of all the carnivores and also sagacious carnivore. Pound for pound, it is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself because of its powerful muscles

Ecological niche

Leopards mostly live in dense bush with rocky surroundings, but can also adapt to many places in both warm, humid and cold climates for its survival. Leopards are primarily nocturnal, usually resting and relaxing during the daytime in trees or thick bush camouflaging. With all these behavior are best seen in Kenya Tanzania safaris.

The elusive leopard in Kenya safaris

 Morphological characteristics
Leopards have varying coat colors ranging from tawny, light buff or dark shade especially in forested areas. Though in East Africa the spots, or rosettes, are circular like but square in southern African leopards which give them a distinctive feature.

 Social behavior

 Basically leopards are solitary animals and go out of their way to avoid one another in time f hunting or resting. Each animal has a home range that overlaps with its neighbors; the male's range is much larger and generally overlaps with those of several females. Any intruder into their home range will lead to a strong fight apart from when they are mating.

Leopards continually move about their home ranges, seldom staying in an area for more than two or three days at a time.

Kenya big cats-the elusive leopard of Maasai Mara

 In most cases a male will accompany a female in estrus for a week or so before they part and return to solitude.

They growl and spit with a screaming roar of fury when angry and announce their presence to other leopards with a rasping or sawing cough. They have a good sense of smell and mark their ranges with urine; they also leave claw marks on trees to warn other leopards to stay away.

Feeding Behavior

The leopards are cunning guys, stealthy hunter and their prey ranges such hyraxes, warthogs, antelopes, monkeys and baboons, hare among others

Threats

Leopards have long been preyed by man because of their soft and beautiful fur that Africa religions use for ceremonial robes and coats.

Sharon Sheery

Kenya Tanzania safaris

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Kenya the beauty land of great game viewing safaris!!

Great safaris in Kenya kick off early in the morning where wonderful and exciting game drives start just before sunrise, where one is awoken up by the lullabies songs of birds and roaring sounds of wild animals that celebrate for the morning glory before one is welcome for a cup of steaming hot Kenyan highland coffee. As the sun rises, all the driver guides with guests are out on the savannah plains, taking in the fresh smell of the moist grasses and observing the scenic nature and its amazing wildlife in their natural ecosystem.

Every game viewing end up in the camp where

Kenya Maasai Mara Safaris game viewing

you will enjoy the lavishly set breakfast set by professional chefs and waiters. The guests have to relax on their own private verandah with a good look simply taking a pleasure in the plentiful wildlife that loiters in the Mara plains. Guests enjoy a delicious lunch and spend the afternoon basking in the sun at the poolside as they wait for afternoon game drives which usually start in the late afternoon and one returns to camp just before the darkness fall or enjoy the beautiful sundowner in the Mara plain.

Game drives are designed to take you close to the wildlife rich spots in the Maasai Mara. This gives the guest an opportunity to view wild animals in their natural habitat as safari guide makes as enormous difference by elaborating  to the guests  more  details  on  wildlife and its habitat, as well as giving an insight into the culture of the  Maasai people making their safaris fantastic and memorable.

However, game drives can be done either day time or night hours.

Safaris in Kenya-wonderful game viewing

A night game drive offers an opportunity to the guest to explore a range of nocturnal wildlife that is generally unseen during the daylight hours. The powerful beam rays of a red-filtered light help to spot these nocturnal animals with diurnal animals taking a different appearance or shape to suite the ecological niche. The thrill of catching the glinting white reflection of a predator's eye in the torchlight will certainly send shivers up the back of your neck. It is the experience of being in the wild at night that makes night game drives safaris so exciting and wonderful experience to recall.                                                                                                                                            

Traveling in Kenya holidays is quite fantastic, one select either for nature walk, night game drive, bush dinner and other amazing game viewing making  you to yearn for coming back to Kenya safaris once  more!

Sharon Sheery

Kenya holidays

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Kenya Safaris.: Discover more about kenya wildlife,The rhino.

Kenya Safaris.: Discover more about kenya wildlife,The rhino.: The word rhinoceros is a combination of two Greek words rhino meaning nose and ceros meaning horn. There are five types of rhinoceros two f...

Discover more about kenya wildlife,The rhino.

The word rhinoceros is a combination of two Greek words rhino meaning nose and ceros meaning horn. There are five types of rhinoceros two for African namely white and black, and three for Asians greater one-homed, java and Sumatran but in Kenya we only have the white and black rhinos both found in Nakuru national park.
Rhinos are known to be the largest land mammals after the elephant and are herbivores and thus eat plants just like herbivores animals. Their physical features of white rhinos include square-shaped lips, suitable to graze on grass. Other rhinos prefer to eat the foliage of trees or twigs of trees in the bushes.
However, in Kenya safaris you have a chance to view both the black and white rhinos. Black rhino (Diceros bicornis) weigh about 2,400kg and live in various habitats, but mainly areas with dense, woody vegetation  while white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) weigh about 7,500kg and live in savannas with water holes, mud wallows and shade trees because they like wallowing in mud to keep off being bite by tsetse flies and other parasites.. (African rhinos). The Asian rhinos Sumatran  weighs (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)  400kg.while  Javan Rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus)  is  100kg and Indian Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) weigh more than 2000kg.
Rhinos are found in parts of Africa and Asia. They live in an ecosystem ranging from forest to savanna in tropical and subtropical regions. Since they are solitary animals both male and female rhinos have their territories. Males mark and defend their territories using their cow dugs. Rhinos use their horns not only in battles for territory but also to defend themselves from any dangers like the lions which might eat their young ones. Though researchers indicate that most of the rhinos fight during courtship and as a result, most get wounded.
Rhinos give birth to only one calf after 14 to 16 months but weaning up start after one year though the calf start eating plants after one week of calving. The closest rhino relationship is between a female and her calf, lasting from 2 to 4 years. As the older calves mature, they leave their mothers and may join other females and their young, where they are tolerated for some time before living completely on their own to survive in their natural habitat
Rhinos rank among the most endangered species on Earth. This is because of the value of their horns and thus, they face a serious threat from poaching which call for government intervention to curb this menace to increasing conservation and wildlife awareness, but efforts are underway to save the rhino from extinction as they are among the Kenya big five animals which attracted thousands of tourists in the country.

Sharon Sherry
Kenya safaris
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Kenya luxurious accomodation in the wilderness.

Kenya's luxury camp in Maasai Mara-Mahali Mzuri Camp

Visit our Kenya holiday safaris for a  luxurious camps/lodges in the wilderness of  Maasai Mara. They are the best and luxurious accommodations in the park where you can enjoy outdoor activities like Kenya wildlife, photographic and serene atmosphere. What better way is there to enjoy all of these other than in sheer luxury? These classic accommodations   will help make your safari a truly unforgettable experience. Strategically located on an oxbow of the Mara River it offers various elegant suites stylishly designed to give you both comfort and exclusivity together with ambiance, fine dining, swimming pool and of course a spa.

However, they also provide you with an excellent viewing point of sun downer and sun set just at on your balcony sides. What drives you most are the lullaby echoes sung by various birds awaking you early morning for the Kenya amazing sun rise!

Executive accommodation Kenya's top rated camp-Maasai Mara.

Ranging from lodges, hotel, resorts and camps enables you to choose Kenya facilities that suite your taste and preferences. With these excellent facilities, these will make your Kenya holiday safaris enjoyable and memorable.

join us to these comfort zone in all your Kenya holiday safari!

Sharon Sheery

Kenya holiday

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Kenya Beach Holiday

Kenya's luxurious Beach hotels-Mombasa-Kenya

The Kenya coastal city of Mombasa is one of Africa’s major tourist destinations that offers beachholidays. Travel to Kenya holiday to enjoy luxurious beach holidays and the calm ocean breeze at our best resorts for all your holidays in Kenya safaris. Experience Soft White Sandy Beaches famously the Warmest Ocean in the World with Kenya holidays.  Taste! Discover and experience a deep sea fishing expedition, boat riding with Kenya Beach Holidays among other recreational activities as you explore many other funs with Kenya beach holidays.

For many decades, beach holidays in Kenya have attracted more tourists in our country both international and local tourists putting Kenya among the top rank countries in terms of tourist arrivals. Our tourists not only are being attracted with these luxurious resorts or camps but also the quality assurance in terms of delivery services to all our clients offered by tour operators and other service providers in the industry. Kenya beach holidays are not only meant for travelers or explorers but also honeymooners are known to be the most popular clients that enjoy these safaris and lots have testimonies regarding the same.

The beauties of Kenya beach holidays

Our beach holidays in Kenya have for long time remain to be the main attraction in the Mombasa coast sites with clients adventuring to the ruins and other historical sites like Forth Jesus, Vasco Da Gama pillar in Malindi which isMalindi’s most famous monument, is the bell-shaped Vasco Da Gama Pillar, erected by the Portuguese explorer as a navigational aid in 1498. The coral pillar is topped by a cross made of Lisbon stone, which almost certainly dates from Da Gama’s time, and stands on the rocks at the northern end of Casuarinas’ Beach.

With beach holidays in Kenya, you also have the opportunity to witness the Agiriama dancers who for long known to perform drum beating in different styles during various occasions and known for marrying many wives as their customs allowed them. They consider children as bringing wealth to the family after marriage. Travel to this world for a real time experience in our safaris with Soin Africa safaris.

Sharon sheery

Kenya holiday

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