Maralal Game Sanctuary

Established near Maralal town, the administrative center of Samburu District. Accessibility is by direct road from Samburu National Reserve to Maralal town or from Nyahururu town via Rumuruti to Maralal town.

The Samburu people who inhabit this beautiful country are close relatives of the tall proud nomadic Maasai of Southern Kenya. The sanctuary has big residential populations of impala, eland, buffalo, zebra, coke’s hartebeest, warthog, baboon and the attendant predators - lion, leopard and spotted hyena.

Situated in Maralal is the tin-roofed bungalow converted into a national monument where Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was detained in 1961 before he was released to lead Kenya to Independence in 1963.
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Marsabit National Reserve (2,088 sq. kms)

Mt. Marsabit about 560 kms from Nairobi by road, is without doubt the most attractive of the extinct volcanic mountains of Northern Kenya. Rising out of the Northern desert wilderness like a green oasis , the mountain mass thrusts 1,707 meters (5,598 ft) above the desert floor. Its peak is covered with mist forests and several beautiful crater lakes like Sokorte Guda - lake paradise, where elephant and buffalo congregate for water in the late afternoons.
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