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Easily the largest city in East Africa, NAIROBI is also the youngest, the most modern, the fastest growing, the largest and, at 1700m, the highest. The superlatives could go on forever. "Green City in the Sun", runs one tour brochure sobriquet, "City of flowers", another. Less enchanted visitors growl "Nairobbery". The city catches your attention at least. This is no tropical backwater.

Most roads, particularly paved ones, lead to Nairobi and, like it or not, you're bound to spend some time here. But walking down Kenyatta Avenue at rush hour, or up Tom Mboya Street after dark, when the security men armed with whips and clubs cluster around their fires on the pavement, it's perhaps easy to forget how quickly you can leave the city and be in the bush.

Apart from being the safari capital of the world, Nairobi is an excellent base for travel , just nine hours by road, or an overnight train journey, to the coast; about the same time to the far west; and just a couple of hours northwest to the great trough of the Rift Valley or north to the slopes of Mount Kenya, while a great day-trip , and one literally on the city's doorstep, is Nairobi National Park , a wild attraction where you'd expect to find suburbs.

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• Western Kenya Travel Videos
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  Like the tiers of a great amphitheatre, western Kenya slopes away from Nairobi, the major game parks and the coast, down to face the stage of Lake Victoria. - Kenya
  

• Lamu Archipelago Kenya Travel Videos
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  A cluster of hot, low-lying desert islands tucked into the coast near the Somalian border, Lamu and its neighbours have a special appeal that many find irresistible. - Kenya
  

• Rift Valley Kenya Travel Videos
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  Kenya's Rift Valley is only part of a continental fault system that runs 6000km clean across Africa from Jordan to Mozambique. - Kenya
  

• Coast from Kilifi to Malindi Kenya Travel Videos
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  From Mtwapa Creek up to Malindi , the landscape is a diverse collage, from rolling baobab country and sisal plantations as you near Kilifi to groves of cashew trees after it; thick, jungly forest and swamp characterizes Mida Creek, and there's a more compact, populated zone of shambas and thicket as you approach Malindi. - Kenya
  

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  Easily the largest city in East Africa, NAIROBI is also the youngest, the most modern, the fastest growing, the largest and, at 1700m, the highest. - Kenya
  

• Mombasa and around Kenya Travel Videos
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  Arriving in Mombasa by plane or train in the morning, there's ample time, if the heat doesn't fell you, to head straight out to the beaches. - Kenya
  

• Kenyas game parks Travel Videos
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  In these animal-rich national parks, the first realization of where you are - among real, uncaptured wildlife - is truly arresting. - Kenya
  

• Turkana Kenya Travel Videos
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  Lake Turkana stretches south for 250km from the Ethiopian border, down through Kenya's arid lands, bisecting the rocky deserts like a turquoise sickle. - Kenya
  

• Around the Aberdares Kenya Travel Videos
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  The Aberdare range , which peaks at 4001m, is less well known than Mount Kenya. - Kenya
  

• Mount Kenya National Park Travel Videos
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  $10 per person daily, camping $2 per night. - Kenya
  

• South Coast Kenya Travel Videos
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  A continuous strip of beach runs between Likoni and Msambweni, backed by palms and broken once or twice by small rivers. - Kenya