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Kenya is often considered to be the whole African continent in microcosm. The country’s sweeping savannas, graceful acacia trees, endless sky, and profusion of wildlife easily stand for all of Africa — especially the Africa you dream of seeing.

One of nature’s greatest spectacles happens in Kenya: the Great Migration, when more than a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras thunder across the Maasai Mara, followed by a host of predators. A Maasai Mara safari will take you right into the heart of this great quest, as the animals look for greener pastures and find their way along crocodile-crowded rivers.

“There’s something about safari life,” Danish author Isak Dinesen — best known for her tale of living in Kenya, titled Out of Africa — wrote, “that makes you feel as if you’d drunk half a bottle of champagne, bubbling over with gratitude for being alive.”

And Kenya drips with the sort of megafauna that you can’t help but be thankful to witness: the “Big Five,” or buffaloes, elephants, leopards, lions, and rhinos. These animals are not called “big” because of their size. Game hunters of decades past numbered them because they were the most difficult to hunt and dangerous to shoot. Today, we still use the terminology, although we’re armed only with cameras.

In addition to the Maasai Mara, there are more than twenty other reserves and national parks in Kenya. For example, there is Tsavo East National Park, one of Kenya’s oldest and largest and considered one of the world’s last biodiversity strongholds. On a safari in Tsavo, you might even see large herds of pink elephants — their color caused by a layer of thin, red dust that has settled over their gray skin. At Lake Nakuru National Park, originally created to protect huge flocks of flamingoes and several other types of birds, unusual species abound, such as white rhinos, black-and-white colobus monkeys, and defassa waterbuck.

Witness such out-of-the-ordinary wildlife by Jeep or Land Rover, or choose among several Kenya adventure travel tours that offer tours by bicycle or horseback. Traveling by two wheels or by hoof gives you the intimacy of seeing animals without the hum of a vehicle’s motor. And while in Kenya, your accommodations can be as simple as a mobile, tented camp or as luxurious as a famed Kenya lodge.

See Africa, in a country. Visit Kenya.

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