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Location: Samburu National Park
Much of Africa is desert and wasteland, an onerous but natural progression of the Sahara southwards and the Kalahari and Namib northwards. Only 14% of Kenya’s land is arable, the rest exactly like the Great Northern Frontier. But at the edge of the arable land and the encroaching desert, there is striking beauty and challenges to survival that are being won in incredible ways. At Samburu, a river flowing off the Aberdare runs through this edge of the desert to die shortly thereafter in a miserable swamp. But at this point the river brings to life all the latent plants and flowers that once reigned supreme, and the beauty is unmatched. Huge doum palms tower into the blue sky. Dense palmetto forests line the river embankments, and a huge variety of acacia, gum and fig trees demarcate the river on its short journey to oblivion. All this condensed life attracts enormous amounts of big game including massive families of elephant. Some animals over the centuries has speciated into rare game:
o Africa’s most beautiful giraffe, the reticulated giraffe, is found only here.
o The rare and solitary Grevy’s zebra is confined to this area.
o Gerenuk, a strange long-necked antelope that never drinks after its stops suckling, lives in Samburu.
And the bird life is spectacular, including the golden-breasted starling and crimson-breasted shrike. In fact, there are more than 350 species of bird in this small area which is about one-hundredth the size of the Serengeti system, and which claims around the same number of bird species.