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Unusual Attractions in Kenya

Gedi Ruins

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Giraffe Manor

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Nairobi Animal Orphanage

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Giraffe Centre

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Diani Beach, Kenya

Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Kitum Cave

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Mara River Crossing

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Marafa Depression

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

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Giraffe Manor

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Diani Beach, Kenya

Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Carnivore Restaurant

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

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"Blacky on a starry night in Laikipia County, Kenya, July 2019. For a photograph like this to work, several elements must come together: The night has to be dark, with the moon below the horizon and no hint of twilight to lighten the sky; the stars need to be unobscured by clouds; and the animal has to be facing the right way."

A Photographer's Pursuit of the Elusive Black Panther

The challenge of capturing something almost impossible to see.

by Will Burrard-Lucas

A male giraffe, Lbarnoti, was rescued from flooded Kenyan rangeland using a custom barge and some patient training.

The Great Kenyan Giraffe Rescue

It took a custom-built barge and a whole lot of patience to get these rare animals off a shrinking island.

February 16, 2021

All toxic antics aside, the rats stick together in the wild, according to new research.

Meet the Rats That Wear Protective Poison Armor

They’ve got loyal relationships and a preference for toxic plants.

by Isaac Schultz

December 30, 2020

A swarm of locusts in Samburu county, approximately 186 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22.

How Climate Change Helped Spawn an East African Locust Crisis

Pictures from the ground show an insect storm of biblical proportions.

by Zoya Teirstein

January 30, 2020

This cow was the bait for the decoy, but was kept at a distance from the trap.

To Build a Better Mosquito Trap, First Put a Cow in a Tent

Then pipe its scent to a warm decoy.

by Samir S. Patel

October 15, 2018

Two former dung heaps, now beautiful grassy ovals.

Peculiar Pastures in Kenya Were Once Poop Patches

How old dung heaps become biodiversity hotspots.

September 5, 2018

Lothagam North Pillar Site, near Lake Turkana. The large gray circle in the foreground is the burial area.

Lessons From a 5,000-Year-Old Kenyan Cemetery

Logatham North Pillar Site is upending old assumptions about why people make monuments.

August 21, 2018

Researchers posit that Dr. Seuss's Lorax may be based on a real creature, the patas monkey.

Is Dr. Seuss's Lorax Real?

New research suggests the creature is based on a particular monkey that the writer encountered in Kenya.

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