tourism-kenya
Kenya Tourism Guide
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008The tourist industry as become a keystone of Kenya’s economy, acquiring the role of first national industry, which makes bigger profits compared to coffee export and is the major source of foreign exchange. Its contribution to GDP of 12% renders it the third most important productive industry. Kenya gets one million tourists every year, with […]
Eastern Highlands Nyika
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008The large and arid region, which goes up to the east of the Highlands comprises of provinces like the Eastern, Northeastern and part of the Coast province. This plateau, descending smoothly to the land that skirts the Indian Ocean, shows a smooth orography, only interfered with by isolated low hill assemblies. Their main geographical characterises […]
Lake Victoria Basin Nyanza Kenya
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008The Lake Victoria basin is an elevated tract of comparatively flat land in the Southwestern end of the country, in the administrative region corresponding to the Nyanza (Lake in Swahili) and Western provinces. The elevated tract continues northward to the Cherangani Hills at the Northeast, in the western edge of the Rift valley, and to […]
Kenya Rift Valley and Highlands
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Rift valley and highlands:
The Rift valley which is a great African fault, is an enormous scar which traverses from North to South via the eastern half of Africa and the middle East.
Along its huge depression, the earth is patched with extinct or inactive volcanoes alternating with tectonic lakes.
From the Turkana or Rudolf which is in […]
Kenya Geography, Tourism in Kenya
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Kenya is made up of four various geographic regions.
§ Rift valley and highlands
§ Kenya’s coast
§ Lake Victoria basin (Nyanza)
§ Eastern Highlands (Nyika), N and NE
Kenya has got a total, area of 582,600km2. The highest points being Peak Batian, Mount Kenya with 5,199m (second […]