Kenya

A flat dusty savanna at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in southern Kenya, famous for large elephant herds, Kilimanjaro's massive bulk rising behind the acacia horizon, and sustained wildlife research programmes.

A shallow alkaline lake in the Central Rift Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its enormous flocks of flamingos, both black and white rhinos, and sweeping views from Baboon Cliff over the lake and surrounding woodland.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site on Lamu Island off Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, Lamu Old Town is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in East Africa, a medieval Swahili city whose coral-stone architecture and car-free streets have changed little for centuries.

Kenya's most famous wildlife reserve, a vast savanna plain bordering Tanzania's Serengeti, known for the annual great wildebeest migration and the highest density of lions in Africa.

Africa's second-highest mountain after Kilimanjaro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site centred on an extinct stratovolcano whosesnow-capped twin peaks of Batian and Nelion rise above five distinct ecological zones of forest, bamboo and alpine heath.

Kenya's capital and East Africa's largest city, a commercial hub of over four million people where glass towers rise beside historic neighbourhoods and Nairobi National Park sits on the city's edge.