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Kenya in eight friendly questions about the essentials. No safari experience needed: everyone can join in, from nine to ninety.
Safari starter 0–3 · Savannah explorer 4–6 · True friend of Kenya 7–8
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Nairobi's name comes from Maasai words meaning 'place of cool waters', after a cold stream that flowed through the area. Only about 7 km from the city centre lies Nairobi National Park, where lions, giraffes and rhinos roam with the city's skyscrapers on the horizon.
Photo: Daniel Case, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Kenya's coast faces the Indian Ocean, with palm trees on the shore and coral reefs out at sea. At Diani Beach, south of Mombasa, about 17 km of white sand stretches along the water, and at low tide it is so shallow that you can wade far out and still see the sandy bottom.
Photo: Lebu Ayiga, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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The shield and spears are those of the Maasai, one of Kenya's best-known peoples. Around them, the black stripe stands for the people of Kenya, the green for the land and the thin white stripes for peace, and the flag was first raised in 1963, when Kenya became independent.
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Kenyan runners are especially strong over longer distances, from 800 metres all the way to the marathon, and many train around the town of Iten, about 2,400 metres above sea level. In 2019 Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge became the first person known to run the marathon distance in under two hours, in a special race in Vienna.
Photo: Denis Barthel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The equator divides the Earth into a northern and a southern half, and on the main road into the town of Nanyuki a sign marks the spot where it crosses. Visitors love to take a photo there with one foot in each half of the world, and on the equator day and night each last about 12 hours, all year round.
Photo: Christiaan Kooyman, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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This jumping dance is called adumu: the young warriors stand in a circle and take turns leaping into the air, keeping their bodies as straight and upright as they can. The others sing and chant along, and the dancers wear bright cloths called shúkàs and colourful bead jewellery.
Photo: Harvey Barrison from Massapequa, NY, USA, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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At times more than a million flamingos gather on these lakes, so many that the shore turns pink. Their colour comes from the tiny blue-green algae they eat, and they feed with their heads upside down, sieving the water through their beaks.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Swahili is spoken by tens of millions of people in East Africa and is one of Kenya's official languages, alongside English. Several of the film's makers visited Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park to study its landscapes, and the Pride Lands in the film are closely modelled on it.
Photo: Kwamikagami, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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