I've been recommended this place in Mount Kenya.

Quoted: The Mountain Lodge Experience The only ‘tree hotel’ ever to be built on the slopes of Kenya’s legendary Mount Kenya, Mountain Lodge offers a matchless ...

Quoted: MALINDI, Kenya (AP) -- A river swollen by heavy rains overflowed its banks, forcing at least 10,000 people to flee their homes and destroying thatched mud huts and crops in impoverished villages, a senior official said Tuesday.

This is good news. I had no idea that ivory was still being smuggled.

Quoted: The Kenya Wildlife Service says it has broken up a syndicate dealing in ivory and other illegal animal products.

My Kenyan cousin will be Dotting a bunch of recommendations on things to see in East Africa. Apparently, the Serengeti in Tanzania is a better place to go for a safari... a lot better than Masai Mara in Kenya.

I wonder if you can easily drive from Nairobi?

I'm looking forward to your other Dots, J!

This is really sad.

Quoted: "Unfortunately their screams could have been confused with the excited shouts of protesters," a student on the march told Kenya's East African Standard newspaper.

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Quoted: NAIVASHA, Kenya, (Reuters) -- East Africa's long-running drought has devastated livestock and wildlife in Kenya, but now a spurt of rains is killing animals too.

Touristy map of Kenya. Haven't been in 10+ years, but next time I go I'd like to visit some of the following places:

- Mt Kenya National Park
- Masai Mara National Reserve (apparently the best game reserve in the country)
- Lake Nakuru (best place to see pink flamingos)
- Kisumu
- Mombasa

Quoted: Map of Kenya in Eastern Africa

Katie, I had no idea you had some Kenya in you! My parents were raised in Nairobi, so I have been to Kenya multiple times... such good memories.

I don't know much about Ayub Ogada, but I definitely want to listen to this album now!

P.S: I found this dot by clicking on the "World" button. Thanks for Dotting!

Quoted: Kenya's government is outraged by an offer of food aid from a New Zealand dog food manufacturer to help the 4m people hit by drought.