Category: Africa
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Favourite Parks – Aberdare National Park – Nairobi, Kenya

The Park is a protected area in the Aberdare Mountain Range in central Kenya located east of the East African Rift Valley covering the higher areas and the Aberdare Salient to the east. It is marked by V-shaped valleys bisected by streams, rivers, and waterfalls, moors, bamboo and forests.
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Fantastic Rocks and Where to Find Them – Polyliths

There are many thousands of stone megaliths discovered in almost every country in Europe, from Scotland to Italy. Based on the analysis, the first megaliths were typically found in a coastal region or on islands. They only emerged inland at a much later date, suggesting that the practice initially developed on coastal areas. This is…
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Amboseli or Hell’s Gate National Park – Kenya

Hell’s Gate National Park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs. Once believed to be a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It received the name “Hell’s Gate” by explorers Fisher and Thomson in 1883 for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the outlet of…

