Kenya is in the heart of African safari country and no Tarzan movie can prepare you for Kenya's wilderness. I chose Kenya because someday I want to go on a safari and I thought that by researching Kenya I would learn a little more about safaris. The major tourist attractions in Kenya are the safaris. No other country contains a greater variety of birds and animals than Kenya, home of the Safari. Kenya has about eleven different types of safaris: Wildlife Safaris, Orinthological Safaris/Bird Watching, Camel Safaris, Hot Air Balloon Safaris, Horse Riding Safaris, Cycle and Trekking Safaris, Golf Safaris, Camping Safaris, Sport Fishing, Conference and Business Tourism, Mountaineering and Walking Trails, and Safari Circuits. There are so many different types of safaris that deciding how to take a safari, available on foot, by bicycle, by 4 wheel drive, by camel, by horse, by ox wagon, by balloon or by classical aerial safari, is sometimes a difficult decision. If you plan on going to Kenya and staying for less than thirty days, then a visa is not required. However, if u plan on a longer stay, you can get a visa before your trip or when you enter Kenya. Tourist visas require one application form, two passport photos, an onward or return ticket and the required fifty-dollar fee. Immunization for Yellow fever is recommended and Anti-malarial pills are recommended for those people who are traveling to the coastal regions of Kenya.
             Anthropological discoveries indicate that humans, perhaps the first on earth, probably inhabited southern Kenya some 2 million years ago. In the Kenya highlands farming and domestic herds can be dated to 1000 BC Arab traders settled on the coast by the 8th cent. AD, establishing several city-states. The Portuguese, who first visited the Kenya coast in 1498, gained control of much of it but were expelled by Arabs in 1729. In 1886, under a British-German agreement on spheres of influence in East A
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