Few people know about the famous little country of Kenya.

Why?

Those that don't know about Kenya of course do not know about the equator.

Why again may I ask?

Kenya is spat on the equator. Look at this map of Kenya showing the equator slicing it into two halves, a north and a south.

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The Equator passes about 4 miles south of the town Nanyuki in Laikipia County, Kenya. An equator is an imaginary line around the middle earth. The equator is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole at '0' degrees latitude. The equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere.Sep 19, 2013Kenya is among only 13 countries in the world that the equator passes through and with some of the most impressive landscapes and wildlife on earth

The Equator passes through Nanyuki Kenya | Chic African Culture

It is unbelievable!

Did you know you can safari in Kenya with one foot on the northern hemisphere and the other on the southern hemisphere?

Unimaginable but fatually true!

When the equator passes through Kenya, you have a rare chance to visit both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

Imagine this an be on the same safari. You won't believe that this can also be on the same day, would you?

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When Kenya promises travellers an all-encompassing trip, they had better believe it!

Kenya is one of the only 13 countries in the world that can boast the equator passes through them. Additionally, Kenya has many of the most impressive landscapes and wildlife on earth!

You will not even start to imagine why it is said that each individual should visit Kenya once in their lifetime.

Believe it or not....but...

Kenya has landscapes galore.

Ice cap mountains and ranges...

Rift Valley...an extensive formation of faults and different rock movements stretching into Kenya's Lake Turkana (or Lake Rudolf) through Lake Naivasha right into Tanzania...

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Gorges, highlands and plains...that ensconced the White Highlands that were so vogue during the colonial times where Europeans congregated and concetrated to make everythin "Out of Africa" leaving everything in Africa!

Not one, but several clean white sandy beaches: Diani, Lamu, Watamu, Mombasa...to tantalize your water sports apetite...

The Tana River meanders across the plains from the Kenyan Highlands into the Indian Ocean to warp your thoughts of adventure...

Kenya sandwiches Lake Rudolf and the Chalbi Desert just to delight you...

Kenya has the only city (Nairobi) in the world with a national park...

In Kenya, we do not distinguish climate with temperatures! Our measure is whether the rain was short or a down pour. This is why we have short rains and long rains... just holler to know the best time to vvisit what region of Kenya.

Surprised, do not assume the rains are a ccommodation, seek advice on rain schedules from yours truly...

But did you know this?

After Lake Superior, then Lake Victoria...and...

Kenya is among the 2 out of the 13 countries transpassed by the equator that is next to the second largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Victoria, named after non other than Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

Queen Elizabeth transmogrified from a princess to a queen in Kenya's Treetops Lodge. That's not your idea of "From a Jack to King" kinda things cause this factual event happent in 1952,

Ask her Majesty! Why? But check Joseph Kanyi photo of the Queens bedroom....at only US800?

The Queen’s suite at Treetops hotel. This is the room where the Queen stayed on her honeymoon in 1952. Photo/Joseph Kanyi

"For the first tme in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience she climbd down from the tree next day a Queen." - Jim Corbett

Few people will tell you who Jim was. naturalist Jim Corbett (Corbett National Park, India) lived in a cottage at the Outspan previously occupied by Lord Baden-Powell.

Even fewer will start guessing why Treetops in Aberdare National Park is a special!

Why special you ask?

Come on, the Queen has stayed in a fair share of palaces, castles and official residences in more than 120 countries. But there's only one hotel she beame a Queen. Is that hotel peanuts in your language? Nope!

The Queen at Treetops: Africa's royal safari lodges

That's Treetop Lodge, Nyeri in Kenya, the small country across the equator. A magnate for celebrities and adbenturers...

Out of your top 10 celebs, how many have not visited Kenya? Give them a tweet today and let them explain why...!

It's not the money.

It's not the work, work, work that makes any "J" a dull sod. My guess, dull non-adventurous minds are always a puzzle even to me, yours truly...

Get the itch and forget the buzz. Kenya is not about feelings but the emotion of tuning with nature, where it all started, the land of our ancestors.

Kenya is the place no one wants to be messed up with they get there...come and register...you might even boast about it and proclaim to the world...

I was in Kenya...and you will become another respectable human being in your community!

In fact from January 2018, we will award visitors to Kenya with a T2K awards - he! he! he! Only 12 available...

Why I love Kenya