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TOP TOURISM ATTRACTIONS IN KISUMU

Attractions

Attractions in the city include Kibuye Market, the Kisumu Museum, an impala sanctuary, a bird sanctuary, Hippo Point, and the nearby Kit Mikaye and Ndere Island National Park.

Kisumu Museum

File:Kisumu Guest House.jpg Kisumu Museum, established in 1980, has a series of outdoor pavilions.

Some of the pavilions contain live animals.

For example, one pavilion contains numerous aquaria with a wide variety of fish from Lake Victoria, along with explanatory posters.

Another pavilion contains terrarium containing mambas, spitting cobras, puff adders and other venomous Kenyan snakes.

Additionally, out of doors, the museum has a few additional exhibits, including a snake pit and a crocodile container.

Other pavilions show weaponry, jewellery, farm tools and other artifacts made by the various peoples of the Nyanza Province.

Additionally, there are exhibits of stuffed animals, birds and fish.

One pavilion houses the prehistoric TARA rock art, which was removed for its own protection to the museum after it was defaced by graffiti in its original location.

The museum's most important and largest exhibition is the UNESCO-sponsored Ber-gi-dala.

This is a full-scale recreation of a traditional Luo homestead.

Ber-gi-dala consists of the home, granaries and livestock corrals of an imaginary Luo man as well as the homes of each of his three wives, and his eldest son.

Through signs and taped programs in both Luo and English, the exhibition also explains the origins of the Luo people, their migration to western Kenya, traditional healing plants, and the process of establishing a new home.

Kisumu Impala Sanctuary

Kisumu is location of the Kisumu Impala Sanctuary. Measuring just 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), the sanctuary is one of Kenya's smallest wildlife preserves.

As its name suggests, it is home to a herd of impala. Some hippos, as well as many reptiles and birds are also present.

Additionally, several caged baboons and leopards who faced difficulties of one sort or the other in the wild are held in cages there.

Over 115 different species of birds live there.

Hippo Point

Hippo Point is a 600 acres (240 ha) viewing area on Lake Victoria.

Despite its name, it is better known as a viewing point for its unobstructed sunsets over the lake than for its occasional hippos.

Hippo point is near the village of Dunga, a few kilometres SW of the town. The village also has a fishing port and a camping site.

Kit Mikayi

Kit Mikayi, a large rock with three rocks on top, and is located off Kisumu Bondo Road towards Bondo.

Kit-mikayi means “Stones of the first wife” or “First Wife Rocks” in Dholuo, the Luo language.

It is a weeping rock; it is believed that Mikayi (literally, "the first wife") went up the hill to the stones when her husband took a second wife, and has been weeping ever since.

It has become a popular local pilgrimage site for adherents of the Legio Maria sect who come to the rock to pray and fast for several weeks at a time.

Many of Kenya's main tourist attractions can be found in the great outdoors, such as its enticing beaches, although the real stars of the show are most likely to be animals.

Indeed, Kenya is one of the best places in Africa to see wildlife in abundance.

While you may want to see all the tourist attractions in this area, stand warned that the following attractions shouldn’t be missed.

OTHER KENYA TOP TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

The Masai Mara If you want to see the 'big five' in one morning, Masai Mara in western Kenya is the place to be.

Lamu Lamu is one of Kenya's oldest towns, settled by the Swahili about 700 years ago.

Lake Nakuru National Park Lake Nakuru is famous for its huge flocks offlamingos that enjoy the alkaline waters of this shallow soda lake.

Mount Kenya Mount Kenya is Africa's second highest peak.

Amboseli National Park Amboseli is a popular park with breathtaking views of Mount Kilimanjaro (in Tanzania).

Lake Turkana The lunar landscape around Lake Turkana, a northern Rift Valley lake in Kenya, is a true spectacle.).

Tsavo National ParkTsavo National Park is split into Tsavo East and Tsavo West. The Tsavo parks are vast and the landscape is wild.

Malindi and Lamu Malindi is a small town, but the beaches that surround it make it one of Kenya's top attractions.

Samburu, Shaba and Buffalo Springs National Reserves Samburu, Shaba and Buffalo Springs are 3 Reserves bordering one another in the dry landscape of North Central Kenya




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