Masai Mara
Kenya's best-known reserve, in Narok County, where the wildebeest migration crosses the Mara River each year and lion and cheetah sightings are a near-daily event.
Destinations
Eight places across Kenya, from the Mara's open plains to the Diani coast, each one part of the ground Nissa guides.
Amboseli
A dry-country park in Kajiado County, under the shadow of Kilimanjaro, where swamps fed from the mountain draw some of Africa's largest elephant herds into the open.
Samburu
A dry, northern reserve along the Ewaso Ng'iro river, home to species you won't find on the southern safari circuit, from Grevy's zebra to gerenuk.
Ol Pejeta
A fenced, predator-friendly conservancy in Laikipia and the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, also home to the world's last two northern white rhino.
Tsavo
Kenya's largest protected area, split into Tsavo East and Tsavo West, known for red-dust elephants and the spring-fed pools of Mzima Springs.
Laikipia
A high plateau of private and community conservancies, including Borana and Lewa, run for rhino conservation and known for walking and horseback safaris with Mount Kenya on the horizon.
Mount Kenya
Africa's second-highest peak, climbed via the Sirimon, Chogoria or Naro Moru routes to Point Lenana, a trekking summit at 4,985 metres that needs no technical climbing gear.
Diani
A south-coast beach below Mombasa, white sand backed by palm groves and a coral reef offshore, the classic way to close out a Kenya safari.