Desert

Kenya boasts of a major desert in Northern Kenya known as Chalbi. Located East of the famous Lake Turkana and spreading to the Ethiopian border, the magical desert is one of the hottest and most arid places in Kenya and covers an area of about 100,000 kilometre square.

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The lesser known desert in Kenya is Nyiri Desert, also called The Nyika, or Taru desert, south-central Kenya. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) east of Lake Magadi and near the northern border of Tanzania. The desert encompasses the Amboseli National Park, including the northern half of Lake Amboseli. Nairobi National Park lies at its northern extremity and Tsavo West National Park at its southern extremity. Parts of the desert have dense growths of small trees, many of them thorny and some of them poisonous. Game trails are marked among them. During the brief rainy season the trees have green leaves and flowers, but during the dry season they are bare and entwined by grayish green creepers and the hornlike fronds of prickly euphorbia. Water is scarce except in a few large springs and widely spaced riverbeds. Rocky hills, which overlie much older rocks, dot the plain. There are a few Baobab trees found in this desert, some as old as two thousand years, their gray boles often as much as 10 feet (3 m) in diameter. Wildlife includes elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, lesser kudu, and impala.