Nesta página: Parque Nacional Sibiloi, Lago Turkana, Parque Nacional do Sul de Turkana (R), Reserva Nacional Marsabit (R), Reserva Nacional Losai...
Esta é a zona mais despovoada do Quênia e talvez a mais isolada. As tribos que lá habitam são as que têm resistido firmemente à modernização, como são os samburu, rendilhe, gabra, boram e somalíes. O percurso pode-se iniciar por Nyahururu ou as Cascatas Thomsom, com a terceira mais alta do país, 73 metros de queda. Maralal é a sede administrativa dos samburu e é o primeiro lugar onde se pode observar esta tribo parente dos masais. Conta com numerosas lojas, vários pequenos hotéis e a Casa Queniata, monumento histórico nacional por ter estado preso nela, em 1961, Jomo Kenyatta. A Reserva do Bosque Leroghi tem um aspecto um tanto fantasmal, pois as árvores estão no âmago e seus galhos nús a causa do musgo parasita. Horr sul é um remanso de vegetação em meio das planícies áridas de O Barta...
Parque Nacional Sibiloi (Sibiloi National Park), com 1.570km², é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services. Localiza-se ao lado do Lago Turkana.
Sibiloi National Park is one of the world's greatest treasures, where the proof of man's origins was found.
Foi originalmente estabelecido pelo Museu do Quênia, para proteger um sítio arqueológico e pré-histórico único.
Nos anos de 1960, Dr. Richard Leakey led an expedição to this remota área próxima da fronteira entre o Quênia e a Etiópia, e descobriu alguns of the earliest hominídeos traces ever at Koobi Fora, agora credited as some of the mois importante paleontological finds no século XX.
Nos anos de 1960 e 1970, mais de 160 fossil remains of early man incluindo o Homo habilis e o Homo erectus foram descobertos, placing man's origins to 3 milhões de anos. Over 4,000 fossil specimens of mammal and stone age artefacts have been discovered here.
The locations of the most important finds can be visited. Four particular treasures are: the shell of a giant tortoise dating back 3 milhões de anos, a set of jaws over 5ft. long from a crocodilo believed to have been over 45ft. in length and the extinct Behemoth, forebear of the elephant with massive tusks, both dating back 1,5 milhões de anos e o hominídeo (early man) finds.
Enquiries and applications for permission to visit this park should be addressed to the warden.
Localização do Lago Turkana
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Os Parques Nacionais da Região do Lago Turkana são sítios naturais, considerados Patrimônios Mundial, tambados pela UNESCO e ambos são administrados pelo Kenya Wildlife Services.
Central Island National Park – ilha central do lago, com 5km².
South Island National Park – ilha no sul do lago, com 39km².
O Lago Turkana é o maior lago do país e está localizado em uma região desértica, onde foram encontrados crânios do Homo habilis, em 1926, dando conta que os primeiros seres humanos do Planeta viveram há 2 milhões de anos neste lugar.
Nas regiões às margens desse lago, pode-se fazer safári montado em camelos...
O Lago Turkana recebe o apelido de “Mar de Jade” devido às águas de cor verde. Oferece um espetáculo muito formoso, pois contrasta com a paisagem desolada dos arredores.
Tem 250 quilômetros de longitude e suas águas contém enormes peixes de água doce como percas do Nilo, que chegam atingir com facilidade mais de 90 quilos, tilapias, peixes-tigre e peixes-tambor. Também conta com um grande número de crocodilos e numerosas serpentes.
São de interesse também Nyambuttom, caldeira situada ao sul do lago, o Monte Kulal, mágico segundo a lenda, Lonyangalani com um oássis de águas termais, South Ilhand, a maior das existentes no lago, a Baia de O Molo, onde moram os O Molo, a tribo mais pobre do país, a Cordilheira de Mathews ainda sem explorar totalmente, Marsabit com suas crateras cheias de vegetação e o Deserto de Chalbi com belas dunas de areia branca.
At Kenya's far Northern frontier lies one of the natural wonders of the world. Lake Turkana is a massive inland sea, the largest desert lake in the world - 6.405km². This single body of water is over 250 kilometres long- longer than the entire Kenyan coast.
It is widely known as the Jade Sea, because of the remarkable, almost incandescent, colour of its waters. After a long journey through the sweltering deserts and lava flows of Northern Kenya, the sight of this vast body of bright turquoise water comes as an unearthly, ethereal vision.
The Lake is a source of life for some of Kenya's most remote tribes. The Turkana, with ancestral ties to Uganda, live a semi-nomadic existence around the Lake.
The country's smallest tribe, the El Molo, live a hunter-gatherer existence on the shores, in villages of distinctive rounded reed huts.
Turkana has one of the longest living histories on earth, and recent fossil evidence unearthed at Koobi Fora has led to the Lake being referred to as 'The Cradle of Mankind'.
The site lies at the heart of the Sibiloi National Park, a place of stark beauty and prehistoric petrified forests. The Lake itself is a natural treasure, with the world's single largest crocodile population.
In Turkana these reptiles grow to record size, with some of the largest specimens found on remote windswept Central Island.
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Parque Nacional do Sul de Turkana (South Turkana National Park)
Aqui encontramos a subespécie girafa-reticulada.
Com 1.091Km², é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services.
Not only a traditional tourist circuit, this area is relatively known. It has a number of permanent rivers with woodland fringes and salty springs.
Wildlife is plentiful: elefante, girafa, búfalo, elande, oryx, impala, bushbuck, Greater Kudu, gazelas de Grant e Thompson, leão, leopardo, quepardo, hiena e jackal.
There are crocodilos nos rios e abundante espécies de pássaros much of which gathers on the bans do rio Kerio. There are no lodges or roads as yet within the Reserve.
Reserva Nacional Marsabit (Marsabit National Reserve)
Aqui encontramos a subespécie girafa-reticulada.
Marsabit National Reserve – Marsabit, Eastern Province – Kenya (http://www.kws.org/marsabit.html) – covers an area of 1500 km2 and consists of a forested mountain that rises like an oasis in the middle of the desert wilderness and is the only source of permanent surface of water in the region. The reserve has three spectacular crater lakes that provide habitat for a variety of birdlife. One of the lakes, Lake Paradise, is most scenic and famous from early films and writings of Martin Johnson and Vivien de Wattville. Marsabit reserve is also known because of large elephants like the famous Ahmed, an elephant that was provided with a 24 hour protection by a presidential order. Ahmed, who boasted some of the biggest tusks ever recorded, died at age 55, and his body was preserved and is now on display in Nairobi National Museum. Location: Northern Kenya, 560km north of Nairobi in Marsabit District of Eastern Province.
“This place is God's gift”
Com 1.500km², é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services. Marsabit is a forested mountain which rises spectacularly from the middle of a desert wilderness and provides the only source of permanent surface water in the region.
It has three beautiful crater lakes within a myriad of resident birdlife. The most scenic is Lake Paradise, made famous in the early films and writings of Martin Johnson and Vivien de Wattville.
Originally part of a huge Reserve which took in Shaba, Samburu, Buffalo Springs and the Losai National Reserve, the mountain was made a National Reserve in its own right. It is a nomadic rangeland and the droughtland of the Rendille herdsmen. Its name means 'Mountain of Cold'.
One of the area's special residents was Kenya's most famous elephant, Ahmed – decreed a protected animal by the Presidential Order of President Jomo Kenyatta in 1970.
Ahmed, who boasted some of the biggest tusks ever recorded, had a 24 hour armed guard. When Ahmed died, aged 55, his body was preserved and is now on display in Nairobi National Museum.
Other game to view includes: Greater Kudu, striped hyena, aard wolf, buffalo, bushbuck, leopard and caracal.
Accommodation is at the Marsabit lodge sited at the edge of the forest. Marsabit Game Lodge (selo).
Abaixo, mini-folhinha mostra um selo com elefantes no Lodge Game Marsabit!
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Reserva Nacional Losai (Losai National Reserve)
Um pouco mais ao sul de Marsabit está Losai, onde desconheço sobre girafas nesta reserva...
Com 1.806km², é administrado por Kenya Wildlife Services.
Aberto em janeiro de 1976. It is a wild, semi-desert landscape characterised by rocky hills, plains and river woodlands which snake along the seasonal rivers.
The scenic beauty is breathtaking; game to view includes elephant, Greater and Lesser Kudu, Gerenuk e Grants Gazelle. It is accessible at present during the dry season in four wheel-drive vehicles.
The fauna is similar to that of the drier areas of the Marsabit Reserve.
PÁGINA DE HOMENS PRÉ-HISTÓRICOS
PÁGINA SOBRE ARTE RUPESTRE DO QUÊNIA
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Última atualização: 07/11/2008. |
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