ALEX WALTERS' FAVOURITE PLACE
“This quintessential African landscape of acaciaclad hills and vast grassy plains stretching to the ever-present Kilimanjaro epitomises Ernest Hemingway’s ‘green hills of Africa’. This volcanic region is home to Kenya’s last population of endemic black rhino, which favour the thicket vegetation of the many ancient lava flows. These lava tunnels, some of the longest in the world, also make perfect hideouts for the elusive leopard. The continent’s last big-tusker elephant roam freely here, moving within the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem. Gerenuk graze the lower branches of the woodland that blankets the hills’ lower slopes, while birds and butterflies are prolific in the mossy, misty forests that cling to the highest peaks.”