The Rift Valley opens in one enormous sweep of sky and grass, and then your eyes drop to the small things, like a hand-painted shop sign, a stall stacked with fruit, a child waving from a school gate. From a warm ocean shore to cool green highlands and a dry north, Kenya holds both scales at once.
Weather follows the land, hot and humid on the coast, mild in the highlands and dry in the north. Wildebeest cross the plains in the middle of the year. A Local Friend tells you when to go early and when to linger, so a sunrise start still leaves time for the view.
