Kenya

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 9, 2026

Kenya is live on Travelog with one city, Nairobi, home to Nairobi National Park. Kenya has no UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nairobi itself, so this guide anchors the city to a government-verified superlative instead: Nairobi National Park, gazetted in 1946 and managed by Kenya Wildlife Service, is genuinely the only national park within a capital city anywhere in the world, sitting just 10 kilometers from the city center.

The genuinely surprising fact that Nairobi National Park has no elephants at all, despite hosting a famous elephant orphanage, is worth understanding before visiting, covered in full below.