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The Best Attractions In Kapenguria

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Kapenguria Museum

Treasures of Africa Museum

Saiwa Swamp National Park

Kitale Museum

Kitale Nature Conservancy

Kapenguria is a town lying north east of Kitale on the A1 road in Kenya. Kapenguria is capital of the West Pokot County. Kapenguria forms a municipality with an urban population of 13,000 and a total population of 56,000 . Kapenguria municipality has seven wards . All of them belong to Kapenguria Constituency, which has a total of 23 wards, the remaining 15 are located within other local authorities.Lying near the Saiwa Swamp National Park, Kapenguria is home to the Kapenguria museum in the prison where Jomo Kenyatta was incarcerated in 1953 for his alleged role in the Mau Mau Rebellion. It is the home of Tegla Loroupe, world-record-holder in the marat...
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The Best Attractions In Kapenguria

1. Kapenguria Museum Kapenguria
Kapenguria is a town lying north east of Kitale on the A1 road in Kenya. Kapenguria is capital of the West Pokot County. Kapenguria forms a municipality with an urban population of 13,000 and a total population of 56,000 . Kapenguria municipality has seven wards . All of them belong to Kapenguria Constituency, which has a total of 23 wards, the remaining 15 are located within other local authorities.Lying near the Saiwa Swamp National Park, Kapenguria is home to the Kapenguria museum in the prison where Jomo Kenyatta was incarcerated in 1953 for his alleged role in the Mau Mau Rebellion. It is the home of Tegla Loroupe, world-record-holder in the marathon, half-marathon, 20,000-meter, 15,000-meter and 10,000-meter races. She holds annual Peace Race races here, to bring peace among the eigh...
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2. Kitale Museum Kitale
Kitale is an agricultural town in northern rift valley Kenya situated between Mount Elgon and the Cherangani Hills at an elevation of around 1,900 metres . Its population is 106,187 as of 2009.. Kitale is the capital town of Trans Nzoia County. The National Museum of Western Kenya is located at Kitale. It is a natural history museum and was originally created by Lt Col. Hugh Stoneham in 1926. Just next to the museum there is a demonstration farm with agroforestry practices run by a Swedish non-governmental organisation called Vi Agroforestry.
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3. Treasures of Africa Museum Kitale
4. Saiwa Swamp National Park Kitale
Saiwa Swamp National Park is located near Kitale, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. It is the smallest national park in Kenya, only 3 km², and was created as habitat for the Sitatunga, a rare aquatic antelope. There are a variety of trees at the national park.
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5. Kitale Nature Conservancy Kitale

Kapenguria Videos

West Pokot urged to promote local tourism, exploit hidden treasure

The county of West Pokot has been urged to exploit the hidden treasure in its culture and breath taking scenery all across the highland and lowland.

Turkana road trip

Our crew of 13 to Lodwar, Turkana County for a live shoot the next day but missed our flight. the Live shoot was to start at 10am the following morning. What resulted was a race against time. The journey was 690kms of rough road and bad challenging weather.

Turkana Kenya

Spending some scouting time with Lennon Barnard around Lokichar, Turkana area in Kenya.

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