Nyiri Desert

Nyiri Desert

also called  The Nyika, or Tarudesert,  

      desert, south-central Kenya. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) east of Lake Magadi and near the northern border of Tanzania. The desert encompasses the Amboseli National Park, including the northern half of Lake Amboseli. Nairobi National Park lies at its northern extremity and Tsavo West National Park at its southern extremity. Parts of the desert have dense growths of small trees, many of them thorny and some of them poisonous. Game trails are marked among them. During the brief rainy season the trees have green leaves and flowers, but during the dry season they are bare and entwined by grayish green creepers and the hornlike fronds of prickly euphorbia. Water is scarce except in a few large springs and widely spaced riverbeds. Rocky hills, which overlie much older rocks, dot the plain. baobab trees are found in the desert, some as old as two thousand years, their gray boles often as much as 10 feet (3 m) in diameter. Fauna includes elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, lesser kudu, and impala.

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