Kenya’s darkest sky: Why Samburu is a stargazer’s heaven

Dinner and stargazing setup at Sopa Lodge Samburu.

Photo credit: Pool

Kimani Wa Nyoike remembers the first time he saw Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn lined up from Samburu in northern Kenya.

Saturn’s rings were particularly a spectacle. “It was so clear, I almost felt like I could reach out and touch them,” says the astronomer and founder of Leo Sky Africa, an organisation that educated communities across Africa on astronomy.

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