I BET YOU DID NOT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are many facts about Kenya that I bet you did not know. Here are just a few:

• That Sibiloi National Park in Kenya is believed to be the cradle of mankind and the biblical ''Garden of  Eden"

• The official color of the maasai - the indigenous semi-nomadic tribe located in Kenya and Nothern Tanzania - is red? They will always be wearing something of this color no matter how little.

• The world's oldest primary school pupil is Kimani Nganga Maruge and he's 88 years old? Mr. Maruge, who was deprived the opportunity of going to school as a child, begun school in January 2004 when primary education was declared free in Kenya. He attends Kapkenduiya Primary School in Eldoret, which two of his grand children also attend.

•  Tigers are Lions are close relatives. Without their coats, lion and tiger bodies are so similar that only experts can tell them apart?

• Sidney Pollaks 'OUT  OF AFRICA' starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford was filmed partly in the Maasai National Reserve? 

• That in November 2006, the annual migration of the wildebeests was named as the seventh wonder of the world?

• Meru is where the world famous lioness, Elsa, of BORN FREE fame was returned to the world in 1950?

• One of the world's rarest sights is the equatorial snow located at the peak of Mt. Kenya?

• Henry Rider Haggard's well known novel 'Kings Solomon's Mines' was inspired by the Mt. Elgon Caves, located in Mount Elgon in Western Kenya?

• Mount Kenya was the second highest peak in Africa to be discovered by Europeans. It was first seen by Dr. Ludwig Krapf.

• Kenya's main port is situated at Mombasa, an island that shelters the deepest natural harbour in Africa, and is the best equipped and most modern port on the East African Coast?

• That Kenya's Mombasa port facilities are important not only to the county's own economy but also to landlocked Uganda,Rwanda, Burundi, and to Eastern Zaire and Southern Sudan, whose freight trade uses the port?