Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya, East Africa.

Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge in Tsavo West National Park, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, East Africa. Of its three volcanic cones, Mawenzi (left/east, 16,890 ft) and Shira are extinct, while the tallest cone, Kibo (right/west), last erupted 360,000 years ago and could erupt again. Kilimanjaro is the world's highest single free-standing mountain above sea level: 5,899 m or 19,354 ft (2014 measurement). It's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. Its rapidly shrinking glaciers and ice fields are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035. // The A109 road Nairobi-Mombasa and a railway divides Tsavo West National Park from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo remained the homeland for the Orma and Maasai pastoralists and Waata hunter-gatherers until 1948, when it was gazetted a national park. Indigenous populations were relocated to Voi and Mtito Andei and other areas within the nearby Taita Hills. Following Kenyan independence in 1963, hunting was banned in the park and management of Tsavo was turned over to the authority that eventually became the Kenya Wildlife Service. Tsavo currently attracts photo-tourists from all over the world interested in experiencing the vastness of the wilderness and incredible terrain.

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Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge in Tsavo West National Park, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, East Africa. Of its three volcanic cones, Mawenzi (left/east, 16,890 ft) and Shira are extinct, while the tallest cone, Kibo (right/west), last erupted 360,000 years ago and could erupt again. Kilimanjaro is the world's highest single free-standing mountain above sea level: 5,899 m or 19,354 ft (2014 measurement). It's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. Its rapidly shrinking glaciers and ice fields are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035. // The A109 road Nairobi-Mombasa and a railway divides Tsavo West National Park from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo remained the homeland for the Orma and Maasai pastoralists and Waata hunter-gatherers until 1948, when it was gazetted a national park. Indigenous populations were relocated to Voi and Mtito Andei and other areas within the nearby Taita Hills. Following Kenyan independence in 1963, hunting was banned in the park and management of Tsavo was turned over to the authority that eventually became the Kenya Wildlife Service. Tsavo currently attracts photo-tourists from all over the world interested in experiencing the vastness of the wilderness and incredible terrain.