Lake Jipe is a beautiful lake teeming with hippo, elephant and birdlife. The ‘red’ elephants of Tsavo since Jipe is at the southern boarder of the Tsavo West National Park. The Lake is located on the Kenya Tanzania boundary in Taita Taveta district, the 30 sq km. Lake Jipe is sandwiched between the Pare Mountains and Kilimanjaro this small lake [30 km sq] straddles the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Lake Jipe has many water birds and is one of the few places in East Africa that the Lesser Jacana and Purple Gallinule are common. Madagascar Squacco Herron, Black Herron, African Darter and African Skimmer are also often seen here. Other wildlife seen here are Hippopotamus, Otters, crocodiles, waterbucks and elephants. The northern half of the lake is in Kenya in the Tsavo West National Park. Tsavo West is famed for its huge elephant population
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