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if you are planning a game safari or simply to visit magnificent Kenyan Parks you need excellent waypoints that you can use on your GPS to guide you. Kenya Game national park and reserve maps are not always accurate and it is easy to get lost.

Kenyalogy ( A kenyan travel Website) and a guy called Javier Yanes, teamed up and collected waypoints for Kenyans. These two were kind enough and released the valuable data free of charge.(May the lord continue to bless their work.)

On the website Kenyalogy you will find hundreds of free waypoints for you to upload to your handheld mapping GPS device.

They have nearly 500 GPS waypoints of Kenya, which you can download in a single file or by regions. Each compressed zip file contains three files: the waypoints (.csv format), the notes describing them (.xls format) and a ‘readme’ file (.txt format). Waypoints are for popular parks, Aberdare, Mount Kenya, laikipia, Amboseli, Tsavo, Shimba Hills, Maasai Mara, Nairobi National Park, Samburu, Meru etc. Lake Bogoria, Naivasha, Nakuru and Baringo.

ALL KENYA WAYPOINTS (495 waypoints)	GPSKenya.zip (36 KB)
Central Highlands: Aberdares, Mt. Kenya, Laikipia (65 waypoints)	GPSAber.zip (13 KB)
Eastern Highlands: Amboseli and Tsavo (68 waypoints)	GPSAmbo.zip (13 KB)
Coast and Shimba Hills (29 waypoints)	GPSCoast.zip (11 KB)
Rift lakes: Naivasha, Nakuru, Bogoria, Baringo (75 waypoints)	GPSRift.zip (13 KB)
Masai Mara (102 waypoints)	GPSMara.zip (14 KB)
Meru (59 waypoints)	GPSMeru.zip (13 KB)
Nairobi city and national park (63 waypoints)	GPSNbi.zip (12 KB)
Samburu and Buffalo Springs (54 waypoints)	GPSSamb.zip (12 KB)
Printable list of all waypoints and their descriptions

The general format of descriptions is as follows: Isiolo A2 – Xing Samburu/Wajir B9. This means that the waypoint was marked at a crossroads on road A2 to Samburu at Isiolo. The junction is with road B9, which branches to the right side (the slash divides both directions, left/right) and heads for Wajir.

The waypoints were collected in 2001-2002 using a Garmin GPS 12.

How to Transfer the waypoints from computer to your GPS devices.

After downloading the waypoints they will need to be uploaded to your device. Read how to transfer waypoints from my pc to my GPS.

Terms of Use

The waypoints, the files containing them and the helper files belong to Kenyalogy and Javier Yanes. The author does not guarantee the accuracy of data nor assumes any liability for any damage that could arise upon using them. Since the descriptive notes were written by hand on site, some waypoints could be wrongly noted or duplicated.

The waypoints may be distributed freely as long as the ‘readme’ file is kept intact and is distributed along with any and each of the data files. Any commercial use of the data without express consent of the author is strictly forbidden.

The owners kindly request you to share your waypoints with them. If you collect your own waypoints while travelling in Kenya, get in touch at Contact Kenyology.

If you bought a a Garmin GPS with preloaded maps for East Africa (Kenya, Uganda,, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) you are entitled to a free first time update.

Garmin provide a Free 90-day Map Update Guarantee whereby you can update the maps on your sat-nav to the latest version free of charge. The 90 days start from the date that your sat-nav first acquires a satellite fix.

The reason for this guarantee is that none of the sat-navs available in Kenyan shops or online stores contain the latest map information. The reason is simple. Map updates are released approximately once every 3 months while the manufacturing cycle from device production through distribution to stores is longer. Typically the maps preloaded onto a sat-nav can be between 6-24 months old. Availing of the free map update is therefore a must.

To avail of the free map update, you go to the Garmin website, set up an account for yourself under ‘myGarmin’ and register your device. Once you register the sat-nav you will be advised that an update is available.

Terms and Condition of Free Update

From Garmin Website

“You will qualify for the free map update(s) only if you connect your device to your computer and then visit www.garmin.com/mapupdates either (i) prior to first using your device, or (ii) within 90 days of first acquiring satellites while driving with your device (the “First Satellite Fix”). If you qualify under one of these two conditions, then you will be entitled to receive one or more free map update(s) during the 90-day period following the date you connected your device to your computer and visited www.garmin.com/mapupdates or the First Satellite Fix date. “

To Check whether your new Garmin GPS is entitled to a free update go to https://my.garmin.com/maps/nuMaps.htm Enter your product serial number and wait for instructions.