India
Ahwa: Ahwa is the town next to Bhenskatri.
Vansda National park: Near where Joe was born. His Warli mother met his Japanese father years before that.
Bhenskatri: This town in the southeast of present day Gujarat is close to where the hero was born. It is one of the towns that would fund the Purna Wildlife Sanctuary decades later.
Purna Wildlife Sanctuary: It is a tropical deciduous forest filled with a lot of wild animals, such as Asian elephants and Indian leopards.
Ireland
Ballybricken: Ballybricken is the town where Kate O’Connell and her siblings were born. Older sister Mara had to bottle feed her frequently as they departed for Nairobi in Kenya, when the former was a baby.
Japan
Nagasaki:
Kagoshima: Joe Moriyama’s father Shotaro came from this city, which was nearly destroyed by atomic bombs at the end of WW2.
Kenya
Aberdare National Park: North of Nairobi is Aberdare National Park, where the eponymous Aberdare fences protect a lot of bush elephants from being poached to death.
Borana and Lewa Wildlife Conservancies: A pair of Wildlife Conservancies which would become known as such in more recent times.
Cherangani Hills: Both Kapcherop and Tembu forests are within the Cherangani hills range.
Enonkishu Conservancy: Enonkishu is where the crazy Nazis were from.
Hells Gate and Mt Longonot National Parks: A pair of national parks north of Mt Suswa but south of Lake Naivasha and the Kingono Game Ranch.
Il Ngwesi Community Trust:
Kakamega Forest National Reserve: Kakamega Forest National Reserve contains Kenya’s only predominantly lowland rainforest, which is filled with blue monkeys and many other animals.
Katimok Provincial Forest: A forest reserve in the Mau Escarpment.
Kapcherop and Tembu Forests: A pair of forest fragments in the Cherangani Hills range.
Kerio Valley National Park:
Kiangombe Forest Reserve:
Kingono Game Ranch: Kingono Game Ranch is near lake Naivasha.
Lake Kisima:
Lake Naivasha: Lake Naivasha is in the northwest of Nairobi but southeast of Lake Nakuru.
Lake Nakuru National Park: Lake Nakuru National Park is in the northwest of Lake Naivasha.
Lekurruki Conservation Trust:
Leparua Community Conservancy:
Loita Forest: This Tropical Forest is in the Mau Escarpment.
Loita Hills: Loita hills is where the eponymous Loita Forest is. Its mystical inhabitants include cryptids like Dingoneks.
Losiolo Escarpment:
Lugari Forest:
Maasai Mara National Reserve: Close to the Serengeti National Park is its equally famous Kenyan equivalent known as the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Rhinos, lions, crocodiles and countless other animals live in this place.
Malava and Teresia Forests: A pair of tropical forest fragments where the blue guenons live.
Mara North Conservancy: Being in the northeast of the Maasai Mara Triangle, this conservancy is full of large animals like rhinos and leopards.
Mara Triangle: The famed Maasai Mara National Park is in the southwest of Kenya. It is also where Joe started his journey throughout the Kenyan hinterland (and some parts of two other East African nations).
Mau Escarpment: The Mau Escarpment, with its gorgeous forested mountains, has long been inhabited by Ogiek warriors, ladies and children for hundreds of years.
Mugie Wildlife Conservancy:
Mwea National Reserve:
Mt Kenya National Park: Mt Kenya National Park contains Kenya’s namesake mountain, which means the ‘Mountain of Whiteness’ in Kikuyu.
Mt Kipiri Forest Reserve:
Mt Suswa Conservancy: Mt Suswa is South
Naboisho Conservancy:
Nairobi National Park: What would become a National Park was a warriors’ hunting ground.
Ngare Dare Forest: This Tropical Forest Fragment is both close to and a part of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.
Ngong Hills Forest Reserve: Southwest of Nairobi National Park is the Ngong Hills where Maasai warriors and ladies live.
Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary: Northwest of what would become Nairobi National Park is a sanctuary where the nasty rock ogres live.
Ol Ari Nyiro Conservancy:
Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park: Ol Donyo Sabuk is in the Kyanzavi Division south of Nairobi. As with many Kenyan National parks, lions and various other animals live in this place. Its name means ‘large mountain’ in the Maasai language.
Ol Jogi Wildlife Conservancy:
Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
Rimpa Estates Wildlife Conservancy: Near the Ngong Hills is what would become the Rimpa Estates Wildlife Conservancy.
Ruma National Park: Ruma National Park is near Lake Victoria.
Rumuruti Forest:
Sosian Reserve:
South Nandi Forest: The South Nandi Forest is where the other cryptids live.
Southwestern Mau National Reserve:
Twilight Cave:
Tanzania
Grumeti Game Reserve:
Ikorongo Game Reserve:
Maswa Game Reserve:
Serengeti National Park: Next to Maswa Game Reserve is the Serengeti National Park. It has long been well known as a primary subject of many documentaries and fiction movies about rhinos and lions.
Uganda
Bwindi National Park: Being full of fruit bats, parrots and mountain gorillas, Bwindi is where Joe finally meets his father again. The small but complex ecosystem hosts a variety of wildlife, with some being more widespread than others.
Kitum Cave: It is a place where bush elephants mine the salts in its walls and where there’s a lot of bat guano in its deeper corners.
Mt Elgon National Park: Mt Elgon is the place that contains Kitum Cave.
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