Farewell Lake Nakuru, hello Amboseli National Park! We left Lake Nakuru National Park early this morning and drove all the way across Kenya, through Nairobi, to Amboseli National Park. Famous for its populations of elephants, Amboseli is the second most visited national park in Kenya (aftr Maasai Mara) […]
Africa’s most endangered large mammal We awoke this morning to a fresh pot of Kenyan coffee (delivered to our tent by a smiling waiter – how cool is that?!), a beautiful sunrise and a RHINO AT OUR BACK FENCE! We didn’t actually see any rhino yesterday (much to our […]
Flamingos at Lake Nakuru We left the plains of Maasai Mara today and drove North to Lake Nakuru National Park. Famous for its resident population of pink and white flamingos, Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley’s highly alkaline “soda lakes”. The area around the lake has […]
Animals of Maasai Mara We spent our day driving through Maasai Mara animal spotting today. It was awesome fun, scouring the plains for signs of animal life (great and small) and capturing their best poses with our cameras. We were out and about for over 10 hours, from […]
Soaring above the action What a day! We survived an unseasonable December flood in the Maasai Mara, got up at 4:00am to go hot air ballooning over the African savannah, saw a whole bunch of dead cows and survived breakfast out in the African bush. Definitely a memorable […]