Lion-spotting at Lake Manyara National Park We had an awesome day exploring Lake Manyara National Park today! We saw monkeys, baboons, giraffe, hyenas, buffalo, water buck and even lions! Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s smallest national parks but one of its richest in terms […]
Border crossings – African style! We left Kenya behind this morning and crossed into Tanzania. We’re spending just over a week here and are really excited as neither of us has seen Tanzania before*. Our plan whilst we’re here is to visit some of Tanzania’s most famous national […]
Sunrise over Mt Kilimanjaro Sunrise this morning was just spectacular, and the all-day game drive we went on afterwards even better. We spent more than 8 hours driving through the Amboseli National Park in “safari mode”, “hunting” animals with the binoculars and “shooting” them with our camera. Elephants, […]
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 […]
Wandering Soles 