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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to the Mara! The word safari in Swahili men’s “long journey”; today the word is used more commonly to mean “bumpy journey through the African bush chasing wild animals with a camera”. Whichever definition you use, we are totally on safari! We met our driver […]