Written by nofootprint on November 15, 2009
- AmboselliThe worst drought in Kenya since the 1960’s is being felt hardest in Amboselli. Everywhere we see dust devils across the barren land as we drive into the area. We are escorted across the area...
Written by nofootprint on November 13, 2009
- We leave our lodge at about 7 AM this morning and by 8:30AM we arrive at Mzima Springs . This is where the man-eating lions once roamed. Although human beings can be attacked by many...
Written by nofootprint on November 13, 2009
- We took the budget flight FLY540 from Zanzibar to Nairobi.We had heard the airport in Zanzibar could be a bit chaotic but we didn’t have any trouble at all. We were happy to discover...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- I’m pretty bored by television these days.The diet of predictable programmes means I’m pretty picky what I watch. While still having favourites I tend to lean towards history, travel and wildlife programmes. Over the years...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- There is something infinitely creepy about hyenas.I don’t know whether it is their sloping walk or the way their mouths drop open but there is something of the childs nightmare about them. They may not...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- The cheetah lay in the long grass panting.Not because of his recent exertions to bring down a teenage wildebeest but because he was getting his breath back from eating his fill. With a swollen belly...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- A colleague before I went to East Africa heard I was going and said "I love the Masai Mara – you get such a sense of natural life and death there.."I wasn’t sure what he...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- It’s easy to be blasé when not eyeing one of the big five and easy to see why everything else merges into the background when not viewing these ‘stars’ of the Mara.But if you look...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- In 2008 the migration number for wildebeest in the Masai Mara reached two million.That’s the biggest movement of animals on the globe. A number so huge that they turn the horizon black with their...
Written by actonsteve on February 15, 2009
- Within minutes of entering this vast reserve I encountered so much game my mouth dropped open in astonishment.Armies of wildebeest stretching to the horizon, elephants getting stressed with each other and bellowing their concern...
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