Its always a treat to see Mt. Kilimanjaro. Imagine our delight at seeing it  bathed in moonlight with stars twinkling above. Magic! We were lucky,  the mountain came out from behind the cloud on most days that we were camped in Amboseli. One evening we enjoyed a traditional dance put on for us by the […]
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Okovango Delta, Botswana
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On a safari in Zambia recently, Ninian and our guests watched a pride of lionesses hunting buffalo. With dust billowing and the air filled with the sound of pounding hooves, the lionesses  drove the buffalo towards the car. and with immaculate team work brought it down only afew feet away.
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The southern serengeti was looking finer than it has in years. The rains had been fantastic  and the short grass plains were green and covered by hundreds of thousands of animals. Here and there,  there were carpets of white, yellow and pink flowers. At times it looked like the zebra were standing in a fresh […]
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Tsavo is one of the oldest parks in Kenya and one of the largest in the world!  The east of the park is a vast wilderness of arid bush, broken by the glimmering copper of the Galana River with its lush green banks. Black lava flows reach fingerlike off the Yatta plateau. Cooling swamps, Mzima Springs […]
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Ninian has been camping in the  Mara for five nights with our guests. They saw  a total of seven individual leopards in this time, including a mama with cubs. The migration has begun.  This herd of early arrivals was at least 10,000 strong. All this long grass will soon be mowed short by all the […]
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The migration this year began earlier than usual and the herds have waxed and waned over the past few months. Several large rains storms recently have caused the animals to change direction resulting in large numbers in the Mara. Â Three days ago Ninian and our guests found huge herds of wildebbest and zebra gathering to […]
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Keen fishermen,  inspired by Ninian’s fishing tales, our guests were eager to try fishing the huge trout in the high-altitude lakes of Mount Kenya. The mountain is just over 17,000 feet high, wild and beautiful. The most comfortable way to get there is by Helicopter. Many of the “blue tarns†are at over 11,000 feet, […]
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After a wonderful visit to Lewa Downs, Ninian and our guests headed to Tanzania. Their first stop was Lake Manyara for a night before driving to the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater, ( a UNESCO World Heritage site)Â at the eastern edge of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania. The crater is part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, […]
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