Tag: Buffalo Springs
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Buffalo Springs: Of Blue Pools and Pink Elephants
‘You guys missed all the action!’, one of the rangers said, as we returned to camp from a long morning game drive. ‘A big crocodile dragged an impala into the river, and then fought with three other crocodiles over the scraps!’ They would have had a good view of this toothy tussle – the Spring […]
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Camping on the Banks of the Ewaso Nyiro
A couple of weeks ago I covered a recent trip to the Shaba National Reserve, and a night at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge. As part of that trip, my fiancée and I also camped along the Ewaso Nyiro River, at one of the reserve’s many campsites. Accommodation options are limited in Shaba, but I […]
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A Weekend at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge
Tales of riverside campsites, crystal-clear springs and waterfalls had recently elevated Shaba to the top of my list of places to visit in Kenya. The 240sq.km reserve forms part of a much larger ecosystem that includes Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, but Shaba is the least visited of the three. This relative obscurity simply […]