Tag: Mount Ololokwe

• A Night on the Sacred Mountain

  

  ‘Maape!’. ‘Let’s go!’. Our Samburu guide, Lemaiyan, urged us to continue our climb after a long water break. The mid-morning heat had been turned up a notch, and our progress was slow. We zigzagged up the eastern slope of Mount Ololokwe, along a path well trodden by elephants and cattle. Stumbling under the weight of…

  Jan Fox

  13/09/2020

  Travel

  Africa, Camping, kenya, Mount Ololokwe, Mountain Climbing, Northern Kenya, Recent, Sabache Camp, Samburu

• 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…

  Jan Fox

  15/07/2018

  Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Isiolo, Mount Ololokwe, Northern Kenya, Safari, Samburu, Sarova, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Shaba Game Lodge, Shaba, Shaba National Reserve