Tag: Northern Kenya
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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…
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Breakaway Drive to Saruni Samburu and Saruni Rhino
We woke to the roar of a lion. Well, my wife did. When I eventually opened my eyes, she told me she was sure it was a lion. Maybe it was, because on a game drive the previous evening we saw a lioness leaving the waterhole way down on the plain below our villa. We…
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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…
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How You Can Help Protect the Grevy’s Zebra
You’re likely to spot a zebra on safari in Kenya, but chances are it’ll be the more common plains zebra (formerly Burchell’s zebra). Its much rarer cousin, the Grevy’s zebra, is mainly found in the arid and semi-arid landscapes of northern Kenya. It’s not too difficult to tell the two species apart: the Grevy’s is…
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Kenya’s New Glamping Experience
I first came across the term ‘glamping’ – short for glamorous camping – in 2014. A friend of mine had been pictured in the UK’s Daily Mail sipping a glass of champagne in a bell tent at the Glastonbury Festival. She was perched on the edge of a large double bed with plump pillows, beneath…
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