Tag: Wild Camping

• 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 […]

  Jan Fox

  16/02/2020

  Camping, Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Camping, Elephants, Leopard, Lions, Recent, Samburu, Samburu National Reserve, Swimming, Wild Camping, Wildlife

• A Night Under Canvas in the Mara Triangle

  

  All around us the plains are black and smouldering. The absence of long grass reveals a scattering of bones, and the bottoms of shrubs have been charred by flames. Controlled fires stimulate growth before the dry season, when hundreds of thousands of wildebeest make their frenetic journey into the Mara from the Serengeti. We are […]

  Jan Fox

  05/05/2019

  Camping, Travel

  Africa, Camping, Hot Air Balloon, kenya, Lions, Mara Triangle, Masai Mara, Masai Mara National Reserve, Recent, Safari, Wild Camping, Wildlife

• Camping Wild in the Aberdares

  

  We followed a dusty two-track in the forested salient of the Aberdares. Thick patches of striking purple Vernonia shrubs bulged into the road, and twisted white tree trunks punctuated a sea of deep green on the hillsides. We rounded a bend, and a mud-coated buffalo lay in our path, unperturbed. A large male leopard suddenly […]

  Jan Fox

  17/02/2019

  Coast, Travel

  Aberdare National Park, Aberdare Range, Aberdares, Africa, Camping, Elephants, Hiking, kenya, Spotted Hyena, The Ark Lodge, Treetops, Wild Camping