Tag Archives: Kenya How many distinctively different animals can you see in just one day in the Masai (Masaai) Mara? More than will fit into one blog post, apparently! The Mara is home to about 95 species of mammals, including the “The Big Five”: lions, leopards, African bush elephants, African buffaloes, and black rhinoceros. The bird species number […]  The grass was as high as an elephant’s eye. Well – as high as a young elephant’s eye, at least. The rains came early to the grasslands of East Africa this year. In Kenya’s Masai (Maasai) Mara, February and March were exceptionally wet, and April followed suit (see: The Governors’ Camp Blog). When I arrived […]  I was excited about my first day in East African parks. In the few hours we had spent driving around Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park, we had seen two of the Big Five and numerous other magnificent wild animals. The centrepiece and raison d’être of the park, of course, is the lake, known for its […]  There is so much more to Kenya than just the animals. But, as I was going there anyway, not taking advantage of the game parks seemed a waste – especially as it had been many years since I had visited an African national park (see: Etosha, Namibia). I was signed onto a photographic trip to […] |
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