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Zebra, including a very happy to see us zebra Gazelle an aardvark burrow. They only come out at night And even giraffes! It was literally just a few feet away It was a fantastic and weird experience. Yet again, a bit like a petting zoo with no petting. You can camp onsite, and yes, I’ll...

Day 7 Lake Nakura Lodge to Naivasha Kongoni Lodge The bed was actually slightly better than a sheet of pine board, but not much better. Some views around the lodge including maybe the house that Kenyatta stayed at Excellent breakfast. Looked after again by the lovely Leah My childish mind...

Then it was out for our Lake Nakuru NP game drive. It was a very different drive. Access to the park is via a causeway that really isn’t that far from going under. Yellow billed stork No flamingos of course but plenty of pelicans. With them lots of buffalo The park is very, moist. It...

Lunch was calling so off we went to Lake Nakura Lodge A fantastic homage to the 60s, 70s and 80s. It felt like a cross between a tiki bar and a log cabin lodge in Yellowstone. Gigantic rooms looking out across the lake towards Nakuru with a gigantic bed as soft as a sheet of chipboard. Told...

I'm getting behind. We've just spent the whole day at Serentgeti NP. Better get cracking Day 6 Rhino Watch Safari Lodge to Lake Nakuru Lodge A very good night’s sleep on our comfy big singles. Of course a great breakfast to go with the previous night’s dinner. We thought that it was just the...

Then we had a drive around to look for some rhinos. Look at the crazy horn on this one. Then we went to see Baraka the blind black rhino. Again, a slightly uncomfortable experience. Baraka hurt his right eye out in the main park and then lost the sight in his left due to a cataract. They...

more street scenes We were dropped at a mall in Nanyuki while Jackson had one of the shocks tightened. This is the second on the go fix. At Ikweta a spring on one of the breaks came loose and caused a grinding sound. This was fixed late the first second afternoon. I got some more cash out of...

Then we went to look for the lions. One female meant there would be more. I could see them amongst some low scrubby bushes and eventually Jackson did too. Here's what we found out on the plain - a black maned male, four females and six cubs. Just incredible. The whole being surrounded by...

Day 5 Samburu Sopa Lodge to Rhino Watch Lodge Another beautiful sunrise greeted us as we walked up to breakfast. This lodge would be an easy 5/5 if not for the hard beds. As they are, it is a very easy 4.5/5. pool and just one of the lovely staff We're taking turns sitting up front with...

Wow!! Sounds amazing We stayed at The Delight. Very quirky. Loved our loft room. At Sossusvlei make sure you get to the top of Big Daddy, so you can tell me what it was like ;)

then over the radio came the message that Jackson had been listening for - the young lions had been located. We’d literally been 50m away from them when we’d been searching. Pretty incredible to get as close as we did, along with the maybe eight other safari vehicles Long drive back up to...

Back down to the valley and river at 4 Some better pics of the Grey Crowned Cranes More elephants and vervet monkeys we see these all of the time. They run down the road in front of us constantly and make quite the racket. Yellow-necked spurfowl/francolin We drove around and...

We have Thanks for that John. We have our cameras in a sealed box at home loaded up with silica. Hadn't thought to bring any with us. It's much cooler at the moment and it seems to be working ok again. Fingers crossed.

Vulturine guinea fowl A very large tower of giraffes up by the airstrip, maybe 14 A fleeting glimpse of a Kori bustard Then time for breakfast. A good spread. breakfast view from our table We had the rest of the morning and early afternoon until our next drive. I was going to have a...

Day 4 Samburu National Reserve Samburu National Reserve Two things I forgot to mention that happened yesterday. One was that the Sony RX10 decided to die as bAlt was taking photos of the leopard. I’d tried to talk him into letting me bring my trusty old Samsung NX500 but he’d said no. One...

More gazelle The first oryx of the trip Then elephants including two tiny babies We went down to the riverfront where we came across some vervet monkeys Then a pair of grey crowned cranes that I won’t post any photos of because they were blurry and we got some better ones the following...

Then to our room that was in the seventh of 15 buildings that run each side of the central lodge building. 60 rooms in total. Very cool little lizards encountered on the way Super cool room with a SUPER HARD bed. Told to keep the doors closed at night to ensure baboons don’t get in. the...

we crossed the river that we were to see a few times over the next couple of days then up to lodge that is a 9km rocky and rough drive up onto a plateau. It even has its own airport and 2900m A380 capable runway, not. A beautiful central lodge building with restaurant, bar, shop and spa...

A LEOPARD. OMFG! Literally a dream come true. Jackson was of the opinion that this was a female and had eaten not that long ago. All she did was pose perfectly for the camera. Magic. Leopard overload coming I find the whole wild animals so unfazed by vehicles around them so bizarre a...

Day 3 Ikweta Camp to Samburu Sopa Lodge Breakfast and today I tried scrambled and the boys fried and they were much more successful. We really enjoyed our stay at Ikweta and our visit to Meru NP. We were pretty much the only people in the park when we were there. A very strange, and...