Kenya - 2013

The entry into JKIA was easier than expected and after our arrival and collection of luggage we drove to a small new boutique hotel where we enjoyed a much needed breakfast. Off to Wilson airport and the wait for our Kichwa flight. Thank goodness we flew in a larger plane so the camera equipment was not an issue.

We landed at Kichwa and experienced our usual warm welcome, had our luggage loaded onto a vehicle and went on a quick game drive where we enjoyed the golden savannah and large-sky landscapes of the Mara.

The wildebeest had 'left the grasslands' as it had rained in the Serengeti, but we held out hope that the rains would fall again in the Mara. And fall they did. We did managed to see four crossings much to our relief for the guests who hadn't seen them before or hadn't had a chance to in previous years.

David took some exquisite images. Here are a few to enjoy.

 2013 guests

 In flight

 Morning catch

 The boys

Brothers

 Survey

Time to hunt

We again had a most wonderful wildlife experience.

We will celebrate 10 amazing years in the Masai Mara in 2014. We invite you to join us.

16 to 23 August 2014. Please contact us for details.

We return to the Masai Mara

With the excitement of the fire at JKIA in Nairobi, we've been sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for confirmation that all is well in Kenya. Thank goodness we have been given the 'go ahead' to travel and arrive in Kenya next Saturday morning, have breakfast and then fly into the Mara, Kichwa Tembo and meet our friends.

I love photographers. You never quite know what they view from their cameras, each one seeing something just a little different. So I know that I in turn will experience something new each time we go out.

Every year we visit is as if it is the very first time. Rather like Jung who went on safari in the early 1900's we find a new world.

 Hyena cooling off

 Jackal and pups

And of course, a crossing

From the Mara, we fly into Rwanda to explore the land of a thousand hills and hopefully discover a gorilla family or two. 

This is how Jung experienced the Masai Mara: “Grazing, heads nodding, the herds moved forward like slow rivers. This was the stillness of the eternal beginning, the world as it had always been, in the state of non-being; for until then no one had been present to know that it was this world… here I was now, the first human being to recognize that this was the world.