This is our final game drive – and once again it exceeds our expectations. You always hope or wish but certainly never expect that city slickers like us would happen upon some hyenas and vultures feeding on a small giraffe that a pride of lions has taken down a night before. This is some National […]
This interaction literally lasted about 10 seconds, too fast for the camera to focus and for us to do anything other than be frozen in amazement. The baby elephant, which is about the size of the Land Cruiser tire, got up, charged at the car, either wanting to play, or pretending to scare us. The mother trumpeted […]
Manfred really stepped it up today when out of nowhere in the middle of nowhere under some ordinary unassuming bush he found a band of brothers, well fed and sleeping. They did not even raised their heads when we pulled up. Having said that, I think the only thing that stopped the lions from eating […]
What is better than one solitary elephant minding his own business. Well a herd of 40 or so elephants with lots of babies. The tiny babies were hardly 3 feet tall, hardly sticking above the grass. So far I think this is the best and most memorable and mesmerizing experience for all of us. […]
Our days here at Basecamp Explorer are quite lazy. We get up at 6 am have a quick coffee and are out for the morning game drive by 6:30am. We are back to camp at around 9:30 am and inform the staff that we will be back in 10 or 15 minutes for breakfast, at […]
After spending a night in Nairobi, we set off for the Basecamp Explorer in the Maasai Mara Reserve where we are going to be spending 6 days. The journey is about 260km but takes about 5 to 6 hours. We will make a few stops on the way to see East African Rift which is well […]
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