Kenya Day 1

Am spending three nights at the Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp in the Masai Mara. We flew in a small plane to the jungle strip, and as we came down to land we could see around the landing strip a giraffe, dozens of antelopes, scores of baboons, some buffaloes and zebras.

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These buffaloes were just by the landing strip. We then had a 15 minute drive to the camp.

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We weren’t expecting to see much until this evening, when we have a proper game drive, but a few hundred metres from the camp were four lions, two of which you can see here.

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That’s how I like to sleep!

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Then we saw a couple of elephants.

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One of them started to advance on the jeep, so we hit reverse fairly quickly! If you want to know why, look at this video.

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Lots of birds here as well as beasts.

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The “tent” I’m in.

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The view from the tent. Have already seen zebras, antelopes, warthogs, and a mongoose pass by!

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A  path at the camp. Best to keep to them due to the scorpions and snakes.

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A wart hog by the swimming pool. Looks like he has been using it!

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And a monkey in the dining room.

Been three years since my last trip to Africa, and had forgotten quite how amazing it is.