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Terminal A at DOH.
Our friend’s house in Runda/Nairobi …
… with beautiful garden.
Many nice places to eat and shop in local malls.
Nairobi street.
Karura forest in Nairobi …
… waterfalls …
… and wildlife
… more wildlife.
View from our cottage at Samburu Sentrim lodge
…our table in the dining room
Our safari van with roof up and ready to go
That is what you see from the safari van…elephants and giraffe…
…male lion…
…lion couple…
…common warthogs..
…savanna elephants…
…gerenuk antelope…
…reticulated giraffe…
…impalas…
…Grant’s gazelles…
…Samburus with goat herd…
…bathing in the river…
…small stream, heron and baboons…
…baboon…
…Grevy’s zebras…
…Beisa oryxes…
…martial eagle…
…greater kudu…
…somali ostrich…
…dik-dik…
…termite mound…
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…Grevy’s zebras…
…savanna, acacia tree and weaver nests…
…sunset
The Stables, now less expensive lodging
Black rhino Baraka…
…up close
Southern white rhinos…
…another white rhino…
black rhinos
Cape buffalo
Olive baboons
Reticulated giraffes
Lonely elephant…
…with Mt Kenya in the background
Thomson’s gazelles
Jackson’s hartebeest
Hartebeest
Masai ostrich
Rescued chimpanzees…
…in the refuge
Wetland…
…elephants
…defassa waterbucks
Crowned cranes
Burchell’s Zebras
Young lilac-breasted roller
Giraffes…
…at salt lick
Sunrise over Ol Pejeta
Mt Kenya on the horizon
Rhinos and yellow barked acacia forest along Lake Nakuru
Lions after zebra meal
Jackals looking to steal food
Black (silver) backed jackals, zebra, impalas
Grant’s gazelle and bufflos
Lion dance
Jumping competition
Dance and chant
This men will show us how to start fire in no time …
…making fire with hardwood stick, small soft cedar plank and dry elephant dung
Women joined the performance as well
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…and kids…
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Village market
Many people came out to participate
Topi
Zebras
Banded mongooses
Zebras and wildebeests trying to decide on Mara river crossing
Mara river…
…hippos
Crossing a small stream
Elephant family
Elands
Voltures circling wildebeest carcass
Maasai ostriches
Great migration on a small scale – wildebeests (gnus)
Wildebeests (gnus)
Main road in Mara
Driving through Masai Mara
Secretary bird
Cheetah
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A large pride of lions consisting of several families…
…with a huge meal…
…everybody is hanging around…
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Male impala rivals
We visit the same lion family
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…cubs are playful today
Maasai giraffe
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Voltures and marabou stork
Guarded walk on banks of Mara river…
…to see hippos…
and crocodiles…
…this one is on our side of the river, we had to turn back
Mara river
Herds gather hoping to cross Mara…
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…but only an elephant does
Nap time
Lion day-dreaming
Masai Mara plains
Wildebeest (gnu) migration
Our safari van
Maasai waiting for tourist visit
Voltures, I bet they found something to eat
Black rhino
Spotted hyena
Typical view of the plains
…voltures are gone …
Lionesses waiting for hunting opportunity…
…coming back after unsuccessful hunt
Black-backed jackals
Plains all the way to the horizon
Vervet monkey
Elands
Hartebeest
Rocky hills – there are mongooses in the distance
Reedbucks and close-up…
Relaxing afternoon under the Sun
“Stay in your car”
Thomson’s gazelles
Mara landscape
Wharthogs
Large lion family attracts crowds
Driving in Masai Mara
Goat herders outside the park
On the way back to Sentrim lodge
On the way to Naivasha, roadside business, tourist stop with souvenirs, heavy goat traffic on the main street
Water full of green algae
Hippos
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Great white pelicans, cormorants and yellow-billed storks
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Crater Lake
Finally a chance to walk
Spotted hyena
Hippos watching as our boat gets closer and cuts them off from the shore a bit
Papyrus at our camp, fishermen on Lake Naivasha
Sunset (left) and … sunrise at Lake Naivasha
Buffalo kicking up dust close to the trail…
impalas crossed… all clear
Warthogs grazing by the trail
Rock hyrax
Ol Njorowa gorge
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Mt Longonot, 2,776 masl
We came from there…the park gate is down from the rim (on the left)
…heading towards the summit…
…summit behind us
Looking around for somebody to fix Joanna’s shoe soles eaten away by volcanic ash and pumice on Mt Longonot …found the right guy
Our cottage at Fishermen’s Camp, for wildlife we just looked around
Vervet monkeys
Superb starlings
African sacred ibis
Black-and white colobus
Marabou stork
Lovebirds
Fish eagle
Joanna is in, they freed seat for me by moving people and cargo around
Watching matatu drivers and handlers at the Naivasha stop…
.. and local people passing by
Roadside farmer’s market
In matatu on the way from Naivasha to Nairobi
Local people gather around road accident victim
Traffic jam after the accident
Our guide, cook and three porters getting ready to hit the trail with us at the…
…Sirimon Gate
Old Moses Camp an hour after we arrived
Moorland
Drizzled at times
Open panoramas all the way to the clouds on the horizon
And then cleared a bit
The trail meanders through magical landscape with interesting plants
The sky clears and we can see the Point Lenana massif, triangle peak at the end of Mackinder Valley
Trail in Mackinder Valley
Mackinder Caves
Small giant lobelia (on the right)
The last stretch before reaching Shiptons Camp, just above Mackinders Caves, looking back at where we came from
Shiptons Camp (hut)
Clouds moving back in mixing with the rocks in front of Batian and Nelion, the highest summits of Mount Kenya
Sunrise over Batian and Nelion
Going up towards Hausberg Col (pass)
Oblong Tarn (lake) and Hausberg Tarn on the other side of the pass
Building stone pyramid (andean tradition) at Hausberg Col depicting Batian, Nelion and Lenana
Rock hyrax
Giant groundsels
Clouds are coming back, hoping they will go away by next morning
Ostrich plume lobelia and giant groundsels
Afroalpine vlei rats grazing at Shiptons Camp
Point Lenana 4,985 masl, just a few more steps up
Point Lenana. The highest peaks of Mt Kenya, Batian and Nelion are 5,199 and 5,188 masl, but require technical rock climbing, not for us
You get this improvised “vintage”look when you forget and leave your hiking gear at home
Via ferrata Olonana leading to the summit is the highest in the World
Rare view of Simba Tarn on the way down to Simba Col
With improving weather…
…the views are getting better as we walk down …
…towards and along Gorges Valley to Mintos Camp
One of the Hall Tarns
Gorges Valley
Lake Michaelson
Gorges Valley
Gorges Valley, look back towards the Mountain
Walking through dense vegetation (moorland)
Moorland
Nithi Waterfalls
Equatorial/tropical forest near Chogoria gate
Hiking through tropical forest…
..and forest in clouds a moment later
Road to Chogoria
Chogoria main street
Banana market on the way to Meru
Our cook getting fruits and veggies for the trip
Murera cottages in Meru NP
Lunch on the porch
Ready for game drive
Marabou stork gathering
Reticulated giraffes
Meru landscape
Another sunset
Picnic place in front of our cottage
What’s for dinner?
Buffalo
Baby zebra
White rhinos, zebras and waterbucks in a swamp
Baobab
Eland
Lesser kudu
Marabou storks and vultures
Road still wet from last night’s rain
Common waterbucks
Common waterbucks
Troop of baboons
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Somali ostriches
Doum palms
Kori bustard
Road ahead…
…and behind
Early morning drive
Hippos
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Elephant family with 5 day old baby
Protecting the baby
Rift Valley
Khat plantation
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Tea everywhere
Ready to harvest
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Plantation family house
Giraffe Centre…
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…Rothschild’s Giraffes…
…warthogs get breakfast too
Sheldrick’s Elephant Orphanage…
…milk for breakfast…
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…play…
…fundraising…
…play…
…elephant sleeping quarters
Leopard at Safari Walk
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