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Photo gallery: Kenya

Kenya video clips

Animals of Kenya

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

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

Flying home…

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