The Best Four came on safari to see the Great Migration and we certainly were not disappointed. We’ll get to the numbers later, as we try to describe our adventures with finding the animals crossing the Mara River to continue their migration on up into the Kenya grasslands. For the present, let’s share some of …
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Africa: The Migration (3) – Our Safari and Our First Elephants
The Best Four (Charles, Nerisa, Geoffrey, and Guy) took off for Masai Mara to see the migration, and we were hardly out of the campsite and into the game reserve before we were amazed at the numbers of wildebeests, zebras, and other migrating animals that had made their way to this magnificent grassland. We were immediately …
Africa: The Migration (2) – The Four Best Head Out
We’ve taken to calling ourselves “the four best,” since we like to think our our little group as The Four Best African Friends. Not sure it works, ’cause I have so many best friends in Africa that it is difficult for me to decide who are “the best.” But no question about it, these are the …
Africa: The Migration
Sometimes referred to as “The Great Migration” or the “Wildebeest Migration,” most people in Africa simply speak of this incredible natural phenomenon as “The Migration.” The sheer scope of this animal trek is, quite frankly, hard to believe for many people. How could so many animals know to come together to move about the continent? With …
Ngong Hills Re-Visited: Fictionally and Quite by Coincidence
Shortly before I left New York, a friend shared with me her copy of A Change in Altitude, by Anita Shreve. It’s a novel about a young couple coming to Kenya, he a physician and she a photojournalist. The setting is the 1970s, a critical period in the country’s development (and with Jomo Kenyatta still in …
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