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Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (10): Nairobi National Park

January 2, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Nairobi is well known as “safari central,” the place in Africa where most safaris go from, but what many people don’t realize is just how much safari-like pleasure can be found close at hand. There will be further descriptions later of two of the near-by highlights (the Giraffe Center and the Elephant Orphanage, both of …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Lions, Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya - Nairobi National Park, Kenya - Rhinos, Kenya - Wildlife

Nairobi National Park – Yet Another Historical Sighting

June 4, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

The wonders of this journey continue to amaze me, and seem to just keep coming on and on. Having had such a lovely “final” day with my best friends last Sunday, planned as a sort of farewell until I return to Kenya in August, we expected our safari-ing to be over for a while. Or …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - African buffalo, Kenya - Lions, Nairobi National Park

Masai Mara (10): Lions

May 25, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

According to the people who study these things, there are about 250-300 lions who have territories in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, and the general consensus is that – if the weather is not a problem (which it seldom is) – travelers are practically guaranteed a lion sighting. And having just seen a film a …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Lions

Hemingway: Hunting His Hyena and Hunting His Lion

January 9, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

What’s going on here? I had hardly sent over my last blog post – describing some of my thoughts about the hyenas and the lioness we saw on the Lake Nakuru Safari – than I picked up my Kindle to continue with Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and found myself at the section where he’s …

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Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway, Kenya - Hyenas, Kenya - Lions

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