National Parks Scenery
Kenya’s Big Five threatened
Some of the big five, elephant, lion, buffalo, rhino and leopard, the symbols of the country’s wildlife diversity, could soon be gone. Data from Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) shows the population of four of the big five has reduced to a trifle, down from hundreds of thousands back in the 1960s. According to KWS Kenya [...]
Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls National Park, in Uganda, East Africa has the magnificent Murchison Falls that have rendered many a tourist breathless when they catch sight of the stunning Falls. At Murchison Falls is where the world’s longest river – River Nile – explodes violently through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment to plunge into [...]
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya offer visitors an opportunity to tour Kenya and experience an exquisite safari, away from conventional safari destinations like the Masai Mara, Tsavo and Amboseli national parks. Unknown to many people, the Conservancy has a high wildlife to area ratio of any park in or reserve in Kenya. A sighting of [...]
Elephant vs Lion territorial war at Amboseli
This would be interesting for the Ethologists; In the August 2008 TN magazine (now called Twende & TN); there was this article about an increasing number of elephants at Amboseli National Park spending the night outside the park, sometimes causing damage to crops.
Wildebeest’s Migration
The endless plains of East Africa are the setting for the World’s Greatest Wildlife Spectacle – the 1.5 million animal ungulate migration. From the vast Serengeti plains to the champagne colored hills of Kenya’s Masai Mara over 1.4 million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra and gazelle relentlessly tracked by Africa’s great predators, migrate in a clockwise [...]
