I described the wilderness experience as being one of the most essential ingredients to a great safari in an earlier blog post. Over the past twenty years the popularity of African safaris have been steadily increasing. Wildlife areas vary considerably. Most reserves were created in areas of limited water or ...
A safari in the African bush is likely to be one of your most memorable life experiences. It is like no other. Many of our visitors say that it was a unique, life-changing one. One of the phenomenal aspects of a safari is being in the wilds, in remote and ...
It is not easy to describe to someone who has not been what it is like to be in the midst of one of the greatest wildlife migrations on Earth. One obvious aspect is the sight of so many animals. However, the sound of this multitude is essential too; the ...
The Serengeti is a vast ecosystem involving a myriad of players. However the star of the show must go to one of the most eccentric of all the protagonists ....
Tanzania was a dust bowl just before our safari started ...
I look back on my most recent safari with a lively group of Canadians, who could be excused for confusing "caribou" with "karibu" (Swahili for "welcome"), and loved being out in the open Plains, in tents, in Land-Cruisers - all of it! I reflect on the memories that come to ...
Safari guides Dave, Ole Kirimbai and I have just come back from another wonderful safari in the Serengeti with some great folks from western Canada. Although it was the "green season" it hadn't rained for a while so, while a lot of the game was out on the Plains or ...
While driving in the late afternoon from a camp just inside the woodland on the edge of the Serengeti Plains to a fly camp we had set up farther east, we spotted an unusual hyaenid feeding in the grassland. It was an aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), one of the most exciting ...
We were staying in the last camp of our safari, Suyan, situated at this time of year in the far north-east of the Serengeti, just outside the park. This is an area that we are able to go for walks, night drives, and visit the Maasai pastoralists who live here, ...
What is it with wildebeest? They must be one of the most ugly antelope out there, but they are such characters. They have such joie de vivre, such spirit! Yes, they are not very intelligent, but they don't seem to mind. In fact, I am convinced that they see themselves ...
In 1989 and 1990 African wild dogs were seen quite frequently in the Serengeti Plains during the rains and short dry season (December - April). Then sometime in 1990 they disappeared. I think the last time I saw three individuals was in 1991 near the Ndutu woodland. This was very ...
