Articles - September, 2015

Our final day in the Mara had arrived, and we had one morning game drive before we would need to depart Elephant Pepper Camp and the fantastic people, animals, places and experiences that had made up the previous week.  The day was quite subdued, and there was that ever-persistent feeling we had experienced before on our final [ continue reading ]

By the sixth day in the Mara North Conservancy in Kenya's south-west, our incredible safari was rapidly drawing to a conclusion; but despite the ticking clock, a lot can happen in two days, and day six would be an amazing day, as we would later discover.  In addition to the routine morning and afternoon game drives [ continue reading ]

Our plan for day five in the Kenyan wilderness was to depart the Mara North Conservancy and head south into the public Maasai Mara National Reserve.  We were in search of cheetahs, the only big cats we had not yet seen.  Rather than heading out for two drives (morning and afternoon) near camp, we made a single [ continue reading ]