Learning Swahili from the Locals

Tribesmen of a Maasai village close to the Sarova Mara in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Learning Swahili from the Locals. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Learning Swahili from the locals in the Masai Mara was part of the Kenya experience. Every person we met made an effort to teach us a word or two. Imagine how much better we’d all communicate if that enthusiasm for sharing language was global. “Jambo! (hello!),” the security guy cheerfully calls out to us as … Read more

Local Knowledge: Caroline and Tira from the Masai Mara

Local Knowledge: Caroline and Tira from the Masai Mara, Kenya. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In our latest interview in our Local Knowledge series, we get insider advice from locals Caroline and Tira, a guest relations manager and guide from the Sarova Mara Camp in the Masai Mara in Kenya. After spending 10 months in holiday rentals, it made a nice change to stay in a hotel again – especially a … Read more

Masai Mara Take-Homes: Bargaining for Beads at a Mara Village

Masai Mara Souvenirs, Bargaining for Beads at a Mara Village, Kenya. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

My husband called me ‘the Queen of Shopping’ when we lived in the Middle East and I wrote on subjects like ‘Bargaining 101’. But no amount of years spent drinking tea with carpet sellers from Morocco to Dubai prepared me for bargaining for beads at a Mara village in Kenya for some Masai Mara take-homes. At the … Read more

A Cultural Visit to a Maasai Village in the Masai Mara

A Cultural Visit to a Maasai Village in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

If these guys get any closer to my camera they’re going to be smack up against my lens, I think as I desperately try to keep the image in focus. We’re on a cultural visit to a Maasai village close to the Sarova Mara in the Masai Mara and I’m filming the Maasai warriors, resplendent in vibrant red … Read more

10 Safari Photography Tips for ‘the Great White Hunter’

Masai Mara, Kenya. 10 Safari Photography Tips for 'the Great White Hunter'. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

So how do you make sure when you’re on safari that you get the shot instead of missing an opportunity? As a follow-up from my last post, Ten Seconds with a Leopard at the Masai Mara, here are my 10 safari photography tips to succeeding as a contemporary ‘Great White Hunter’, so you can snare … Read more