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!...
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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...
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...
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...
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 tips to succeeding as a contemporary...
Our safari guide, Edward, is his usual cheery self when we meet at 6.15am for an early morning game drive. As Edward has already shown us the Big Five — the lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino — on the previous two days’ drives, he is...
While going on safari is the main reason to come to the Masai Mara, there is more to do than game drives. The Maasai guides at the Sarova Mara offer nature walks – short one-hour walks in the forest within the Sarova Mara, and longer...
Late in the afternoon of our first day on safari in the Masai Mara, we take our first ‘proper’ game drive into the national park – the awesome wildlife spotting I described in an earlier post took place just on the drive from the airport...
I had read so much advice on safaris before coming to the Masai Mara – when to go, what to wear, what to take, what to do, etc. However, some of the African safari tips were conflicting. Nearly everything I read said to wear camouflage...
Going to the Masai Mara to glimpse the Great Migration had been on my wish list for many years. While we didn’t get to see the spectacle as hoped, we did get to do the sort of wildlife watching we’d always dreamt of doing and...
