Tsavo West Travel Guide
Tree Planting at Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary
It was difficult on our final morning at Salt Lick to drag ourselves away from the non-stop animal entertainment we’d been enjoying the last couple of days from the window of our room and the [...]
A Cultural Visit to Msorongo Village, Kenya
“This is the graveyard of a young woman, eight months pregnant, who was killed by an elephant,” 55-year old Jane Mwamburi of Msorongo Village, Kenya, tells us through our guide and interpreter, Oliver. There are [...]
Sundowners at Salt Lick
Sparkling wine served by a smiling waiter at a silent hilltop location in the middle of nowhere. Three lively musicians making hypnotic music – just for us. A spread of tasty snacks of samosas and [...]
On Safari at Salt Lick — a Close Encounter with Lions
While it might have appeared from our recent stories from the Masai Mara (such as this one), that the animals walk up to a picturesque spot and pose like supermodels, not all game drives will have [...]
On Safari Again, to Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, Tsavo West
If our experience at the Masai Mara made us wonder why we’d left it so long to go to Kenya and go on safari, our stay at Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge had us wondering when [...]
10 Safari Photography Tips for ‘the Great White Hunter’
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 [...]