The king of the beast This morning is our last safari at Kicheche ,it has been an experience Shirley I will never forget. We are going to see the rhino in their guarded area , hopefully find the Acacia Pride which we saw the other day and look for the elusive cheetah and leopard. We are picked up at 6.30 am and start our safari ,down a couple bumpy dirt tracks , and Benjamin said that they are there,he drove straight over to them and then for the next 15min...

Day 2 at Kicheche. We are heading to the Nation park to hopefully see part of the migration of the animals from one side of the Mara River to the other. We were ready to go at 8.00 am and Ben the driver was waiting at the jeep. It is to take 50minutes to reach the national park and the river where this crossing may take place, it is like watching paint dry ,it will dry but at its' own time ,the same with wild animals they will cross when they are ready. The r...

Our first part of today's safari began at 6.30am our driver Benjamin was there to meet us and away we went 10 minutes into the drive and he spotted a group of vultures, he took us towards it, told us that this usually meant that there was a kill he was right. Sure enough we arrived to see a pair of hyenas tearing at the carcass of a wilder beast and the vulture waiting their turn in the food chain. We had let Ben know our, desire to see lions and he did not let...

The drive to hell and the flight to paradise We were awoken at 6.30 am ,but we had been woken earlier then that by an elephant within meters of our tent,knocking over small trees and breaking branches off others so it could feed on the sweetness of the sap. We had breakfast said our goodbyes hopped in the van with our driver, whose name is Moses and headed by dirt track and bitumin to Nairobi. This is possibly the worst driving experience Shirley or I have eve...

Day 2 of the amboseli safari started at 8.00 am ,within minutes of the drive which would take 2hrs to reach our destination we were surrounded by the favourite animals ,giraffes, gazelles ,dic dics, zebras,all of this happen in just 10 minutes. After that we didn't see any more animals but we did see more bird life , until we reached the other side of the park. Our drivers plan was to reach the other side of the park as all the animals made their way to the mas...