We had a wake up call at 6.00am with tea even though we were having breakfast in camp and leaving at 8am for a walk to the ridge. We had Sam and the two Masai who patrol the walking conservancy with us - old Sam apologised for not coming last night - his knees - so he was going to clean the jeep instead! We crossed the river near the Serian Ngare camp (the small camp on the other bank)which was connected to us by a bridge which took one at a time. We then slowly ...

We were awake when the tea arrived at 6am. I quickly had a hot shower and we away on our drive by 6.30am on a leopard and lion hunt ...success .....we saw 15 lions, 3 females, a male and female mating, one female wanting to be the next mate and who was obviously coming into season - but he wasn't currently interested, a mother and 3 cubs, a mother and two, week old, cubs, their eyes were still shut and they were difficult to photograph as she was in a bush (tod...

We left the Hilton at 8.15 am, as promised last nights taxi driver was there ahead of time so we loaded up and headed to Wilson airport going to the old Safarilink building before finding their brand new one right by the terminal. We checked in and they weighed our soft bags and hand luggage which was over the 15kg limit, consequently we paid excess baggage for the two legs we fly in the next 8 days with Safarilink - 4400 Kenyan Shillings @ £30 - well worth it ...

We were up before 4am as we had to catch the 5.15am train from Cambridge to London as our flight to Nairobi was a 1040 departure. When we arrived at Kings Cross we used the lift as we were struggling with 4 bags - 2 for us and two for the schools in Laikipia which we were leaving at the Hilton, in Nairobi for collection by Bush and Beyond the next day. We made it, and as I jumped on the first train which said Heathrow terminals 123& 5 on the display board it...