Author: tjiskavw

Everybody sing along! "look there daddy don't you see...there's a horse in striped pajamas" - "no, that isn't what it is at all - that's an animal people call a…

I love how this little guy walks under his mother for protection. I was told the babies can stand and walk just under a week after birth. This  allows the…

Besides being the tallest mammal on earth, no two giraffes have the same pattern of spots...sort of like fingerprints of humans. They also spend most of their life standing -…

These guys are part of the Big Five ( criteria for which is a penchant to charge ) they also rally when a member of the herd is attacked establishing…

I stayed at the Sopa Lodge which has a large open lounge surrounding a big circular fireplace. I would hang out here after returning from the game drive and chat…

Every day at around noon Kenneth would find a tree for us to sit under to eat our boxed lunches. One day, we had been preoccupied with viewing a number…

Mara is the Maassi word for spotted and the name they gave this region because of the short bushy trees that dot the landscape.  About two million animals migrate from…

The drive from Nairobi to Massi Mara takes about 7-8 hours and it is a visual feast of colors and activities. First, there are the Maassi - they  (some as…

Kenneth is an incredible tracker with an easygoing, personable style that made for a full day of fun. For example, he had received a call from a "colleague" one morning…