Mammal count in Kenya’s central Olare Orok Conservancy in one 20km game drive. 18 mammal species! not to mention the birds and reptiles. 28 Lions- (two prides) 1 Leopard 2 Cheetah 2 Hyena +-1500 Wildebeest, +-1000 Zebra, +-200 buffalo, 68 Topi, 8 Kongoni 16 Giraffe, 124 Impala, 18 Elephant, 25 Grant’s Gazelle, 7 warthogs, 7 [...]

Summer is here and the heat that we have experienced so far is a signal that we are approaching the hot season. This will remain like this for sometime as the temperatures have ranged between 35 degrees and 39 degrees. The end of October has seen some rain clouds gathering but it hasn’t rained yet [...]

After the huge build-up of clouds and heat over the past week the rain finally arrived on the afternoon of the 27th, in a very big way. Coinciding with the month-end and a beautiful full moon (when we can see it), the thousands of wildebeest visible from the camp seem to have finally had enough [...]

“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…and if you have eyes you will see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to [...]

Our canoe trail reports have been a bit quiet recently but rest assured that’s not due to a lack of excitement and adventure! We had the most incredible trips over the past few months, which have just flown by. We’ve been non-stop since June with every safari (set departure date filled). Now with only a [...]

The Selinda Lion Pride is back… “Our” 15 lions just walked back into the Selinda Reserve this morning, and this time they brought their cubs. They actually entered last night to steal a fresh (elephant) kill from a bunch of hyena who were just behind Zarafa Camp. We were about to go out with the [...]

May has been an excellent month here at Selinda Camp. Game viewing from the camp itself has been exceptional! We have had 3 visits from the Selinda Wild Dog Pack which is now comprised of the Alpha Male and Alpha Female and 8 puppies from last year’s litter. They have taken to hunting the herds [...]

Imagine this scene… We were following two brother Cheetah as they crossed the Ntiakitiak river, it was getting dark and the brothers were clearly agitated so we let them be and drove on a few hundred meters. Then on our right we saw a mother Leopard (Acacia) with her five month old cub in the [...]

We love the build up around Easter as we start getting far more families arriving then normal, which is lots of fun! We have just had the best time with a family of four from Munich, including Sydney and Liam, their young children of 12 and 10.  They enjoyed a great day’s fishing on HES [...]

“All I wanted to do now was get back to Africa.  We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.” Ernest Hemingway (1898 – 1961) Typing this with the sound of thunder on the 29th day of this leap year we have [...]

To all our readers, guests current, past and future… we hope you have had a very merry Christmas and we wish you the happiest of new years! This December has been one for beautiful crystal clear mornings, huge impressive afternoon and evening storms, mud (lots of it), fishtail driving (Masai Mara drift style), getting stuck [...]

November has been an excellent month at Botswana’s Selinda Camp. We have had some excellent wildlife and birding sightings and have been fortunate to have remained fairly busy with many visitors from all around the globe. Guests that have come to share in a little bit of the magic that is in the bush in [...]

This is always our hottest month by all standards, but we started the month with some showers for the first two days. The rain fall amounted to 17mm and up to now we only have summer clouds with thunder and lightning on isolated days. The water level keeps dropping at a fast rate and as [...]

What a month we have had in so many different ways so here’s a start. Lions, Lions, Lions!  September must be dedicated to our ever growing pride, who have been just tremendous in providing some incredible spectacles for our guests.  The eighteen strong pride has increased in number with new cubs having just been born [...]

Ride Kenya is nearing the end of one of our busiest seasons ever. Eight horse safaris since June 2011 have taken the horses and guests across almost 1,000 miles of beautiful wilderness here in Southern Kenya. It is difficult to recall all of the highlights but here are a few that spring to mind; Galloping [...]

Spotted Hyena sightings are rare here at Duba Plains in the heart of the Okavango Delta. Which is why an unbelievable set of events unfolded on the night of the 4th of September 2011 While our guests sat dining on the open deck on a lovely warm spring evening a cacophony of noise erupted not [...]

Glorious glorious August with the weather getting warmer and everything getting dryer around us in the Selinda Reserve of northern Botswana. Our Elephant numbers are getting larger and larger (little water in the pans in the Selinda Reserve means they are drawn to the Selinda Spillway which snakes past Selinda Camp). With that we have [...]

July in the Masai Mara and the grass is as green as ever thanks to sporadic evening rains, but, unlike previous years, it is shorter than it should be. Usually at this time of the year long grass grown from the April rains is turning gold and swaying gently in the breezes. Speaking to the [...]

The weather at Zarafa during July ranged from icy cold nights with temperatures dropping to -3 Celsius on some mornings and warming pleasantly to the mid day up to 29 degrees Celsius. Also some strange weather with quite a number dark rain clouds forming, we even had light showers the second week of July. The [...]

June has been packed with excitement in and around Mara Plains camp. The grass here is green and lush after the full moon brought on the ‘Migration rains’, and the Lion populations of the Olare Orok Conservancy (said to be the densest in the world) are trying hard to make an impact on the Loita [...]

Riding through the bush this morning near ‘Brown site’, Millard, our stallion, who was leading the horse riding excursion from ol Donyo Lodge stopped dead in his tracks. In the bushes near us was a huge lioness devouring a young giraffe. The lioness was calm in our presence which meant that we had the most [...]

May is such a transitional month providing us with so much diversification in the flora and fauna on the Selinda Reserve, not to mention the variation in the weather. If you were to ask a local to this area “what is your favourite month” the answer would often be May. The climate at this time [...]