“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived [...]

‘Toto’ means baby in Swahili, and was often used as a term of endearment in reference to young safari staff in the days of early exploration. But today, in our context, it is simply meant out of respect to its sister camp,

Mara Plains received half of one year’s average rainfall in the month of April this year! So the rains really did come this month in an incredible way. From the 1st through to the end of the month, it has been non-stop with huge storms of inches at a time through to all-day drizzles. This [...]

Last night the Ntiekietek River, which winds it’s way through the camp, rose over 15 feet as torrential and continuous rain drained from the plains and hills to the north and crashed it’s way past, rushing at speed for Lake Victoria many miles down river. The rope bridge from the car park into camp was, [...]

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 [...]