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Caracal in the Serengeti
In the soft morning light, a female Caracal looks back while walking. All her senses alert, perfectly aware of her surroundings. The morning sun coming through the bushes as her cub followed her on a long walk across her home range. An extraordinary morning recently in […]
Encounters with the great tusker Tolstoy in Amboseli
February 2010, a couple of months after the end of one of the worst droughts in Amboseli ever. The vegetation is flourishing thanks to the recent abundant rains and Elephants are gathering around Longinye swamp in their hundreds. Among them many cows in estrous and bulls […]
Encounter with magnificent Dida
Drove hundreds of kilometers and endless days through the wilderenss of Tsavo, scanning the bushes in the distance, searching in every family of Elephants I came across. Many times I lost hope looking at the endlessness of the Tsavo landscape, wondering to myself how would I […]
Elephants’ Trails – Photo Safari Report – Amboseli NP, Kenya – Part 2
We headed out to Amboseli, a long drive through the Taita hills and Lumo conservancy, encountering beautiful wilderness interspersed with villages, under the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro. We arrived in time for a beautiful Amboseli sunset with Elephants in front of the palms in the heart […]
Elephants’ Trails – Photo Safari report – Tsavo East NP, Kenya – Part 1
At the end of June we were joined by four guests for our Elephants’ trails safari, which was originally scheduled for 2020. It was the first time for us running this trip across the wilderness of Tsavo East NP and Amboseli NP in search for extraordinary […]
Tolstoj on dry Amboseli lake
One of the many highlights of our recently concluded Elephants’ Trails safari in Kenya. One of Africa’s most magnificent great tuskers, Tolstoj, walks across the dry Amboseli lake bed. Only a small portion of the lake is dry at the moment, after the abundant rains of […]
Goodbye Scar
On June 11th 2021 the magnificent male Lion known as Scarface died in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. On July 22nd 2011, in the late afternoon fading light four young male Lions were eating a wildeebest. My first encounter with a special Lion, Scarface. When we saw him […]
Amazing new great tusker in Amboseli
Last year I first heard reports of a previously unknown big bull Elephant, a great tusker who appeared briefly in Amboseli. His reputation was of a quite unpredictable individual, who sometimes had charged at vehicles. This year in April I was in Amboseli one morning when […]
Goodbye Iltilal
Goodbye magnificent Iltilal. While I was in Amboseli last week I received the tragic news that this stunning Elephant, one of the greatest tuskers I have seen, had just passed away. Cause of death seems to be natural, though he was recently speared and treated due […]
Serengeti – photo safari report – March 2020
Leaving Ndutu we headed to my favourite place in Tanzania, the Serengeti with its magnificent kopjes. We camp in a remote location and do our safaris in areas where hardly any other vehicle goes. It’s just amazing driving through one of the most stunning African landscapes […]
