May 2013, Samburu National Reserve

After an awfully long time due to a lot of travelling, I can finally resume our daily reports from the African bush. The safari season is just about to start for us. In a few days we will begin our first safari to Samburu and then to the Masai Mara, in Kenya. And talking about Samburu, we had a short four days safari there at the end of May, staying in a wonderful lodge just north of the reserve in a community conservancy called Kalama. It is a wonderful dry and rocky hills country, where many animals pass through on their way to the Ewaso Nyiro river, in the Samburu NR, from the bush and woodlands to the north. The land was still quite green after an abundant rainy season, and quite hot. It was wonderful on our first morning out to suddenly hear the characteristic rasping call of a Leopard from somewhere among the rocks. We drove closer and there she was, a beautiful adult female walking on the top of a granite outcrop. We took a few images before she disappeared further deep where no 4×4 could venture. We heard her again from the lodge at night in the following days but never saw her again.