Our second safari in the Southern Serengeti for the year 2018 started again from Arusha and followed exactly the same itinerary. Ngorongoro Crater was first. It was sunny in the early morning but clouds built up during the day. We found so many Lions this time […]
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What I mostly look for photographically from the Ngorongoro Crater is images of animals surrounded by the stunning habitat of the crater walls. These images tend to work best when it’s cloudy as the weather brings so much variety and drama to an already fantastic scene. […]
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We had many encounters with the Marsh Lions. In particular, we had some lovely moments with two very playful females, sometimes accompanied by the two dominant males. The cubs from last year had separated from the group, but we only had one sighting of them in […]
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On my last day on safari in the Mara before leaving to Zimbabwe we had the luck to witness one of the most dramatic scenes on the African plains, a pride of Lions hunting a Buffalo bull. We headed to the Musiara Marsh to spend some […]
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As usual, one of the main attractions in the Masai Mara is the Marsh pride of Lions, in the northwest of the reserve. This year the pride was huge, with many females having tiny cubs, so many that I could hardly keep track of all the […]
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During the second half of July the weather got really chilly in the Mara. The few remaining Wildebeests proceeded heading southwest into the Mara Triangle. With my guests we caught a couple of days of beautiful river crossings. Unfortunately the spectacle is often ruined by the […]
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Our first morning on this safari in the peak of the migration season started with a lovely mist at sunrise on the Olare Orok river, with a Goliath heron and a huge group of Hippos in the water. We were in that area on a mission […]
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After the fantastic trip in Serengeti and a short stay in Samburu filled with nice sightings of Leopards, I was finally back in the Mara, just in time to catch the first stages of the great wildebeests’ migration, which came quite early this year. Unfortunately, connecting […]
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Last full day on this safari, again at the Musiara Marsh. The pride of Lions there continues to provide fantastic opportunities to get to to know the intimate lives of these amazing social cats, and excellent photo opportunities. The weather seems to be getting better, and […]
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Out early for another full day in the Marsh, we were greeted by a thick layer of mist wrapping the whole Mara. We encountered a Lioness with her subadult male cub, many Topis, Imapals and Hartebeests appearing like ghosts on the Topi plains. The mist failed […]
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