Safari journal

Everything here is written by the people who run the trips. Guides, drivers and planners who were in the park last week. We publish when there is something worth saying, which means fewer articles than a content calendar would produce and none of them written to fill a slot.

Most of it answers what guests actually ask us. When gorilla permits go on sale. What the Mara looks like in April. Whether a six year old will cope with a long day in a vehicle.

13 August 20267 minute read

Amboseli: elephants under Kilimanjaro

Amboseli's elephants and Kilimanjaro are a package deal: water from the mountain is understood to surface in the basin as permanent swamps, holding big herds in open country all year. The mountain itself is usually only clear at dawn and in the last hour of light.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

A telephoto lens trained on distant wildlife

20 May 20266 minute read

Safari wildlife photography: the kit list that actually matters

Two bodies, a 100 to 400 mm zoom, a fast standard zoom, a beanbag and more cards than you think. Everything else is optional, and the tripod stays at home.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

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Amboseli: elephants under Kilimanjaro

Safari wildlife photography: the kit list that actually matters

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