Safari At Ol Donyo Wuas

Safari At Ol Donyo Wuas, Kenya

Buffalo resting while the tick birds are feeding in Ambosili National Park

Mount Kilimanjaro

Horst and Mohamed enjoying the close company of a herd of elephants close to our camp.

Flowering acacia tree

Those with sharp eyes can see the camp shining at the top left of the photo

An aerial view of the countryside taken from our charter flight

Getting ready to board our charter plane to camp

One of our guides, Moses, giving Hessa a field lesson on the age of the elephant who laid this pile

Good use for a used car tire.

We have just got back to camp from a game drive, and waiting for lunch. Mohamed and his son-in law Ken are playing scrabble, Horst is keeping an eye on the proceedings, as we hear "OH NOO!" quite often. I am trying to catch up with some reading on the bird life we have seen

The sitting, bar and dining room of our camp. The camp was run extremely well by the Rachel and Sissa

A view from sitting area of the swimming pool, overlooking the waterhole. An almost continuous variety of animals come to drink at the water hole. We have seen elephants, giraffes, zebra, baboon, impala, warthog, hyena, eland etc.

They have an observation post on top of a hill in Ambosili, which provides a great panoramic views of the park.

Ken and Tanya exploring

At the gate of Ambosili one gets the chance to buy all sorts of gifts

Moses explaining the dried up tracks in the mud to Hessa and Tanya

We found a tree stand, and lifted the girls up onto it.

Both Hessa and Tanya had an absolutely great experience in learning about the wildlife and life in the bush in general. In fact, Ken, Tanya's father, said this trip has given him a new outlook on life.

Undigested marula fruits in an old elephants droppings.

We explained to the girls why these thorn bushes are called "whistling thorn" The ants make holes in them, and the wind whistles as it blows through them.