a quick update on the game viewing in Kenya.....BARGAINS galore to be had with all of the camps still only running at %50 and the situation as stable as it has ever been!!!
"KICHECHE BUSH CAMP
'The brutal squalls and savage downpours of Easter have been chased away by a strong easterly and the final week of the season has seen the Mara at its most pristine. Good job too, as the camp has been full all week with some keen (but not geekish) photographers. One or two had thought of canceling due to the Western press painting with brushes as broad as John Prescott's waistline. Fortunately they understood that this was the optimum time and have been rewarded in spades. With Jonathan Scott in camp and our top guides champing at the bit there was never going to be a shortage of game but the cat sightings were remarkable.
Within the first three days the feline holy trinity of leopards, cheetahs and lions had been comprehensively fulfilled. Choose, if you will, from Mrembo chasing down a large impala above leopard gorge then feasting with her now almost adult boys. Alternatively the majestic matinee of Supuu walking her two cubs over a kilometre across the baize-like short grass below sundowner ridge, before leading them to a fresh impala dinner.
However if it is lions you are after the Kicheche Pride was in belligerent mood, keen not to disappoint and at sunrise two females sneaked up on an unsuspecting topi like hoodies around a cashpoint. Within seconds they and the big pride males were feasting on the steaming carcass. Like pallid Christians being marched into the Coliseum the mother then brought her two 14 week cubs into the abattoir before they slaked their thirst at a nearby waterhole. At the same time the enigmatic shy boys, these monster cheetahs with chests like Phil Vickery and shoulders to match were downing another adult topi. This smorgasbord of game was illuminated by skies and light only the Mara can deliver and with the plains emptier than a terminal 5 baggage carousel.
There can never have been a better time to be here. Crisis, what crisis, the Mara never lets anyone down, as one guest remarked 'I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a unicorn being chased by a leopard on a bicycle' - miracles take longer to achieve but only on the fabled grasslands of the Mara can they even be contemplated. 'Spot' will return in June."
PLEASE SEE OUR WEB SITE FOR FURTHER PRICES AND AVAILABILITY OR CALL ON 020 7471 8780
"KICHECHE BUSH CAMP
'The brutal squalls and savage downpours of Easter have been chased away by a strong easterly and the final week of the season has seen the Mara at its most pristine. Good job too, as the camp has been full all week with some keen (but not geekish) photographers. One or two had thought of canceling due to the Western press painting with brushes as broad as John Prescott's waistline. Fortunately they understood that this was the optimum time and have been rewarded in spades. With Jonathan Scott in camp and our top guides champing at the bit there was never going to be a shortage of game but the cat sightings were remarkable.
Within the first three days the feline holy trinity of leopards, cheetahs and lions had been comprehensively fulfilled. Choose, if you will, from Mrembo chasing down a large impala above leopard gorge then feasting with her now almost adult boys. Alternatively the majestic matinee of Supuu walking her two cubs over a kilometre across the baize-like short grass below sundowner ridge, before leading them to a fresh impala dinner.
However if it is lions you are after the Kicheche Pride was in belligerent mood, keen not to disappoint and at sunrise two females sneaked up on an unsuspecting topi like hoodies around a cashpoint. Within seconds they and the big pride males were feasting on the steaming carcass. Like pallid Christians being marched into the Coliseum the mother then brought her two 14 week cubs into the abattoir before they slaked their thirst at a nearby waterhole. At the same time the enigmatic shy boys, these monster cheetahs with chests like Phil Vickery and shoulders to match were downing another adult topi. This smorgasbord of game was illuminated by skies and light only the Mara can deliver and with the plains emptier than a terminal 5 baggage carousel.
There can never have been a better time to be here. Crisis, what crisis, the Mara never lets anyone down, as one guest remarked 'I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a unicorn being chased by a leopard on a bicycle' - miracles take longer to achieve but only on the fabled grasslands of the Mara can they even be contemplated. 'Spot' will return in June."
PLEASE SEE OUR WEB SITE FOR FURTHER PRICES AND AVAILABILITY OR CALL ON 020 7471 8780
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