A late start on Kilimanjaro

When I first saw Mount Kilimanjaro, at the Kenyan border near Amboseli, the only thing that crossed my mind was: How the hell am I going to climb up there? Back home, when I was mulling over going to Tanzania, I wouldn’t have dared to dream of Africa’s highest peak. But as I read more and more stories by people…

Across the savanna

Wild animals can be a lot of fun! They sure seem to have fun in this video – across the savanna, from Amboseli and Tsavo in Kenya to Serengeti and Tarangire in Tanzania.

Stories with lions

At the onset of each dry season, the herbivores of the savanna begin to migrate north of the Serengeti plains, across the Tanzanian border and into the cooler and greener Maasai Mara hills of Kenya. When the rains return, they take the same route back. The wildebeest migration, which involves millions of animals traveling hundreds of miles in a matter…