by Thomas | Apr 4, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
During one of our evening game drive in Maasai Mara, we had a chance sighting of a Steppe Eagle. It was equally surprised to see us at such close distance, before it flew away. Given that this visit to Mara was many months after the Annual Migration was over, the...
by Thomas | Mar 7, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
The famous Cheetah brothers who we have been following along the Maasai Mara-Serengeti border, were going about their patrolling business. We hoped that they would not cross over into Serengeti as we would not be able to follow them. Lucky for us, they decided to take...
by Thomas | Feb 7, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
We spotted the famous Cheetah Brothers of Maasai Mara in their favourite area, the Kenya-Tanzania border. This time around the brothers seemed to be actively involved in patrolling their territory. They were frantically sniffing the scent of a probable intruder. I...
by Thomas | Jan 10, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
During our last trip to Maasai Mara, on our first game drive in the afternoon, I noticed Emanuel our driver/naturalist heading towards the Mara Serena Airstrip. I enquired to find out the reason and he pointed out that he had seen some African Lions in the area and...
by Thomas | Jan 1, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha, Kenya, Maasai Mara, Nagarhole, Serengeti, South India, Tanzania
Happy 2021 to all of you! Keeping in line with our practice of reliving the best wildlife moments of 2020, we have put together a compilation of the best experience we had in each of our favourite locations. The best wildlife experience of 2020 has a clear winner in...
by Thomas | Dec 20, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
The bold African Leopard that we described in our previous post, turned out to be one of the best Leopard sightings in Serengeti National Park. But the most memorable sighting was when we saw an African Leopard take down a Wildebeest. What makes this sighting...
by Thomas | Dec 6, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
Our search for a good sighting of an African Leopard in Serengeti was finally answered on our last drive into Serengeti National Park. We heard over the radio that a Leopard was spotted on a tree in Central Serengeti and we drove to that area to find this beautiful...
by Thomas | Nov 8, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
This a follow-up story of a previous post where we had featured a Cheetah mother with two of her cubs in Serengeti. The Cheetah mother was on one side of the road while her cubs were stranded on the other side. They were frightened of the safari vehicles on the road...
by Thomas | Oct 18, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
During one of our safaris into the Serengeti National Park, we saw a lone vehicle parked on the tracks, a tell tale sign that something had been sighted. When we got closer, we saw a Cheetah sitting in the grass not far from the road. The Cheetah looked restless and...
by Thomas | Sep 27, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
On this safari in the Serengeti National Park, there was some chatter coming over the wireless and Eric, our guide and driver, pointed out that a herd of African Lions were seen, not far away from where we were. We decided to check them out. When we reached the...
