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 | Jun 9, 2019 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
This was an amazing experience we had in Maasai Mara. We saw how much of patience is required by Lions while they go about stalking and killing a prey. And they are not always successful! In this instance, it was truly incredible to watch a Lioness patiently stalk a...
by Thomas | May 12, 2019 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
After the amazing sighting of Black Rhinoceros, we headed back to the Serena Lodge, content that we had seen the Big 5. On our way back, we spotted this small pride of sleeping African Lions. All in all, it was a fantastic morning drive! The evening game drive...
by Thomas | Jan 6, 2019 | Africa, Amboseli, Animals, Bandipur, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kenya, South India, Tadoba, Valparai
In this first post of 2019, we want to pause and look back at the best of Walk the Wilderness in 2018. The most popular post of 2018 in terms of number of hits was the rare sighting of mating Hyenas in Amboseli National park. The Wagdoh male – probably the...
by Thomas | Aug 5, 2018 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
It was a rainy afternoon in the Maasai Mara National Park and we we set out on our safari. We were headed towards one corner of the park where a couple of African Lions had been spotted in the morning. While we were photographing the Lions, we got a call saying a...
by Thomas | May 13, 2018 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
We started this morning game drive in Maasai Mara with the intention of spotting a Leopard. And Emmanuel our driver brought us to the area where he had spotted a Leopard a few times. We were very excited and searched the area for over on hour. As we were about to give...
by Thomas | Jan 14, 2018 | Africa, Amboseli, Animals, Featured, Kenya
While Amboseli National Park is not known for its huge clans of Hyenas, we did spot a couple of den sites. The first one was described in post on Egyptian Geese in Amboseli. We did run into another small clan of Hyenas haggling over an old carcass. But the rarest...
by Thomas | Aug 6, 2017 | Africa, Amboseli, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya
The swamps of Amboseli attract many species of birds to the national park. In fact many of them are full time residents of the park. And one species found in large numbers at the water’s edge feeding on the fresh grass shoots is the Egyptian Goose. This time, we...
