Kenya Big game fishing

If you are like me then you must be weary of sport fishing and sport hunting. Off course those who do it will often urgue their case stating that even hunting of big game fishing takes conservation into consideration.

A great a popular form of big game fishing is Tag and release which is a form of catch and release fishing in which the angler attaches a tag to the fish, records data such as date, time, place, and type of fish on a standardized post card, and then releases his/her catch back to the sea.

Kenya offers the visiting angler an excellent chance of game fishing. Read more

Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert is a huge arid, desert area in southwestern, Sub-Saharan Africa extending 900,000 km² (362,500 sq. mi.), covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. The huge Kalahari Deserthas been a subject of much debate as to what the Kalahari actually is and what defines its borders - indeed, Kalahari sand extends all the way up into the Congo. Read more

Safari Game Drives

A safari game drive, is an african wildlife viewing experience using a Vehicle, and have been the conventional way to see Africa’s greatest landscapes and wildlife, and are in many cases one of the best. Some would urge that vehicles let you see more beacuse, your human scent and shape is disguised and you’re no longer seen as a threat: wild animals will let a vehicle much closer than they would a person on foot. It is easy to track game and, when you find it, a vehicle keeps you safe and secure. A four-wheel-drive vehicle will easily climb steep inclines to give access to great views and carry all the photographic equipment you might need, with plenty of handy places to keep your binoculars as well as a “cooler box” for soft drinks and sundowners. Read more

Namib Desert

The Namib Desert is a desert in Namibia and southwest Angola which forms part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. The desert is Africa’s second largest after the sahara desert. The name “Namib” is of Nama origin. Nama or Hottentot is the largest of the Khoisan languages and is spoken in parts of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia by approximately 233,701 people. Read more

Kruger National Park

As one of Africa’s top three safari destinations, the Kruger National Park offers visitors the iconic African safari experience. A dramatic destination with Africa’s big five, Lions, leopards, buffalo, rhino, and elephants together with thousands of other animals, play out against shifting backdrops of savannah, forest, river and mountain. Kruger is a diverse African safari experience. Read more

Sahara Desert

Imagine a place on Earth that gets so hot that you could only go without water for four hours. Pretty scary, uh?

That is Africa’s Sahara desert the world’s  largest desert if you don’t include the cold deserts of  Antarctica and the Arctic. Its parched, forbidding landscape took shape over thousands of years, but even today, the Sahara is constantly changing. Read more

Lake Turkana

Ask many people where the world’s largest permanent desert lake and the world’s largest alkaline lake is found and you will probably get answers like the sahara desert or in Califorinia. But did you know that it is actually found in Kenya?

Formerly known as Lake Rudolf, Lake Turkana is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. Read more

Police Foil 5 year old Children’s dash to Africa

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German children aged five, six and seven who said they were fed up with cold weather at home set off on a voyage to Africa but only got as far as the local train station, police said on Monday.

The boy and the older girl were planning to get married in Africa and brought the girl’s five-year-old sister along as a witness. They left their home in the city of Hanover, which they shared with the boy’s father and the girls’ mother, early on New Year’s Day as their parents slept. Read more

Lake Victoria

The second largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Victoria dominates the area with its 70,000 km2 surface.
The area is ideal for birdwatching as the lake attracts a variety of large water birds. Read more

Mount Kenya

The mountain is an extinct volcano standing alone, which last erupted between 2.6 and 3.1 million years ago. This mountain dominates the landscape of the Kenyan Highlands, East of the Rift Valley. Mt. Kenya lies about 140 km North, North-East of Nairobi with its Northern flanks across the Equator. The mountain has two main peaks - Batian (5200m) and Nelion (5188m). The mountains slopes are cloaked in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and snow. Mt. Kenya is an important water catchment area, supplying the Tana and Northern Ewaso Ngiro systems. Read more

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