Elephant Back Safaris

An elephant back safari is not just a ride on the largest animal in Africa, it’s an unforgettable experience where clients get to interact with the elephants as well as enjoy a ride through wilderness areas and beautiful riverine scenery.

“If you only do one Safari in your entire life, this is the one” - CNN

While Indian elephants have long been used to carry people on their backs, riding their much larger and wilder African cousins has always been seen as too dangerous. But with tame animals raised by humans, elephant-back safaris are quite safe, and the perfect way to move silently through the bush viewing game. Read more

The Honey Badger Is The World’s Most Fearless Animal

The Honey Badger found in arid grasslands and savannahs is a fierce carnivore with an extremely keen sense of smell. It is well know for its snake killing abilities. It grabs a snake including pythons and venomous species behind the head in its jaws and kills it before eating it. Read more

Africa’s Most deadly Creatures

Africa forges creatures with incredible power. Most of Africa’s population live South of the sahara desert.
One creature reigns supreme. it is the snake. With over 400 species on this continent and 90 venomous.

King Cobra
At 1.5 meters long this is neither the biggest not the longest snake found in africa. It definetley comes close to the title of longest posionous snake. Every year this snake kills more people in South Africa than any other. one bite can kill a human. Read more

Climate change robs African lions of their manes

Kenya’s king of the jungle. the lion is losing its mane, a phenomenon that has been linked to the effects of climate change by scientists at the Kenya Wildlife Service.

The new development adds to mounting global evidence that climate change and irresponsible use of chemicals which turn into pollutants are altering evolution with the most affected being males including humans.Last month scientists reviewed over 250 studies worldwide and concluded that that males species are being feminised by pollution in their environments. 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

Lake Baringo National Reserve

J.W. Gregory, an English geologist who travelled to the Rift Valley on foot from the Kenyan coast of Mombasa first set eyes on Lake Bogoria in 1892 and described the scene as “the most beautiful view in Africa”. The late Leslie Brown, a world authority on birds, and birds of prey in particular, wrote “I have been there when the spectacle of flamingos and other birds around the lake was of a sublime magnificence”. Read more

How The Major Hen Protects Her Own

The ostrich is not only Africa’s, but the world’s largest living bird. Being unable to fly it is therefore forced to make its nest in a scrape on the ground. Ostrich eggs weigh about 1.5 kgs each and makes a meal  not to be despised by even such large predators like the jackals, hyenas and lions too. Major hazards to survival call for special measures to combat them. Therefore, the ostrich has evolved a highly unusual pattern of breeding and incubating. Read more

Rocks And Earth Provide A Balanced Diet

Many animals get the energy from the food they eat;they may still lack vitamins and minerals which must be
sought elsewhere.For some African elephants salts that are essential dietary supplement are provided by volcanic ash. Read more

Chimps Know How To Take Their Medicine

Animals,like most humans resort to some form of medicine when feeling ill. Chimpanzees have been linked to eating of certain plants with relief of sickness.

Occasionally,chimpanzees eat a few leaves of Aspilia plants, which are rather like sunflowers, in the early morning. Unlike their usual mode of eating, they do not gulp them down but carefully massage the leaves in their mouth for about 15 seconds without chewing, then swallowing them whole. Read more

The Wildebeest

Wildebeests can be found in most parks in Eastern and Southern Africa. The best place to see these creatures would be in East Africa.

‘Every year between july and November, up to 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of other animals, including about 600,000 zebras and 200,000 Thomposon’s gazelles, move in a large herd between Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Masai mara in Kenya. Read more

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