Spot of the Week - Cross,examined
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Timing ...it's everything, and we have a gnu guide in town who knows everything about this. Karibu Nicholas.
Wildebeest crashing across the perilous chocolate waters of the Mara river, have been going on for millennia. However, this doesn't neuter the allure of this captivating spectacle.
📍Kicheche Mara North
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Your week’s safari with Kicheche conserves 18 acres of wildlife habitat annually by funding community leases through your conservancy fees. This ensures the health and biodiversity of this fertile yet delicate ecosystem. In the communities around our camps, 1580 Masai families directly benefit from Wildlife Conservancy land leases. We regularly support wildlife and anti-poaching projects like Mara Predator Project and the Mara Elephant Project.
We are at the onset of becoming carbon neutral with the launch of our local reforestation project. Kicheche values environmental conservation and offers you an opportunity to travel with a zero footprint.
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Leopard Sankuet, dappled doyenne of Kicheche Camps Mara Naboisho Conservancy having a quiet word with the raucous ring - necked dove. 📍Kicheche Valley Naboisho with guide Roon Bernard Soit #wildaboutkichec
Nature's Interpreter
Meet Kicheche Laikipia guide, Simon Alepelo Lomelo, and hear what guiding means to him and his journey so far.
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Why Conservancies?
Kenya’s Community Conservancies are a sustainable model of wildlife conservation and a benchmark for tourism. Many of you have appreciated the biodiversity and the variety of species supported by these protected lands first-hand, returning year after year to get your safari fix from the hills, luggas and plains that have become your own back yard.
* 25% of Kicheche's revenue funds the guardianship, protection and
maintenance of 250,000 acres of the finest wildlife habitat in the world.
* $250 per guest allocated to wildlife conservation and community projects.
* Founding members of our THREE Masai Mara Conservancies ensuring
150,000 acres of wildlife habitat is preserved.
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Spot of the Week - Final Approach
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Spending hours with the lions requires patience. They spend much of their time asleep or lazily ambling around. When they attack they often fail, advancing in poor formation with little control.
However, when they do wake up and get properly active, there are few more exhilarating sights. To hear them roar however, particularly together, is well worth the wait. Enough of the England football team for now though.
Naboisho Conservancy is not Dortmund. However, the orange wall of noise from this Lemek forward line as they took on the Rongai defence was almost visceral in its intensity.
Many say the most potent of the senses is hearing, so be sure to turn this up. It could be heard from near and
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Spot of the Week - Fruits of their Labour
Laikipiahh - An Elevated Experience
Kicheche Laikipia - An Elevated Experience ...
When you combine high-altitude plains and the distant snow-capped peak of Mount Kenya you are clearly talking Kicheche Laikipia.
Everything here is elevated and rarefied: sights, smells, and tastes.
There really is nowhere like it.
Rare pleasures, rare excitement, and rare animals. This being the [black rhinos’] most populous stronghold
There is nowhere better in Africa to view this conservation success story, never forgetting that at one stage their shrinking numbers were down to the wire…
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Spot of the Week - Lions. Share.
Just after a squall washed over the Iseketa pride, the alpha female rose from the sodden oat grass and stepped out onto the Conservancy road with the rest of the lean-bellied pride following in late afternoon anticipation. In the distance a young buffalo bellowed in pain. The lioness immediately sprinted towards the evident drama a kilometre away....
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Hip Hippo Ray ...
for this heart warming scene for Johnson and his guests today.
This 3 week old hippo calf sampled its first grass before returning to the water to suckle on mothers milk underwater. They close their eyes and nostrils and keep feeding while submerged. Calves continue to suckle for up to 8 months when they can start to graze at a safe distance from their mother.
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Having kittens...
at Bush and Mara Camp today
Guides Charles ( Bush Olare) and Jimmy (Mara North) and their guests were greeted by new families of serval cats as their kittens emerged out of the long grass. Very special sightings indeed.
Serval cats reproduce throughout the year with peaks in the wet season (spring to summer), that coincide with the annual increase in rodent populations.
Gestation (pregnancy) is two to two and a half months and two to three kittens are born on average in a litter. Serval kittens become independent at six to eight months but will often remain near the mother for at least a year.
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After the rains - a new season begins
A wilderness awakening @kicheche_safari_camps
Explosion of green incoming! Kicheche conservancies are bursting with life.
It is time to get #wildaboutkicheche.
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Spot of the Week - And Rest
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Season's 'Sonnet'
Proper safaris are unpredictable, things are often not what they appear
But that’s Kicheche’s ideology: whether in the Mara Conservancies or Laikipia
Heartfelt feelings are elicited whether a sunrise walk or gazelle’s early dance
But whilst the animal kingdom can be fickle, no-one arrives here by chance
It’s because it’s special, it’s hard to get it out of your head
Greg and Paul thought this 24 years ago, casing real estate in a dry river bed
Look how the rangers patrol these areas, faces weathered to burnished teak
They know this is worth looking after, something for their kids to call unique
The moments could be a giraffe giving birth or a lion with a heavy load
Everything made so much more exciting by being able to drive off-road
No limits on opening hours, so often something a game park really lacks
And no corralling or hustling of animals with a five vehicle max.
Then there are the dawns and dusks, always different always resplendent
As is Kicheche, sensitive and sustainable and still fiercely independent
There’s more: ground coffee with lions and freshly baked pancakes or buns
Or a dinner taken under the real stars but worthy of Michelin ones
Miracles of nature blend perfectly with Sharon’s delightful gin bar
A prequel to the concussion of lions rumbling at night, often not very far
We may have signal but no TV, Netflix or cable
We are not harnessed by wires, fences or at worst a strict timetable
This is your safari, your faunal fix, we don’t mind if you leave in tears
Because you swallow the ethic whole and return year after year
The highlights are bounteous, not by the glass but in seasoned vats
Each have their favourites: whether rhino, birds or cats
In six weeks for our 25th season, we’ll be opening the canvas door
And be welcoming new arrivals, some with two legs, some four
So as we sign off just one thing, it is not pronounced ‘c
Spot of the Week - Barrett Homes
Meet Richard Barrett, it looks like he knows his F-Stops from his bus stops. Richard has spent a good chunk of this year across all of Kicheche's stable. Not for the first time either.
Richard, we salute you and cordially invite all 'Spotters' to gorge themselves from this superb selection and show reel.
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What a night cap.
Guests enjoyed their sundowners with this beautiful bull seemingly doing his ablutions before bed.
Brilliant spot from Kicheche Laikipia guide @peterkaringithi
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Exceptional Lawnmowers
- Southern White Rhino
In Ol Pejeta conservancy, a sanctuary for rhinos, there are currently 44 southern white rhinos. Since 2005, the first rhinos were brought to Ol Pejeta. These southern whites played a crucial role in assisting the translocated northern white rhinos from Dvur Kralove Zoo in adapting to their new African environment when they arrived from the Czech Republic in 2009. By introducing the newcomers to various groups of wild southern whites in their natural habitat, it stimulated their innate behaviors. As time passed, these natural characteristics became more evident, ultimately encouraging the northern white rhinos to start mating.
📍Kicheche Laikipia I Kicheche Camps, Ol Pejeta Conservancy
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Wilderness awakening
Lighting up time in Mara Naboisho Conservancy with the magnificent Rongai's on patrol.
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Kicheche Mara resident leopard Ndoto having a workout by the camp stream.
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Breakfast of champions
A few Tuskers with breakfast is a great way to kickstart your (Big) five-a-day.
Huge herd this morning enjoying the fruits of Mara North.
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