Krumel Says: Two of these guys were walking along the road ahead of us, occasionally turning around to see if we were still sneaking up on them.
Krumel Says: Our team was based at Galla Camp, a tented camp in the privately owned Taita/Rukinga Wildlife Conservancy between Tsavo East and West National Parks. The camp consists of six twin tents, covered by a thatched roof and each with its own little terrace. Most of them are...
Krumel Says: Our nightlife in those two weeks consisted mainly of watching out for big yellow lion eyes to be reflected by the spotlight, but on our last evening we interrupted our game drive for sundowners at Kisima. We climbed the rock with our bottles of Tusker beer and waited for the...
Krumel Says: I had learnt a bit of Swahili for a few months before going to Tsavo and tried to put it into practice when I was there. While I usually got across what I wanted to say it was a different story understanding it when someone spoke to me. When one of our guides found out that...
Krumel Says: The peaceful appearance of the waterhole just below Galla Camp is rather deceptive, as it is inhabited by three crocodiles, so no skinny-dipping here! Not that the water looks THAT invitingly, anyway...
Krumel Says: Being a private ranch all of the Taita/Rukinga Wildlife Conservancy is off the beaten path which meant that whatever wildlife we found, we had it all for ourselves, unlike in the big parks where a whole convoy of cars will congregate around one animal. Even though they don't...
Krumel Says: The best thing of course was when at the beginning of our second week the big day finally arrived and we saw our first (and last) lions. We had just arrived back at camp from our evening drive when the guys from the other vehicle radioed us to say that they spotted two male...
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Meeting interesting people from different walks of life that I would never have met in my everyday life, and making some great new friends.
Q: My husband Mark and I have a week to fill between 22-27th Dec. We will be en route from Nairobi to Diani Beach and are looking for...
A: If you want to be in Tsavo itself, getting into touch with a local community is not that easy - the parks do not have any permanent settlement, so the only local people...
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In November 2002 I joined another Earthwatch team, this time to collect data on maneless lions. Tsavo's lions are special in that also the males have either no manes at all, or maybe just a very...
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I've got some interesting experiences in Tsavo National Park. I'd love to share with you the 0 tips I've written, the 4 photos uploaded, and 1 travelogue I've created.
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TSAVO EAST & WEST - NOVEMBER 2002

The color of the soil in Tsavo East makes the elephants there red. They are the famous red elephants of Tsavo!
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A couple of lions (male and female) chase and kill a zebra and feed themselves. The male lion prepare the best part of the meal for the female, wait for her to be ready and then eats what's available!...
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