Advantages: Not as many tourists as other parks, good facilities in the Hotel. Disadvantages: No big cats, the Masai have "removed" them !
...a long weekend in the Amboseli Game Reserve as a thank you for helping him out at such short notice (his usual travelling companion was ill and sadly couldn't go).
Nairobi is very high up and I started suffering from altitude sickness within a day or so of arriving there (it's about the same height as Jo'burg, around 6000ft asl). We got the exhibition out of the way (easy peasy), and then we hired a minibus and driver to take us to Amboseli and ... ...THEN we were told why Amboseli is not *such* a popular game park - the Masai who live in the park had killed off all of the big cats to protect their cattle. No big cats then..... We looked forward to another day of elephants...........
The food at the Hotel was superb, as if they had imported the best French chefs to come and cook for us. Fabulous roasts of local beasties including zebra, impala, gazelle and ostrich, that's me sorted..... and the ...
g8ina 11.05.2004
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