Every family I plan a safari for asks the same question early on. “Which are the malaria-free national parks in Kenya?” It’s a fair question, and most blog posts answer it badly. They lump the Masai Mara in with genuinely low-risk parks like Laikipia, because altitude sounds reassuring and nobody wants to check the numbers. […]
It is 2 a.m. and something outside your tent lets out a long, wheezy honk, then what sounds almost like a laugh. Your youngest sits bolt upright. You freeze. That grunt-honk-wheeze pattern is almost always a hippo, and if your tent is anywhere near the Mara River, the Ewaso Nyiro or the Talek River, you […]
I get this question a lot from mothers planning a breastfeeding baby Kenya safari trip. “Can I really nurse my baby through a two week Kenya safari?” Short answer: yes. I have watched dozens of mothers do exactly this. One fed her son on the back seat of a Land Cruiser while a herd of […]
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