A guest once asked me, on the drive out from Ol Kiombo airstrip, if she’d wasted her money leaving her Nikon at home. Twenty minutes later a leopard walked across the road in front of us, and she got the shot on her iPhone. Grainy, a little soft at the edges, but real. She still […]
A reader wrote to us last month, worried. She had found a “last chance” Maasai Mara migration package at half the price everyone else quoted, and the operator wanted a wire transfer to a personal account within 24 hours. She asked if this was normal. It was not: this is one of the classic safari […]
A guest of ours once bought a beaded bone necklace at a curio stall near the Mara for KES 800. If you have searched “customs rules safari souvenirs home,” this story is exactly why. It looked harmless, dyed beads, a leather cord, a small carved bead at the center. She wore it through three airports […]
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