East African Safari and the Big Five

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East African Safari : Here's why you should take a Safari to East Africa. If you're a tourist in the East Africa region, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, then a “safari” should be on top of your 'to do list'. Kenya has a considerable land area of wildlife habitat and the search for the 'Big Five' in the Maasai Mara, in particular lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinoceroses and elephants, is one of Kenya’s biggest attractions. Tanzania and Kenya are also the setting for one of the natural wonders of the world: the great wildebeest migration. Ungulates migrate from the Serengeti (from neighbouring Tanzania) to the Maasai Mara in Kenya, in search of food and water supply. Those undocumented migrants are followed along their annual, circular route by hungry predators, most notably lions and hyenas.

There are a considerable number of national parks and game reserves spread around the country, but visitors and tourist companies normally concentrate their activities on a certain few, leaving a number of remote protected paradises almost untouched by the tourist industry, which are only accessible for adventurous travellers.

East African Safari

East African Safari

East African safari

East African safari

East African Safari

East African Safari

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Images courtesy of @Ignacios Hennigs. Original publication in TAP ISSUE 4