Posted on July 25, 2009 by Pardesi
Henry Mancini composed the classic tune Baby Elephant Walk for the Howard Hawkes film Hatari (1962). Needless to say the baby elephants overshadowed Bwana Wayne and the wet young Martinelli.
In Nairobi I had the chance to visit the David Sheldrick project that shelters and raises orphaned animals.
We arrived just in [...]
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Posted on July 16, 2009 by Pardesi
My recent trip to Kenya took me out of Nairobi and on the Nairobi Kampala road towards the Great Rift Valley. Traveling on the smooth highway in fast flowing traffic took us past many small towns with their unique street markets:
The road to the Rift Valley Lodge veered off the main highway and [...]
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