Our last destination on this leg of our adventure is samburu national park where we will be staying at the elephant tent camp. After paying our park fees we made it to our camp for the next few days. The elephant tent camp is just as it sounds but we stay in 5 star tents and eat good meals. Safaris are usually active in the early morning on late afternoon so upon arrival we settled in and had lunch before we left our our safari at 4:00. I must mention that we have had the same driver/guide and vehicle since we left niabroi. Here the drivers are with you 24/7 along your drive which is awesome to have as they know the animal locations and local language. So Thanks, Joshua. While waiting to leave for our safari an elephant walked right past our tent and we had monkeys trying to get in. We are literally in the middle of no where but have Wi-Fi of course.
On our afternoon safari we say a bunch of different types of gazelles and antalope. Elephants. Giraffes. Zebras and birds. But to see the big five we needed to find a leaphord and lion. With no luck we headed back to camp for supper and to get up early to try again.
The next morning we left at 6:30am for our morning safari. After a short while will spotted a leaphord walking in the dried up river. It was beautiful. It doesn't tale long for word to get around that a leaphord had been spotted as vehicles came from all over.
They are experiencing what is expected to be the worst drought in 60 years. Huge rivers are almost completely dry. Many animals have moved on looking for water while some die from lack of water. It is a very sad situation with no man made fix available. I ask all of you to add Africa to your prays for rain as they desperately need it.
After seeing the leaphord we were pretty excited but little did we know that we would be finished up seeing the big 5 with a lioness hunting a small zebra. We could tell the lioness had babies recently. Of course once again vehicles came from everywhere to watch the hunt which slowed the lioness down. After a while of watching and waiting we decided to leave her be.
At the night hunt we were fortunate enough to spot another leaphord along with seeing the same lioness and her kill, a small zebra. They are beautiful creatures.
Along with seeing lots of monkeys and baboons (Lyndins cousins) we ended our day at sunset with drinks.
Tomorrow we take off back to niabroi after we stop at a local dairy to see their operation.
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