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[Another OTR submission of a 10-day trek along the Tsavo & Galana Rivers in southern Kenya.]

Our guide has been running these walking safaris for 40 years, so would share amazing stories over dinner each night. One of my favorites was his description of Bill Woodley (an early Tsavo East Warden instrumental in removing elephant poachers from the park, sometimes by dropping grenades from his airplane) and Woodley’s role in getting permission for the safari outfit to hike through the parks. We saw no one on our daily treks and only a vehicle or two total across all the evening drives. Thus most animals were not inured to having vehicles and people milling about unlike Maasi Mara (which was lovely in its own way).

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

If you look carefully you’ll notice an impala carcass hanging from the left side of the tree.  Pulled up there by a leopard to secure its meal away from hyenas…

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

Closer view.

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

During the evening drive we saw a herd of Cape Buffalo, an egret, Red Billed Quilia (my favorite), Helmeted Guinea Fowl, and an African Hawk Eagle (our driver, Simon, was great with birds).  We then came across some elephant ‘children’ who’d been having fun in a watering hole.

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

And didn’t appreciate being rousted.

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

So there!

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GALANA RIVER.

Early morning view upriver.  Open, dry landscape with palm trees along the river.  Saw many elephant groups while on foot in defensive posture with ears out facing us, and trunk up to listen & smell…

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GALANA RIVER.

View downriver.  The river now is quite wide and fairly deep, with lots of elongate bars to stumble over…

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EVENING DRIVE / EIPYA CHAPEYU CAMP.

Definitely Harry Potter trees.  At sunset.

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    way2blue

    @eclare: I have one more segment to submit…  After Tsavo we visited Lamu Island in the Indian Ocean for a few days.  From Wikipedia:

    one of the longest established, and best preserved remaining settlements of the Swahili tradition in east Africa that remains today. The island has continually been inhabited for over seven hundred years, and continues to be an important center in eastern Africa

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