Kenya Safari

I love to travel, but I've spent so much of the past 3 months in a suitcase, it is great to be home and settle for a while. Okay, so just give me a few days and I'll be ready to go again.  Actually, I think of all the women who ask, "How can you live in Saudi Arabia with all the restrictions on women?" It is a culture and worldview very different from ours and there are many things I do not understand, just as I imagine there are things that they do not understand about us -- there have been books written and still....  However, for every restriction, I can list one or more personal benefits.  A big one for me is the ability to travel in and experience far more parts of the world than we would otherwise have an opportunity to see, and at a much more reasonable cost than if we were in the US.  For example, in just under a year, we have visited 9 different countries: USA, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, St Lucia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Italy and now Kenya.  We are from the US and we now live in Saudi, but of the remaining 7 countries, only one of them had I (but not Roberto) been to before.

We just returned from our most recent trip to Kenya where we had an amazing time on a Safari. While exploring the land, there were so many different things on my mind to write about and now I am blank so I'll just post a few pictures.

I have a better idea! Click on Selection of Kenya Safari Photos to easily see a nice selection of our photos. Wish we had a SLR camera, but between our little digital camera and my cell phone we took lots of great pictures.

The following is a pretty good list, though not all inclusive, of what we saw from our jeep as pointed out to us by our guide:

Spring Hare, Dik-dik, Lion, Mongoose, Warthog, Jackal, Hyena, Vervet Monkey, Baboon, Cape Buffalo, Flamingo, Pelican, Various Antelope, Topi, Wildebeest, Eland, Giraffe, Zebra, Bushbuck, Grants Gazelle, Thompson Gazelle, Impala, Elephant, Black Rhinoceros, White Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Crocodile, Hartebeest, Waterbuck, African Fish Eagle, Yellow Bill Stork, White Stork, White-necked a/k/a Wooly-necked Stork, Lilac-breasted Roller, Heron, Duck, Swan, Ostrich, Steppe Eagle, Kingfisher and more I couldn't get down or understand the name.

The animals were amazing and beautiful, but the landscape itself was also spectacular and the views breath taking.  We were continuously surprised at how quickly it changed as we drove even short distances.  Desert bush and thorns, to green bushes and trees, to open grass lands, to marsh and back again.  Enjoy our Selection of Kenya Safari Photos.