There was that time my friend and I went on a Safari in Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya...on a bike! Now, how exactly we were planning on escaping the buffalos and lions on a bike in case they charged I don't recall. But I do recall definitely seeing buffalos (why do they allow for independant bike safaris again?!). We were fortunate enough to not have to consider this little safety issue at any point.

We ditched our bikes at one point and started walking down through some of the most beautiful clifs I have ever seen - ones that made the perfect setting for playing around with our cameras!

Eventually we did have to face the disadvantage of hopping on a bike through the African wilderness though. No, I don't mean getting charged at by a wild aggressive animal - but we did have to drag our flat tired bikes all the way back through the park. And that's when you realise just how far you get on a bike, when you drag it by herds of wild animals eyeing you suspiciously!

There was that time we went on a safari in the Masaai Mara in Kenya (as one does, because lions, leopards, elephants, and so on). We had booked a four day safari through our hostel in Nairobe. My friend, Nikolaj, and I teamed up with a German couple to make a four person group, and then we set off out into the wild expecting to be dazzled by the sights of animals in the thousands. It was August and hence migration season, so we weren't disappointed. Wilderbeasts, in particular, were everywhere!

The Maasai Mara was probably the most amazing example I have ever seen of an African savannah roaming with life, although I felt somewhat ambivalent about not being able to cuddle up to the animals - a weird version of "normal" I had picked up while working hands-on with wild animals in Namibia on two occasions in the previous years.

There was that time when we were on a safari in the Tsavo West National Park and we got chased by angry elephant mother. We were in our car watching some grown elephants and a baby by the road side. Out of nowhere we were suddenly being chased down the road by a charging angry elephant mother, because, as we realised way too soon, the baby was on one side of the road, the mother on the other. By driving through in our car, we were effectively coming between the protective mother and her baby. Elephants don't take it lightly when they think their babies are threatened. Stepping on the speader, we barely made it out of the situation in one piece. WOW😮