I’m in the Masai Mara for the great annual zebra/wildebeest/tourist migration. The migration climax is when the herds ford the crocodile infested Mara River, so I spent a morning watching at a crossing point. There weren’t many wildebeest crossing that day, but I saw two herds of zebra cross. There were crocs waiting, so the […]
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Masai Mara: Zebra Crossings
August 20, 2015
Gorilla, Gorilla, Woops
August 11, 2015
I’ve been on two Mountain Gorilla treks in the last week, one in DR Congo and one in Rwanda. I got to see two family groups and watch a lot of relaxed interaction and play, which was extremely cool. In the Virunga National Park in DR Congo, I visited the Humba family. By chance I […]
DR Congo: Nyiragongo
August 6, 2015
“I survived Nyiragongo, but he ate my camera.” When I was about ten, I had a very clear idea of what a Real Volcano should look like. A steep cone, with a razor sharp rim and sheer cliffs down to an inner caldera with a bubbling pool of lava. Aah, it is to dream. Nyiragongo […]
Kashgar: Ancient City Walls
May 14, 2015
I’m in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, in North-West China, famous for its wonderfully preserved Ancient City Walls. Or rather, about to become famous, as the Ancient City Walls are still under construction. They’re coming along well, and in just a year to two I expect the tour guides will be enthusiastically showing […]
Kazakhstan: The Aral Sea
May 4, 2015
Yesterday, upon the steppes, I saw a sea which wasn’t there… The Aral Sea ship graveyard near Zhalanash used to host a dozen beached fishing trawlers. They had fled from the port of Aralsk as the sea dried up, but then, with nowhere else to flee, had been abandoned at Zhalanash. Most of the ships […]
Quito: Equatorial Spin
February 13, 2015
I’m at the little Museo Intinan on the equator, near Quito, Ecuador. Our guide is enthusiastically demonstrating exciting scientific facts about the Equator! She positions a basin on the Equator line, pours water in, pulls the plug, and we watch the water drop straight down without spinning. She moves the basin a few feet North, […]
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