Day 3 Arijiju, Borana

We started the day by saying goodbye to Angama, Amboselli. We enjoyed our last breakfast at the beautiful lodge, sitting on the deck watching animals in the reserve.

After a delicious meal, we were in the truck and on our way to the air strip. It is hilarious when you near the airstrip because there is a car there clearing the strip of all the animals. In no time we were on the plane and heading toward Borana.

Borana is another conservancy North East of the equator, and near Mount Kenya. We had no idea what we were in for. We are staying at a private home that is called Arijuju. The home is incredible, and it makes us want to just stay here. Fortunately, we have our trusted guide Paulo, a wildlife photographer and guide. Paulo convinces us we will not be disappointed going out on the game drive. Of course this is why we are here, so we are happy to go out.

Our drive this afternoon was through beautiful rolling green hills. The grass is waist high and can hide most anything. We drove off the road and into the tall grass scanning backing forth looking at the gazelle and zebra.

The zebra started scattering, and our local guide Ekai knew there was a lion around. We continued looking around the area. Out of the grass appeared this majestic beast.

After seeing this lion, we named the first lion we saw in Amboselli, Scar. Scar was battle warn and banged up.

Again, we were so close to him, yet he looked right through us. We couldn’t understand why he looked right through us. Paulo told us it was because they see the truck as one unit. He said if you stuck your arms out they would look at it differently.

As we sat watching the lion, another lion appeared. We all thought they were going to fight. We couldn’t believe there were two males in the same area.

We watched the one walk up to the other and greeted him playfully. They laid down together, and then took a nap.

Come to find out they are brothers. There are four brothers in the Borana area, and they all work together.

We watched them for a while and then moved on looking for a leopard. There was one spotted in the area earlier in the day, and we hoped we were going to find him.

After driving around the tall grass for a little while and no leopard spotting, we returned to the lions. We startled them and then were surprised ourselves.

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We finished the evening drive by having a “sun downer” (Kenya’s way of saying sunset cocktail). We were up on a hill over looking Borana. It was stunning. As the sun went down the sky was full of gold and blue stripes

Paulo did not disappoint. We had another fantastic day in the bush.