Fotoreise Kenya
It was the best experience so far in a foreign country for me. The first time wildlife photography and then being able to be so close to the animals. What overwhelmed me was the ease of animals towards humans. If you behaved respectfully, you could hardly see any shyness.
The trip started in the Samburu Reserve in the north, where we saw large herds of reticulated giraffes and elephants. We were also able to take pictures of a group of cheetahs, Generuk, DikDik, Impala, various lizards, monkeys, the rare Somali ostrich and many beautiful small and large birds.
Then we drove to a sensational reserve dedicated to the protection of rhinos - the Solio Wildlife Sanctuary. - My personal paradise -. In addition to the wonderful rhinos, we also found waterbucks, gazelles and antelopes, buffalo, baboons, cranes and the African spoonbill. Fortunately, the rhinos are so well protected here that they can keep their magnificent horns.
The trip continued to Lake Nakuru, where we actually wanted to photograph flamingos, but there weren't any, as the flooding had thinned the lake so much that the flamingos couldn't find any food and moved to another lake. We found many zabras and baboons, darters and cormorants, pelicans and a pair of lions, which we didn't even let us disturb during their shepherd's hour.
Then finally we drove to our last part of the trip - the Masai Mara. Fortunately, the Masai Mara is still a paradise for all wild animals. There was probably not an hour in which we did not have an animal sighting. I hope that it will continue to do so and that climate change will not take away the livelihoods of these wonderful animals. We could see lions - a pack of young animals that had killed a giraffe. Hyenas, black-backed jackals, marabou and vultures fighting over the remains. A large group of maragiraffes provided wonderful motifs and in the short time of sunset we managed to capture the giraffe siluettes, while the next very early morning we managed to photograph a very short but sensational sunrise near a lonely tree in the steppe with birds and hot air balloons . The topi were real 'posers' for us and always brought themselves into very decorative compositions. The hippos were not far from our tent camp in the Olate Orok River, so you could hear them snorting while lying in the tent. I liked the warthogs, which when running, stuck their tails up like antennas. We found many different antelopes and gazelles and not to forget all the other small animals, such as mongooses, small lizards and again an incredible number of different birds.