The wheels of our safari van spun deeper into the mud. Truly stuck this time on the African plains of the Maasai Mara game reserve, we had to get out and push while keeping an eye on two male lions about 30 yards away. [...]
Hyenas broke into our camp’s food supply during the night. The Maasai ran them off—as well as a lion. That’s what I heard anyway. I slept through it all. Tall and lean, several warriors of the Maasai tribe guarded our campsite. Silent and serious, [...]
We headed into the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. Its vast ridge of volcanoes and lakes cut a bumpy north/south seam across a savannah of tall grass and scrub. An occasional Acacia tree stood alone on a flat section of plain, offering an umbrella [...]
Travel nostalgia: Semester at Sea is a floating campus, a unique study abroad program where the world is your classroom. So many memories… We took an overnight train, straight out of the 1950s, to Nairobi. Behind us, we left the port city of Mombasa where our [...]
