The conservative African culture has for centuries marginalized women from undertaking errands that were considered male reserves. However, today the modern Africa has embraced the reality that cuts across almost every scope of life.
One of the most recent societal-ethics evolutions is Women Travel in Africa. Although the move was not received well in the early 20th century, the African society of 21st century has not just welcomed it but has treated it with premier salutation. Welcome to African Adventure Safaris for women travel, this unique off-the-beaten-track women safari in Kenya takes us into concealed ecotourism and wildlife conservation areas in East Africa to some of Kenya's most famous wildlife reserves and Africa game parks
For outdoors women looking for genuine active women travel that constitute guided game viewing walks, real off-the-beat track safaris with experience safari guides and exclusive accommodation, the women travel package with Masimba Safaris is the choice. As you transverse the enormity of the world's "oldest" continent, you will discover the theatrical wonders which unfold almost everywhere. This is Africa or what others call ‘Untamed Africa', the land that presents a melodic but ever-changing terra firma of extraordinary extremes. It is in Africa where ethnicity, wildlife, and wilderness co-exist in diverse, primal, spectacular and fragile customs.
Throughout our African Travel package for Women, you are inspired by the theatrical drama of extraordinary countryside and the liberal spirit of the Kenyan people. Our Women trips are carefully researched, custom-designed and combine the best in women's travel with safety, comfort, and unsurpassed in local cuisine.
In simple, we are a devoted team of wildlife and nature lovers' with great experience in running quality wildlife safaris right on the ground as we accompany clients on every safari package in East Africa.
With our experience to design and deliver your unique African vacation that combines guided game viewing with traditional vehicle safaris and safari nature and wildlife walks, we take you to see vast, almost biblical sceneries of the African plains and bush land and learn along the way of the African people, animals, birds and plants that live in this extraordinarily beautiful area in East Africa. The women Travel packages are exclusively designed for clients seeking one of a kind nature journeys rather than the hilarious package safaris covering all parks in Kenya. This in turn translates to; Flexible outdoor adventures by day, superb food and comfortable accommodation at night. It also means excellent game viewing and walking safaris that are designed for the active women who want more than just sitting in the bus all day.
The safari gives you the chance to try new things in a relaxed environment, Ideal fine cuisines and also go places and do things big groups can't do. You will also have an opportunity to meet with pals of your travel group before you travel. The African safaris are customized for women travelers to; embark on explorative adventures, gain insider's foretaste into local traditions and cultures, reconnect with nature, and learn more about themselves and others through the many places and people that they meet. Solo Adventure Women traveling on our trips often meet new friends for life and most of our guests often come back to us to sample our unique African Safaris every year.
The women travel package combines game safaris with beach safaris in the coastal town of Mombasa and Malindi for a maximum African experience, swimming in the warm ocean water, snorkeling, boat rides, diving, and dhow rides, kayaking, and sun bathing are among the diverse activities at the Kenyan Coast. All this is without mentioning implausible picnics and barbeque on island, wind surfing (in the reserve), and occasional beach clean up and research.
Whether you are snorkeling or scuba diving, you are sure to marvel at the under water beauty, or may just bump into other regular visitors to the Marine parks – this may include turtles feeding on the thallasia beds and dolphins feeding on shimmering schools of sardine. On the leeward side of north reef, there has a low coral cover with large schools of Barracuda and occasional reef sharks that are commonly encountered, as well as large rays that feed on the bottom.
Experienced women guides will be your hosts, not just for showing the wildlife and guiding the walks but as reliable companions who will give you imminent only a fellow woman can while they take care of the tour logistics, making sure everything runs smoothly and everybody has fun. Finally a safari in Masai Mara, the Africa that every one dreams of, is the grand finale of most vacations. A walk guided by Masai Morans is among the many highlights in women hiking vacation. The great annual migration of millions of zebra, wildebeest and other antelope top almost every list of safari experiences. The migration is an annual journey of hundreds of thousands of animals from the Serengeti in Tanzania, to the Masai Mara in Kenya.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Kenya Safari: Spectacular Wilderness Thrills of Marsabit
Surrounded by harsh environment, you may be exonerated to assume this remote national reserve is misplaced and its unique attractions far fetched by unknown phenomena. But you are mistaken; the real thrill is true, authentic and natural. On this northern frontier of Kenya arid spheres lay one of the most spectacular wilderness thrills and nature's most unique contrast. This is Lake Paradise in the greater Marsabit National Reserve and the ancient Marsabit town.
Marsabit town and its sanctuaries lie atop a mountain rising sheer from the desert floor to a height of about 1707 meters. The mountain is a natural phenomenon, born out of volcanic fire and shaped by mist where its great massive ranges and undulating peaks have created its own ambient climate.
Every evening, about midnight, the hot air rising from the desert floor cools and forms clinging fingers of mist, which grasp the mountain slopes, rarely releasing their grip until the late part of the morning. Mount Marsabit is famous for the dreamy waters of Lake Paradise which are located on its peak, for the foothills of rugged grandeur that fan out from its volcanic craters, and for the cloud forests which shelter both greater kudu and an ancient dynasty of elephants famous for their huge tusks.
Although the lower slopes of the mountain are scorched and dry, above them are richly forested wonderlands of crater lakes, swamps, towering cliffs and giant trees, all with an astounding display of wildlife and magnificent scenic views. Here bird and beast dart between the tall stands of juniper and podocarpus in a scene much as wildlife filmmakers Osa and Martin Johnson recorded when they made their home at Lake Paradise, one of the crater lakes, in the 1920's.
Many species of raptors inhabit the shaggy cliffs and the treetops around Lake Paradise and Sokorte Guda, a cliff lined bowl, which forms a natural amphitheatre in which Marsabit's elephants parade to drink in the late afternoon. Large herds of buffalo and other ungulates join this display. Other species found on the mountain include the shy greater kudu and other antelope as well as lions and leopards.
On the road south from Mount Marsabit to the rocky plains, the area is home to Sociable Weaver birds, which can be identified by their neater, tidier nests; Sparrow Weavers, with their "scruffier" nests; and white-bellied turacos. The area also unfolds indescribable natural phenomenon while passing through extraordinary Strangler figs in the mountain-top forest. This displays a stark contrast to the dusty track below which is lined by low, flat-topped acacias. Bird watching is a popular activity in this area.
For an estimated 63 years, Marsabit National Park and Reserve was the home of Ahmed, patriarch of the forest, guarded from hunters seeking his mighty tusks, by a presidential decree. A model of Ahmed now stands in the National Museum in Nairobi while his scions wander the forest under the watchful eyes of the Marsabit Reserve's rangers.
Lower down the mountain, below the forest line, groups of Borana people drive their camels to water at the singing wells. Three or four men form a human ladder down these deep shafts and with camel-hide buckets work in swift relay to bring water to the troughs above. The songs they sing while undertaking this work have earned the wells their name.
From Nairobi, the reserve is reached via Nanyuki and lsiolo a distance of 620 km. The road is paved up to lsiolo leaving a distance of 270 km of very bad road that is only motorable by 4 wheel-drive vehicles during the dry season. The reserve is 2 1/2 hrs by air from Nairobi and is adequately served by a tarmac airstrip located about one kilometer from Marsabit town centre.
Marsabit Town is a staging post for the journey to Moyale and onwards to Ethiopia and also the beginning of an adventure, which intrepid travelers make when they cross the inhospitable Chalbi Desert to reach Lake Turkana.
This shimmering and seemingly endless expanse of sand stretches for 300 kilometers to the shore of the lake of which it were once part. Even today, perhaps once in every decade, in one of the torrential downpours, which occur during a rare rainy season, it will again come into flood to form a vast but shallow lake.
There is no doubt that lake paradise and the surrounding enclosures of Marsabit national reserve will soon be asserted world wonders that every soul will desire to experience.
Marsabit town and its sanctuaries lie atop a mountain rising sheer from the desert floor to a height of about 1707 meters. The mountain is a natural phenomenon, born out of volcanic fire and shaped by mist where its great massive ranges and undulating peaks have created its own ambient climate.
Every evening, about midnight, the hot air rising from the desert floor cools and forms clinging fingers of mist, which grasp the mountain slopes, rarely releasing their grip until the late part of the morning. Mount Marsabit is famous for the dreamy waters of Lake Paradise which are located on its peak, for the foothills of rugged grandeur that fan out from its volcanic craters, and for the cloud forests which shelter both greater kudu and an ancient dynasty of elephants famous for their huge tusks.
Although the lower slopes of the mountain are scorched and dry, above them are richly forested wonderlands of crater lakes, swamps, towering cliffs and giant trees, all with an astounding display of wildlife and magnificent scenic views. Here bird and beast dart between the tall stands of juniper and podocarpus in a scene much as wildlife filmmakers Osa and Martin Johnson recorded when they made their home at Lake Paradise, one of the crater lakes, in the 1920's.
Many species of raptors inhabit the shaggy cliffs and the treetops around Lake Paradise and Sokorte Guda, a cliff lined bowl, which forms a natural amphitheatre in which Marsabit's elephants parade to drink in the late afternoon. Large herds of buffalo and other ungulates join this display. Other species found on the mountain include the shy greater kudu and other antelope as well as lions and leopards.
On the road south from Mount Marsabit to the rocky plains, the area is home to Sociable Weaver birds, which can be identified by their neater, tidier nests; Sparrow Weavers, with their "scruffier" nests; and white-bellied turacos. The area also unfolds indescribable natural phenomenon while passing through extraordinary Strangler figs in the mountain-top forest. This displays a stark contrast to the dusty track below which is lined by low, flat-topped acacias. Bird watching is a popular activity in this area.
For an estimated 63 years, Marsabit National Park and Reserve was the home of Ahmed, patriarch of the forest, guarded from hunters seeking his mighty tusks, by a presidential decree. A model of Ahmed now stands in the National Museum in Nairobi while his scions wander the forest under the watchful eyes of the Marsabit Reserve's rangers.
Lower down the mountain, below the forest line, groups of Borana people drive their camels to water at the singing wells. Three or four men form a human ladder down these deep shafts and with camel-hide buckets work in swift relay to bring water to the troughs above. The songs they sing while undertaking this work have earned the wells their name.
From Nairobi, the reserve is reached via Nanyuki and lsiolo a distance of 620 km. The road is paved up to lsiolo leaving a distance of 270 km of very bad road that is only motorable by 4 wheel-drive vehicles during the dry season. The reserve is 2 1/2 hrs by air from Nairobi and is adequately served by a tarmac airstrip located about one kilometer from Marsabit town centre.
Marsabit Town is a staging post for the journey to Moyale and onwards to Ethiopia and also the beginning of an adventure, which intrepid travelers make when they cross the inhospitable Chalbi Desert to reach Lake Turkana.
This shimmering and seemingly endless expanse of sand stretches for 300 kilometers to the shore of the lake of which it were once part. Even today, perhaps once in every decade, in one of the torrential downpours, which occur during a rare rainy season, it will again come into flood to form a vast but shallow lake.
There is no doubt that lake paradise and the surrounding enclosures of Marsabit national reserve will soon be asserted world wonders that every soul will desire to experience.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bird Watching
There are over nine thousand species in the world in every type of habitat. Over half of these species belong to the passerines or rather the perching bird which includes the Thrushes, Robins, Blackbirds, and Jays. The other species of birds includes the parasitic birds like the Cuckoo, which is notorious for flying between Europe and Africa as climatic conditions vary.
The main natural habitats for birds are water, open plains or the Savanna, woodlands and farmlands. The often large families of birds are the Falcons or Falconidae that includes Eagles, Hawks, Buzzards and Vultures. The most unusual Falcon is the Caracara which spends most of its life running on the ground. Among the Falcons there are other European members like the Kestrel, Hobby, Merlin, Gyr Falcon and the Peregrine Falcon.
The next amazing species are the Swallows which are small aerobatic birds that feed on insects. They are recognized easily by their fast flight and forked tails.
In Kenya there are many tourist destinations that allow for bird watching activites. Near their water habitats like the lake Turukana, Naivasha and Elementaita one is likely to find species such as the Pink Flamingoes, Hammercops, Iridescent Kingfishers, plovers, Herons, Storks, Geese, Cranes and of course the magnificent most elegant fish eagle.
At the Grassland savanna like the Tsavo National Park one can spot the ground Hornbill, the tall Secretary bird, Eagles, Vultures and ostrich. Among the smaller bid species on can spot the Ox- Peckers, Snowy white Egrets, Brilliant Sunbirds and Bustards.
Among the urban dwellers of bird species one may find the likes of wagtails and Weaverbirds perched on the many old trees in the city.
There are a number of different types of organized tours for bird watching like Ontdek Kenya tours. The destinations could be such as Tsavo National Park, Nliida Creek and Sabaki Estuary.
The best times for bird watching are during the months of October to April when more than 120 migrant birds have arrived from Europe so as to lay eggs in the summer season.
The benefits of bird watching are numerous; it helps on in relieving stress. A bird watcher acquires a huge storehouse of information concerning birds and how to care for them. Some even say that each bird species has a trait similar to that of different personality types.
For example the Crested Crane is a proud, Observant and calm bird that has the habit of watching of the smaller birds as is characteristic of Managers and C.E.O’s.
The ostrich is a big, heavily feathered bird except for the neck and head. It can run very fast but it is unable to fly. It is comparable to humans who despite their many inborn talents and strong physiques, they are unable to fly (succeed).
When in danger, the ostrich burry’s its head in the sand. (Am sure many of us have found ourselves in this situation from time to time when problems arise and we do not know how to deal with the problem.)
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The main natural habitats for birds are water, open plains or the Savanna, woodlands and farmlands. The often large families of birds are the Falcons or Falconidae that includes Eagles, Hawks, Buzzards and Vultures. The most unusual Falcon is the Caracara which spends most of its life running on the ground. Among the Falcons there are other European members like the Kestrel, Hobby, Merlin, Gyr Falcon and the Peregrine Falcon.
The next amazing species are the Swallows which are small aerobatic birds that feed on insects. They are recognized easily by their fast flight and forked tails.
In Kenya there are many tourist destinations that allow for bird watching activites. Near their water habitats like the lake Turukana, Naivasha and Elementaita one is likely to find species such as the Pink Flamingoes, Hammercops, Iridescent Kingfishers, plovers, Herons, Storks, Geese, Cranes and of course the magnificent most elegant fish eagle.
At the Grassland savanna like the Tsavo National Park one can spot the ground Hornbill, the tall Secretary bird, Eagles, Vultures and ostrich. Among the smaller bid species on can spot the Ox- Peckers, Snowy white Egrets, Brilliant Sunbirds and Bustards.
Among the urban dwellers of bird species one may find the likes of wagtails and Weaverbirds perched on the many old trees in the city.
There are a number of different types of organized tours for bird watching like Ontdek Kenya tours. The destinations could be such as Tsavo National Park, Nliida Creek and Sabaki Estuary.
The best times for bird watching are during the months of October to April when more than 120 migrant birds have arrived from Europe so as to lay eggs in the summer season.
The benefits of bird watching are numerous; it helps on in relieving stress. A bird watcher acquires a huge storehouse of information concerning birds and how to care for them. Some even say that each bird species has a trait similar to that of different personality types.
For example the Crested Crane is a proud, Observant and calm bird that has the habit of watching of the smaller birds as is characteristic of Managers and C.E.O’s.
The ostrich is a big, heavily feathered bird except for the neck and head. It can run very fast but it is unable to fly. It is comparable to humans who despite their many inborn talents and strong physiques, they are unable to fly (succeed).
When in danger, the ostrich burry’s its head in the sand. (Am sure many of us have found ourselves in this situation from time to time when problems arise and we do not know how to deal with the problem.)
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