Capturing the Moment

 After a leisurely morning at Acacia Camp and a delicious breakfast of sausages and omlettes, we loaded back into our vehicle for a morning drive North to our next destination in the Aberdare Mountains. This route takes us through the capital city of Nairobi, and all of its infamous traffic. But with James at the helm we knew we were in good hands. That wasn't taking into account some of the other drivers as we got into my first accident ever in Kenya.   In almost stand still traffic one of the matatu public transport vans rammed into us from behind. Luckily our safari LandCruiser is built like a tank. The impact rubbed off some of the spare tire cover of ours, while doing quite a bit of damage to the little van. Since we had no real damage we quickly got underway again. We were trying to make it to the Aberdare Country Club by 2:30pm in time for lunch. Waterhog babies!    The landscape really started shifting from dry arid shrublands to fertile farmlands ...

The Ark Elephant chasing off a hyena at the waterhole   Many people who come safari in Kenya miss out on seeing the lush, high elevation, rainy national park of the Aberdare Mountains. Rare animals like the bongo and the giant forest hog live here and the constant mist and rain showers make for some pretty incredible waterfalls. The forest is very dense which makes the game viewing quite difficult, but you can get lucky with animals busting out of the bush to graze on the narrow strip of grass on the side of the road. a rare Giant Forest Hog    If you come to Aberdare it is a must to drive through the bamboo forest for a chance to see one of the rarest animals, the bongo, in its native habitat. If you keep driving higher you will emerge from the tree line around 10,000ft into rolling shrub covered hills known as the moors. Here dew covered heather give way to babbling brooks which dramatically drop into beautiful waterfalls. Jack and Rebecca at the w...