Difficult times. For everyone. However, this has not stopped hundreds of you communicating your best wishes, concern and indeed love for your favourite camps in Africa.
‘There is nowhere I would rather be right now for self-isolation’ …
Mary Allen, British Colombia
Thanks for your support and best wishes to you all and all the other stuff you know already.
Lastly, look out for next week’s special new exciting competition, open to anyone who has ever stayed with us in the last 20 years. Also, our new Conservancy donation initiative will be rolled out in the next few days.
This matters to Kicheche and we thought it time to show how some of our staff have been occupying themselves in lockdown. There is a theme and it is that of the land. Most would prefer to be driving or walking on the Conservancies’ fertile soil, but they realise there is a time for it to be tilled and harvested and what is more, they do it very well.
The rains were huge in November to February and they have returned, as the Mara Camp Bridge photos show, meaning there will be ripe pickings for the millions of zebra and wildebeest who will soon journey North into their dry season stronghold.
You know the drill: the stampede of hooves, the chaotic blunderings across the rivers and streams, and the fanning out across the Conservancies. The tawny and spotted predators relentlessly pursue these charcoal and striped lines, with not one of these creatures having any observance for social distancing and apart from a few ostracised hippos or bull elephants, not much care for isolation either.
Our enterprising land girls and boys may have to be patient for a little while longer, but they yearn, as you do, to be back where you all belong.
“After the virus brought the globe to almost a standstill we need to hibernate and change our lifestyle.
I am lucky to find myself a new job. May I beg your pardon if you miss me for a while.”
Patrick Koriata
Thanks for your support and best wishes to you all and all the other stuff you know already.
Lastly, look out for next week’s special new exciting competition, open to anyone who has ever stayed with us in the last 20 years. Also, our new Conservancy donation initiative will be rolled out in the next few days.
BBC Travel presenter Simon Reeve – from last week’s newspapers.
‘I know, from first-hand experience at the incredible Kicheche camps in Kenya, that to visit them is like stepping into the Garden of Eden: elephants, hyenas, leopards, baboons, topis and elands.
The camps are an important employer, too, with scores of staff providing for family members as well as funding schools and healthcare.’
