African driver ant

Most of us know them as siafu and try to avoid them at all costs but here are a few interesting facts about  African driver ant. A typical column  of siafu can contain about a million individuals ants a column the size would consume about fifty thousand prey items a day. Their prey item are insects, arachnids’, and warms, particularly grasshoppers, scorpions and large hairy spiders, but they will often attack larger prey if they have the chance, typically snakes or other reptiles trapped in their holes or nestlings unable to fly. Any injured creature is also at risk if it cannot move out of the ants’ way. A local village tell of cooped chickens or cows in bomas being stripped to the bone in a matter of days.

Unlike the other ten thousand or so ant species, African driver ants do not build complex underground nests. This is because they clear an area of prey quite quickly and need to move from one place to another. Instead they dig a large chamber underground, and then link their bodies together into a massive basket known as a bivouac. Inside this mass of siafu bodies, live the queen and her brood. The brood could be up to a million white maggots with a huge appetite for meat. Almost every siafu is a sterile daughter of the queen and these daughters care for the brood, defend the nest and kill the prey.

These sterile females are all blind. The male are fat and clumsy. The males are produced once a year from special clutch of eggs laid be the queen. These eggs develop into giant winged males that leave the colony on a nuptial flight.Unlike females, the males have very good eyesight, which they need  to find a new colony once he has found the colony he must impress the guards with his size, if he fails, they will cut him to pieces and feed the colonies and feed the colonies young with him; if he succeeds, then he will be allowed to mate with the queen, after which he is discarded.

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Kenya Safari packages

The traditional African safari was born in Kenya and now you can experience the celebrity on a Kenya safaris of a lifetime. The magnificence and diversity of the wildlife and landscape is unsurpassed. Imagine taking your family on an adventure safari holiday of a lifetime. Enjoying exciting encounters with elephant, leopard and rhinoceros in their natural habitat with your own local professional guide. Kenya is where the adventure safari was born and still remains the best safari holiday in the world. Be it in budget or luxury camping, standard or luxury safari lodge, exclusive mobile camping, modern villas, condos, beach resort all can be found at ease and  the  variety caters for each one special interest, whether in a family holiday ,student or for a single traveler. Doing everything at your pace, having everything organized around what interests your family. We offer a wide variety of attractions, where you can fly in a hot air balloon or even go walking through superb scenery and camp out under the stars as your masai guides sing around the camp fire. Refine your adventure holiday with a few days fun on the exotic Kenya coast. You might be lucky enough to witness the amazing annual wildebeest Great Migration on a Masai Mara safari in Kenya.

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Kenya Safari

Kenya is where the adventure safari was born and still remains the best safari holiday in the world. Be it in budget or luxury camping, standard or luxury safari lodge, exclusive mobile camping, modern villas, condos, beach resort all can be found at ease and  the  variety caters for each one special interest, whether in a family holiday ,student or for a single traveler.

 Adventure Camping

Adventure camping in Kenya offers you the utmost safaris experience since you have all time in control, camping safari gear in your adventure camping vehicles with our professional company chef cares for your diet where you even have a chance to taste the local cuisines.

Birdwatching

We offers the best birding in Kenya , bird watching Tanzania , birding in Rwanda and Uganda . All this regions  has an amazing wealth of birdlife due to lack of extreme variation in climate. More than 1,000 species of birds have been recorded in the vast variety of habitats in East Africa.

Mission Safaris

We offer exciting  programs that are tailor made for missionaries, religious groups, individuals, and Christians based organizations, who want to visit various places within Kenya, Tanzania , Uganda .Similarly we organize trips to serve in community based projects in partnership with organizations, whose main business is community service.

Masai Mara

The Masai Mara ‘the seventh wonder of the world’, lies in the Great Rift Valley, with an area of over 1,500 square km, the Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the most popular tourism destinations in Kenya and is the home to the biggest wildlife spectacle in the world, annual wildebeest migration which involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in October.

Nairobi Excursions

All our Kenya excursions, safaris and getaways sold to our customers are recommended from personal experience. We have the expertise of specialists when it comes to traveling to Kenya and East Africa enabling us to give the best advice and the best deal by consolidating our buying power.Over the years, we have tailored a new range of targeted packages to make it even easier for our customers to select the right holiday. This is combined with our honest and reliable approach and the best prices around.

Mt.Kenya Climbing

Mount Kenya a UNESCO World Heritage Site which stands at 5,199m is located to the east of the Great Rift Valley, about 175km North-East of Nairobi. It is the second highest peak in Africa. Its described as one of the most impressive landscapes in Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moorlands and diverse forests that illustrate outstanding ecological processes.

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The big five of samburu

Kenya as a destination is rich in diversity not only within selected geographical regions but in every corner of the country lay hidden treasures that are attraction for our visitor. In samburu you will discover the big five famous to the region-not the big five you already know; Elephant, Rhino, buffalo, and lion. Samburu has special big five; the gerenuk, the gravy zebra, the reticulated giraffe, the masai ostrich and the beisa Oryx.

Besia Oryx,Samburu Kenya

The scenery here is breathtaking and unlike many arid areas, the place is quite hilly. The terrain is rocky and this only served to make the heat more intense driving animals into hiding. Water spring find around the make this good place for the animals all year round. Ewaso Nyiro River known for its wonderful crocodiles is one of the sources of water throughout the park.

Located through the center of Kenya on a look at the map of Kenya, isiolo has often been referred to as in the northern part of the country whereas is the part of the eastern province. Unlike its neighboring evergreen Meru district, Isiolo marks the start of Kenya’s northeastern area with desert scrub, harsh hot weather conditions and lake Turkana in its midst. Beautiful it sound and is to the eyes of a visitor.

Residents of the town agree that it is a small cosmopolitan town, having outgrown it outpost days and boosts of scenic beauty including wonderful mix of race and cultures.

Reticulated Giraffe,Samburu Kenya

The area is home to some of the Kenya’s communities that have kept their culture and tradition practices to date among them the samburu, rendille, borana and the turkana people. However there is sizable number of resident of Somali origin in the area. This has been attributed to ex-Somali soldier workers settling in isiolo after world war 1.Isiolo is also home to some of the well.

Kept gems in tourism and hospitality but rarely talked about .the region is famous for its large population of elephants, gerenuk, the reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, grevy zebra, beisa Oryx, lesser kudu and grater kudu.

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Serengeti National Park

Plains of Serengeti

The Serengeti National Park has been the home and the subject of many books, television wild life movies documentaries, pictures, photo, on African wildlife animals, than any other African national park. Hosting the annual wildebeest migration across its grassy plains -  the world's greatest wildlife animals spectacle - this park is without a doubt a defining image of East Africa .The Serengeti Park in Tanzania covers an area of 14 763 sq km, but the greater Serengeti and roughly 30 000 sq km in extension of other various parks, which  notably the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Kenya's Masai Mara National Game Reserve. The park is picturesque grassland of awesome beauty and size. Derived from the Masai phrase "Siringet" meaning "endless plain", the Serengeti Plains ecosystem is defined by an ancient migration route, followed annually by around two million animals.

The national park can be divided into 3 major wildlife animals’ vegetation areas: In the south-eastern area are the open grasslands, to the north the open woodlands and in the west a mosaic of grass- and woodlands. The lion is one of this great African park's main attractions, as there are about 2500 of these animals in the Serengeti Plains ecosystem. This is the biggest concentration in the world of Africa's largest predators.

Masai Giraffe,Serengeti

Attractions includes;
Kopjes: Kopjes a series of weathered granite outcrops are spread everywhere in the park, one that contains African rock paintings, while another features a mysterious "rock gong". Most of these fascinating granite kopjes are miniature wildlife ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools, left in the rock after the rains. The Moru Kopjes are the most frequently visited kopjes by tourists, in the park.

Lake Ndutu: The short grass plains also feature an abundance of gazelle, before the annual migration. A small seasonal lake, Lake Ndutu (or Lagarja) surrounded by beautiful acacia trees, is without a doubt, the main attraction of the area. The lake supports a number of giraffes, vast flora and fauna, rich bird life with lesser flamingoes being the major eye catching of the area.

 Moru Kopjes: The Moru Kopjes (meaning "old" in Masai) display some interesting geological formations made up of ancient granite, which were left standing after centuries of erosion and weathering. The all year round wildlife game viewing is triggered by the correction of the rain water which offers a chance for much variety of wild animals especially in the dry season. The moru provides a vantage point for the predators as they await the prey to come and drink water.

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People of Kenya

The 42 tribes of the people of Kenya enjoy diversity ,unity and harmony .They comprise the Cushitic, the bantu, the nilotes, as well as the non –Africans(Asians, Europeans and Arabs)Although the local language strongly exist, Kiswahili is the national language while English is the official language. Interaction with the friendly people in their habitats leaves a most memorable impression.

Masai People,Kenya

At the cost, one will be proudly pleased to visit the Mijikenda hut that looks exactly like half a coconut fruit with a small door. Mijikenda literally means 9 homes or villages, (Miji is homes; Kenda is 9) and the huts may have been designed to cover the nine tribes that constitutes the mijikenda tribes o=f Giriama, Digo, Chonyi, Duruma, Jibana, Kambe, Kauma, Rabai, and Ribe. It is said that mijikenda are the best cooks in the world. Their music ranges from the soothing Taarab to the more vibrant chakachaka. The word Swahili is derived from the Arabic word sawahil, an Arabic word that means coast.

Further inland, and mainly in central Kenya, there is dominance of the Bantu tribes comprising mainly of the kikuyu, Meru, Kamba, and Embu. One begins to experience the diversity in culture, seen in the mode of house construction, dress and food. Traditional house took the shape of the grass thatched roof with smoothened mud walls and earth floor. The arrangements of house within the home stead were defined by strict traditional and cultural rules.

The rift valley and its environs are mainly inhabited by the masai and the Kalejin communities. These tribes are traditionally pastoralists who depend on their animals for food. On interaction with these communities, one immediately notices the strict adherence to traditional culture by way of dress and behavior.

Western Kenya is the home to mainly the Luhya and the luo. There is dramatic change in culture and way of life, method of dress, food, music and dance.

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