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Monday 19 November 2012
Tuesday 30 October 2012
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.
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.
JBA - Kenya Safari
Saturday 6 October 2012
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.
Attractions
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
JBA- Kenya Safaris
Tuesday 25 September 2012
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 |
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 |
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.
JBA- Kenya Safari
Monday 17 September 2012
Serengeti National Park
Plains of Serengeti |
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 |
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.
JBA- Tanzania Safari
Tuesday 4 September 2012
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 |
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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