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Thanks for this, @madaboutcheetah. I read more often that the wildlife is quite far from Saruni. Too bad. The northern wildlife is so beautiful. And I am glad that you saw cheetah again. Great pictures of the playing cubs.

Last bunch of photos from Lewa ..........  I wasn't going to leave kenya without a Lion, was I ?    Final morning was the ultimate - Sonja the black rhino (close up portraits)    Thank you for following this report - give me a shout if you have any questions.

Classic Lewa ........  That's what you call a "Crash" of rhino???  I suppose in the old days Rhino roamed free all over the wild spaces of Africa ....... 

Thanks to John who knows the area inside /out .......... More Lewa goodness including a Black rhino that came for a drink.

black rhino 

Here's the first set from Lewa .........  I'm convinced that a conservation project like Lewa is the only way to save this iconic species that is literally poached to near extinction .........       

iPhone scenics from samburu 

That's it for the Samburu segment.  We skipped the last morning drive ...... Mostly because all the game was concentrated by the river and it was quite a long ways off from the Saruni camp.     We had the transfer drive to Lewa after breakfast.  Quite a nice easy drive (mostly highway) once you leave the Kalama conservancy.........  Lewa Wilderness camp -NEXT!!! Stay tuned ........ we were dropped off at the entrance gate at Lewa. John our guide from Lewa wilderness was there to fetch us …. Slow drive through lewa to camp!! Would you believe it ?? A male cheetah sleeping under a tree next to the road …. Alas, we didn’t find him later that afternoon …. What a start !! 

More samburu magic ......... Are the elephants in samburu the most calm ones in all Africa????  Gerenuk feeding shots were on my bucket list ......    I'd heard a lot of the leopards of samburu ....... we did manage a shy male leopard and that's the best i could do.      

Continued ........