At breakfast, John came over and told
us that Towet, the Masai Askari, would like to take us on a longer
bush walk than the one we did a couple of years ago, so we jumped at
the chance. We headed up into the Ngulia Hills behind the Bandas. We
stopped briefly on the rocks we had photographed the bandas from in
2011and carried on up. Along the way we found evidence of Lion, Hyena
and Leopard, plus the skull and some of the vertebrae of a Buffalo
that had been killed by a Lion.
Amazingly, we could see Elephants
climbing the hills further along and they were higher than us! At
times it was a steep scramble over the rocks but each time we came
across Elephant spoor, as proof they had climbed this far, we were
amazed at the climbing abilities of these agile giants. John said
that sometimes during the rainy season, some of the Elephants prefer
to climb to and stay at the very top of the Ngulia Hills, rather than
risk getting bogged in the mud in the valley below.
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| Elephants climbing in the Ngulia Hills |
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| Dragonfly in a cave spring high in the Ngulia Hills that supplies water to the Bandas |
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| Towet, Howard and John at the cave |
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| John, Karen and Towet high above the Rhino Valley |
We got back just in time for a shower
before lunch and spent half the afternoon photographing some amazing
birds around our balcony before taking another drive along to
Kuldip's Ponds.
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| We'll need to look this gorgeous fellow up in the bird book when we get home |
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| Another to look up at home |
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| One more for the bird book |
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| Another to look up |
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| Lilac-Breasted Roller |
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| Great Egret |
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