Campi ya Kanzi News

Campi ya Kanzi News
January 2011

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Happy new year...
Too late for happy Christmas, just in time for happy new year...

Jacopo, Antonella, Lucrezia, Luca, Lorenzo

With African time we wish you a happy new year.
This Christmas was spent once again in the Chyulu (last year we went in Italy, first time since we moved to Kenya).
It was nice spending Christmas at home.
We had lovely guests and we enjoyed our traditional picnic on Christams day in the Chyulu.

We have been blessed by a very good rainy season: all is flowering and green.

Great moment to enjoy the Chyulu Hills.

Chyulu Hills: lush and green after the rains

Christmas picnic in the cloud forest

The year of the cat(s)?

Happy sisters

2010 was quite a year for our cats. Wildlife Pays (the compensation program financed by Campi ya Kanzi conservation fee) has been challenged as never before and proved the key to our success in preserving not just lions, but all predators.

The reward has been amazing spottings of cats (once a group of 20 lions just outside camp!).

Enjoy this collection of our favorite photos.

The camera trap at the camp waterhole has captured good shoots (aardwolf, porcupine, leopard, mongoose, jackals, cheetah, lion, eagles...) we will soon load the best shots on maasai.com

Nosero boy

Stefano with Nosero daughter

Just seen the other night...

and just seen the other day...

This Christmas season we have also been specially lucky with leopards.

It is unusual to see this rather elusive cat. Many guests have been blessed with a good number of sights and the other day two different leopards were seen in the same game drive: very lucky!

A beauty...

Elephant party
Come and enjoying a walk with the eles

Remember we told you about the elephant orphanage by David Sheldrick Trust, in Ithumba, Tsavo East?

We took Lucrezia there last May. We went back the other day to check on Chaimu, the baby elephant we rescued in June 2009. She is doing very well and seemed to recognize Parashi, who helped rescuing her.

Among elephants...

A walk with elephant

Quite difficult to express in words the amazing feelings of walking among elephants, of being sniffed, touched, gently pushed by adult elephants roaming free.

Come and stay a week with us at Campi ya Kanzi: we will spend a night at the charming camp in Ithumba and make you live an experience you will never forget.

You will be supporting a great conservation cause and you will have the most incredible safari of your life.