Tag: masai mara
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The day behind the frame
Life is made out of a collection of moments that for some unapparent reason our brains choose to retain as a very vivid highlight. One morning I was scheduled to travel by myself, with a company camera to try and film the activity at the hyena den. I had received a crash course about how…
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The most bizarre conversation
In Kenya there is a clever system used to make payments that makes life out in the bush a lot easier. This system, known as MPESA, allows you to make quick cash transactions using your cellphone. Considering banks are hard to find but everyone’s got access to an SMS, it’s an ideal system to be…
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Fashio (not) ista
One of the perks of living and working in the bush for me have always been uniforms. Strange thing to say I know, but for a girl that is incompletely uninterested and un-savvy about clothes, fashion and makeup, uniforms have been –ironically- entirely liberating for me. When I was 19 I went through my own…
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From Nairobi to the Masaai Mara
One of the biggest fights I ever had on a roadtrip was with my brother, potentially due to both of us being hungry; he wouldn’t stop for the elephants. All our lives we had been training for the “roadtrip efficiency marathon” that Maximo would put us throught to get to Los Llanos. The premises were…