27/08/2026
The lion are always active here and our guests see them most regularly of all the cats. They choose the deep valleys and luggahs to raise their young and then come out onto the more open tops of plains to teach them how to hunt. Yesterday the sky was clear blue and the moon full and far-away looking. The grass has yellowed now after several months of no rain and it rustles and crackles when the wind blows before dusk. I will never tire of watching these creatures as they lounge on termite mounds, slow blinking and yawning at last light. When they start to move there is a gradual momentum build as you watch and see them begin to think about the hunt. Our nights are filled with roars this week as the pride moves around the conservancy seeing the plentiful prey around them. Each morning we wonder what we will find and see, there is always something to wonder at, no day the same, no season a formula. This wild life that people come to visit is like nothing else in the world…there is no amount of AI that could generate the feeling and smell of dry grass, dust wind and gloaming light. These safaris - providing we resist the Western urge to bring all the accoutrements of comfort and allow the wild to pervade the Safari will always remain if these spaces remain… El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild
