The Samburu tribe
Back at the lodge some Samburus (the tribe that lives around Samburu, in many was similar to the Masais) performed dances, and I got the opportunity to get some close shots of these colourful and beautiful people.
On the last drive in Samburu, the drivers were looking for lions. The landscape in Samburu is dramatic and wild, not the like the gentle savannah landscape. It was dominated by elephants. On one occasion we found ourselves in the middle of an elephant herd. A mother was almost separated from her infant calf by our van – a potentially dangerous situation. But the driver slowly backed off, solving the problem.
The animals seems to regard the safari vehicles as dead object, they hardly react to them. But if you step out it is another matter. Some weeks before our trip the news reported about a Swedish woman who almost got killed by a lion in Tanzania when she stepped outside the van when it had broken down.
We didn’t find any lions. But in the strange landscape, were you almost expected some dinosaurs to appear, we fittingly enough saw a big reptile – a large crocodile with his jaws open – frozen in motion as if he was lifeless.
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