Snows of Kilimanjaro from Tsavo West
Above; Snow-capped Kilimanjaro from Tsavo West Kimana bandas April 2020. Courtesy Severin Safari Lodge Published: The East African Nation media By Rupi Mangat It was predicted that the snows of...
View ArticleFrom Masindi Exploring Kabalega’s Kingdom, Uganda
Above: Approaching Murchison falls in the National Park. Copyright: i Rupi Mangat 2017 Published: The East African Nation media Part 2 of 2 By Rupi Mangat At first glance Masindi gives the impression...
View ArticleIn Kabalega’s Kingdom: Bunyoro in Uganda
Above: Royal tomb of King Kabalega near Hoima in Uganda. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation media 25 April 2020 By Rupi Mangat Powerful and progressive, Kabalega defended his...
View ArticleNot one but TWO new species of Sawsharks discovered in Zanzibar and Madagascar
Discovering a species in the 21st century is exciting but to discover two new species is super-exciting. By Rupi Mangat Above: Artist’s impression of One of the newly discovered sixgilled sawshark...
View ArticleA Weekend Away on Lake Naivasha
By Rupi Mangat Above: Maasai giraffe at Ecoscapes Conservancy Lake Naivasha Published: Saturday Nation 4 April 2020 We’re in a land from the time of the dinosaurs. While there may or may not have been...
View ArticleVia Via Entebbe: Taste the World
Above: Published: The East African Nation media 21- 27 March 2020 I’m super excited to be staying at Via Via in Entebbe, booked by the staff at the New Court View Hotel in Masindi that’s the nearest...
View ArticleThe Delta Delights: Sailing downstream the Tana Delta
Published: Travel News magazine: Dec 2019-Jan 2020 It’s a moonless night. Above the Scorpion unfurls its tail across the delta’s width before the river crashes into the ocean. I’m enjoying a lone sail...
View ArticleInto Nyerere National Park – Tanzania’s Newest National Park in the vast...
Above: At Africa Safari Selous. Courtesy Africa Safari Selous Published: Satmag Nation newspaper 22 Feb 2020 The four days in Africa’s largest national park that has been re-named after the founding...
View ArticleSouth to Southern Tanzania: To reach Selous now Nyerere National Park
Above: Published: Saturday Nation magazine Day three of the road trip into Tanzania that’s about twice the size of Kenya, we’re nearly at the gates of Selous, a World Heritage Site and Africa’s...
View ArticleWest Side Lake Naivasha
Above: Ziwani House on Lake Naivasha . Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation media It’s a full ‘snow’ moon that’s travelled the sky and across the lake to sink into the horizon while...
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