Journeys Through Africa

On High Water in Nakuru

Above: Grey crowned cranes in Lake Nakuru National Park. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation media 19 to 25 October 2019 The salt ribbon around the lake has disappeared, swallowed by the rising water. It’s a phenomenon that researchers studying the lake since the first recorded data, attribute to a 50 year cycle that […]

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Journeys Through Africa

Bogoria’s Flaming Flamingos

It’s a magical wonderland. Crimson ribbons fly across a lustrous lake for its entire length. It’s the pink flamingos – more precisely the Lesser flamingos – of Bogoria, the caustic cauldron just north of the Equator in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. In between the shorter more glamorous birds we see few of the less glamorous […]

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