Our room — a tent, actually — is located on Hippo Corner. Or at least that is what operators call it, here at the Fairmont Mara Safari Club in the Masai Mara. On the balcony of this particular tent, a person can look down the 50 feet or so to the Mara River, and see […]

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Yes. We are in Kenya’s capital. Site of the terror attacks at the city’s biggest mall last week. I prefer to think it isn’t as brazen as it may seem, from the western side of the Atlantic. Isn’t it generally safest right after a major attack? And wouldn’t it take a few weeks for a […]

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