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July 2012

Three brothers

July 21st, 2012|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , |

I love wild cats - the size and the species do not matter. I just love them all. There are some individuals, such as Ranthambhore's famous tigress called Machali, whom I will remember all my life. Another cat or rather group of cats that I will never forget are the fampous "three brothers" or "Honey's

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February 2012

January 2012

Some tips on planning your east African Safari

January 3rd, 2012|Categories: Bagh Safari, Featured|Tags: , , , , |

Costs: The costs for an East African safari can be broken up into three major components: Park fees. These include entry fees per head (between 60 to 80 US$ per head per day for non residents), Vehicle entry fee per day, Lodging concessions etc. These are all the fees that have to be paid to

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November 2011

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 5

November 16th, 2011|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , , , |

During the fifth week in Masai Mara our sightings of the three lion prides with small cubs were great as by now we could find them almost anytime we wanted to. A few of my close friend were part of this group and we had a party every night, which was long overdue. Four weeks

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Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 4

November 4th, 2011|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Cats were once again the highlight of our fourth week. There were fewer river crossings in this week but by now we had become adept at finding three prides of lions, all three with very young cubs, a pair of mating cheetahs (though we never really saw them mating) and a huge male leopard, whose

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October 2011

Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 3

October 22nd, 2011|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , , , |

At the end of the second week we bid goodbye to Kahini, Shivang and all their friends and crossed the Mara River to go towards Talek River. This week we had a group of close friends and family who were booked in Sunworld Safari’s amazing camp (Mara Bush Camp). This place is located in the

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Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 2

October 17th, 2011|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , , |

Week 2 The weekends in Masai Mara were “rest days” for us. One of our groups would leave on the Saturday and the next one would come to the camp either on Sunday evening or on Monday evening. They were great days as we had the camp all to ourselves. On Saturday mornings I would

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Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 1

October 11th, 2011|Categories: Bagh Safari|Tags: , , , , , , |

My wife, Poonam, and I were fortunate to spend five weeks in Masai Mara during the annual Wildebeest migration this year. We were there last year for two weeks and came back convinced that two weeks were not enough. It took us a year to plan a five-week trip. Since five weeks in Mara can

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