✦ Wildlife
By Joseph Sankale · 5 min read
Everyone arrives wanting the Big Five, and rightly so. But ask any guide their favourite sighting and you'll hear about African wild dogs on a hunt, a shoebill stalking a swamp, or the impossibly elegant gerenuk standing on its hind legs.
The northern frontier of Kenya holds the 'Samburu Special Five'; Uganda's wetlands hide the prehistoric shoebill; Tanzania's wild south is wild-dog country. These are the sightings that turn a first safari into a lifelong habit.
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