This trip report will provide the overall details about our South Africa and Kenya trip and cover some of the highlights of each day. After you have had a chance to review the overall trip details, please visit the enclosed photo galleries for each of the five locations we visited:


- Cape Town, South Africa
- Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Samburu National Reserve, Kenya
- Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
- Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya


Each of the above listed five photo galleries are broken up into daily galleries so that you get a full impression of the activity and wildlife we observed and photographed each day. Visiting two countries, five different wildlife parks or reserves, with both morning and afternoon game drives provided a wide variety of wildlife encounters making each day adventurous, different and exciting.


Photography equipment used on this trip: (2) Nikon D3S Camera bodies, AF-S NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G ED VR lens, AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens, Nikon TC-14E II 1.4x Teleconverter, multiple Lexar Professional 16Gb and 8GB Compact Flash Cards, (2) Kinesis Photo Gear Bean Bags, Jobu Design Jr Gimbal Head and Manfrotto Super Clamp


Our trip began on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 with South African Airways Flight# 208 departing about an hour late (due to a snowstorm), from Washington Dulles at 6:50PM to Johannesburg, South Africa. We had a one hour refueling stop in Dakar, Senegal.


A map of Africa, courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency, shows the nations of Senegal, South Africa and Kenya.


Highlighed in red are Dakar, Senegal; Johannesburg, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa and Nairobi, Kenya.