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Part of the joy of being in the bush is the lack of people.
It’s just you and the natural order of the world unfolding without human interference.
One might say it’s the serenity, to quote from the Australian classic, The Castle.
There are plenty of videos of traffic jams in the Kruger National Park. No matter the time of year, you’re going to spot plenty of other cars on the road.
However, I have never seen anything that even closely resembles this video from Kenya.
We don’t know where exactly it was filmed but comments point towards the Masai Mara National Reserve. Strap in, because this is outrageous:
#Kenya your once in a lifetime safari … witness a cheetah kill and the 2nd wonder of the world … the mass Toyota 4×4 migration pic.twitter.com/0gsJtE1qZ1
— Evelyn Tremble (@DrumChronicles) October 28, 2022
Wow. Just wow.
I get that guides want their guests to be as close to the action as possible and rely on tips to pay the bills, but this is disgusting.
All future safari visitors to Africa- this is not ok. You have the power, as the tourist, to stop this poor and disgusting behaviour. Do not endorse this behaviour-these guides do not deserve a tip,rather a ban. https://t.co/gHTLGZN1fY
— Matt Blair | The Rusty Mokoro (@therustymokoro) October 31, 2022
Perhaps the most worrying part is how unfazed these cheetahs appear, presumably because they’ve grown used to vehicles handbrake-turning mere metres from them to score the best view.
Is this what safari holidays have now been reduced to? Sies, man.
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