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<\/a><\/p>\nMount Kenya viewed from the terrace – digitally enhanced, but only to remove the haze (honest!)<\/p>\n
Flowers on a huge cactus<\/p>\n An ibis at the KWS offices where we bought our tickets for the park.<\/p>\n A young buffalo<\/p>\n Baboon<\/p>\n Nice yellow flowers<\/p>\n Big buffalo tries to hide<\/p>\n Salty rock – you can just see the marks where the animal scrape it with their teeth.<\/p>\n Monkey!<\/p>\n Heading up – the park is in three levels (tropical forest, bamboo, and moorland)<\/p>\n Out on the moorland<\/p>\n Despite the gloomy weather the vies were good<\/p>\n More flowers<\/p>\n Chania Falls<\/p>\n Something like a teasel<\/p>\n “Fur” \u00a0hangs on the trees<\/p>\n The Chania river<\/p>\n A sole hill on the moorlands<\/p>\n The next fall –<\/p>\n Queen’s Cave below the falls<\/p>\n A female reed buck<\/p>\n Amos, our driver, named her “Imelda”<\/p>\n View from lunch<\/p>\n More antelope<\/p>\n Moor views<\/p>\n Bush buck<\/p>\n Monkey<\/p>\n LEOPARD! (I know, it focused on the tree, but I don;t care!)<\/p>\n Buffalo on a hill<\/p>\n Water buck (female)<\/p>\n And male<\/p>\n The whole herd<\/p>\n A sole elephant – like in Araboku Sokoke, we saw lots of evidence but few animals!<\/p>\n A big wart hog<\/p>\n Back at Treetops, a sole male elephant was eating the mineral-rich soil<\/p>\n A pair of hyenas (we saw several more in the night, chewing on a carcass, but the light was too low)<\/p>\n Looking over the water hole at night<\/p>\n And so to bed in the Queen’s bed! A night of luxury \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aganpanthus in the Outspan garden at breakfast. Mount Kenya viewed from the terrace – digitally enhanced, but only to remove the haze (honest!) Flowers on a huge cactus An ibis at the KWS offices where we bought our tickets for the park. A young buffalo Baboon Nice yellow flowers Big buffalo tries to hide Salty… Continue Reading Aberdares National Park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43dbc-ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n