James Trip

Hi, this is James, last week I went on a trip with my school to Tsavo West which is a huge national park in south eastern kenya. The park is mostly dense shrub and also has mountains which is what we aimed to climb. We were about two hours drive inside the park and camped at the base of Ngulia mountain right next to a crocodile and hippo infested river. Where we were camping was in amongst the palm trees that are home to tonnes of elephant, hyena, leopard and lion as well as buffalo and hippo. During the night as we were sleeping in our tents, we heard lion, hyena and the guards told us the next morning that there had been hippos and elephants wandering around our tent during the night. Amazingly, elephants are so delicate that they can step over tent cords and dodge us sleeping which I'm glad to hear.
Returning from climbing we were all exhausted and us boys decided we would have a brief dip in the river. We were a little nervous at first but we had people looking out for hippos and crocodile and it was very refreshing.
 While climbing the mountain , although we didn't reach the summit, I was amazed to see elephant tracks and poo all the way up in incredibly precarious spots. On our way out of the park on the last day, we were very lucky to see twenty or so elephant on the side of the track, we saw hyena and we were incredibly lucky to see a male leopard resting under a tree. This is not very common at all especially in that game park as the cover is so thick.