#maasaimara — Public Fediverse posts
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Best Places to Visit in Kenya in 2026: 15 Destinations Worth Exploring
Discover the 15 best places to visit in Kenya in 2026, from the Maasai Mara and Amboseli to Diani Beach, Samburu, Lake Naivasha and hidden gemshttps://wanderwithazazi.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/best-places-to-visit-in-kenya-in-2026/
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Maasai Mara, Kenya ,makes silence feel alert.
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Luxury isn't measured by what surrounds you. It's measured by how much space exists between you and the rest of the world.
Africa still has places where silence is the rarest amenity.
#MaasaiMara #LuxuryTravel #AfricanSafari #SafariLife #QuietLuxury #SlowTravel #WildAfrica #NaturePhotography #TravelPhotography #ConservationTravel #Kenya #LuxuryLifestyle #AdventureTravel #ExploreAfrica #DemicAfrica
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The Great Migration has arrived. 🦓🐃
The wait is over. The first herds have entered the SerengetiMigration, marking the beginning of one of the world's most spectacular wildlife events.
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There are front-row seats.
And then there are moments where nature forgets you're there.
The Great Migration isn't just something to witness—it's something to experience with time, space, and complete privacy. Sometimes the greatest luxury is simply being present while Africa performs its oldest spectacle.
#GreatMigration #MaasaiMara #LuxuryTravel #Safari #Africa #QuietLuxury #Conservation #Photography
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Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
#photography #photo #photographie #picoftheday #pictureoftheday #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #MaasaiMara #Kenya #lion #lions #cats #catsofmastodon #naturephotography
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20 Spectacular Giraffe Photos from Remembering Wildlife Competition https://petapixel.com/2026/04/23/20-spectacular-giraffe-photos-from-remembering-wildlife-competition/ #rememberingwildlife #wildlifephotography #maasaimara #Spotlight #girafffes #Features #africa #News
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Photographer Leaves Camera Trap in Remote Maasai Mara and Discovers Hidden Wildlife Highway
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Photographer Leaves Camera Trap in Remote Maasai Mara and Discovers Hidden Wildlife Highway https://petapixel.com/2026/04/21/photographer-leaves-camera-trap-in-remote-maasai-mara-and-discovers-hidden-wildlife-highway/ #willburrardlucas #remotecamera #cameratrap #maasaimara #Spotlight #Features #wildlife #africa #maasai
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Crossing Point
Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas set his camera trap to monitor a remote river crossing in a forested corner of the Maasai Mara in Kenya - placing cameras in areas closed to tourism, offering a chance to document a hidden side of the National Reserve. Several cameras were placed high above the crossing, allowing the animals to be framed within the environment resulting in an almost prehistoric feel.
#photography #wildlifephotography #willburrardlucas #wildlife #maasaimara #kenya #wildlifereserve #africanreserve #rhino #elephant #giraffe #rivercrossing
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Crossing Point
Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas set his camera trap to monitor a remote river crossing in a forested corner of the Maasai Mara in Kenya - placing cameras in areas closed to tourism, offering a chance to document a hidden side of the National Reserve. Several cameras were placed high above the crossing, allowing the animals to be framed within the environment resulting in an almost prehistoric feel.
#photography #wildlifephotography #willburrardlucas #wildlife ##maasaimara #kenya #wildlifereserve #africanreserve #rhino #elephant #giraffe #rivercrossing
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Crossing Point
Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas set his camera trap to monitor a remote river crossing in a forested corner of the Maasai Mara in Kenya - placing cameras in areas closed to tourism, offering a chance to document a hidden side of the National Reserve. Several cameras were placed high above the crossing, allowing the animals to be framed within the environment resulting in an almost prehistoric feel.
#photography #wildlifephotography #willburrardlucas #wildlife #maasaimara #kenya #wildlifereserve #africanreserve #rhino #elephant #giraffe #rivercrossing
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“Juvenile D'Arnaud's Barbets in sunset”
D'Arnaud's barbet is a small East African bird that feeds on insects, fruits, and seeds.
It grows to about eight inches, and is equally at home in trees or on the ground. A vertical tunnel two to three feet into the ground with a sideways and upward turn leads to the nest…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/juvenile-d-arnaud-s-barbets-in-sunset/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/105 s -
“Follow the path around”
Unlike in urban areas where we cut trees to build roads, here roads turn around trees, this is much better!
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/follow-the-path-around/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/1100 s -
“Who is the observer?”
The Masai giraffe is the largest subspecies of giraffe, making it the tallest land animal on earth.
It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania.
It has distinctive, irregular, jagged, star-like blotches which extend to the…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/who-is-the-observer/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/6000 s -
“Masai giraffes like tree leaves”
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchii), also spelled Maasai giraffe, also called Kilimanjaro giraffe, is the largest subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive,…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/masai-giraffes-like-tree-leaves/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 500, ƒ/9, 1/300 s -
“Common Ostrich”
The ostriches of the Kenyan savannah have never been so prized: first by jockeys, who ride them to the delight of spectators, and then by meat lovers, their flesh being reputed to be healthy.
These birds, which can reach up to 2.60 meters and weigh a hundred kilos, can kill with a single blow of their…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/common-ostrich/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/250 s -
“Spiderman is watching”
This red-headed rock agama (aka rainbow agama) wears the same colors as Spiderman, hence the name it is sometimes given in French.
This is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/spiderman-is-watching/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/13, 1/180 s -
“A nap in the shade”
Some people say lions sleep 22 out of every 24 hours. It's true we often see them lying in the grass, sometimes yawning. But it doesn't mean they sleep when we're not there. “Lions lying sleeping in the shade on a hot day are […] conserving energy during the least energetically efficient time of the…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/a-nap-in-the-shade/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/13, 1/105 s -
“Nothing to see… or maybe…”
As we drove slowly through the large empty spaces of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, I was fortunate enough to perceive a spot of slightly different color in a small group of bushes.
It was difficult to really see what it was, luckily a little bit of photography gear material can help!
Do you want…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/nothing-to-see-or-maybe/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/2900 s -
“Close to me”
Elephant mothers carry their babies for nearly two years before giving birth. Then they ensure their babies get the best food, teach their children the most useful skills and show their children how to lead the herd during hard times.
Elephants learn how to pick the best plants for eating, how to defend against…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/close-to-me/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/2200 s -
“A very curious Vervet monkey”
These primates are semi-terrestrial, which means that they can live on the ground as well as in the trees. During the night they climb a tree. They communicate with a range of sounds, gestures and postures. Individuals make different sounds depending on the situation. They use at least…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/a-very-curious-vervet-monkey/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 640, ƒ/11, 1/500 s -
“At the school of life”
The plains zebra is highly social and usually forms small family groups called harems, which consist of a single stallion, several mares and their recent offspring.
Early on, a mother zebra keeps any other zebra away from her foal, including the stallion, the other mares, and even her previous…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/at-the-school-of-life/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/9, 1/340 s -
“Small break with the protection of the shade of the tree”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/small-break-with-the-protection-of-the-shade-of-the-tree/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/450 s -
“The locomotion”
Most Kenyans travel with motorcycles, and sometimes one of these is shared by multiple families, at least in Maasai villages.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/the-locomotion/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/420 s -
“Making fire”
Real practice or only folkloric demonstration for the easily impressed tourists, the realization of a fire by rubbing two pieces of wood is mastered by the Massaï.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/making-fire/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 320, ƒ/6.4, 1/60 s -
“The village”
We have been fortunate enough to visit an actual Maasai village with the son of the village's chef, an incredible experience.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/the-village/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/950 s -
“Travel dreams…”
Possibly Africa’s most famous ethnic group, the Maasai people are semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and Northern Tanzania.
According to their own oral history the Masai people originated in the Nile Valley in Northern Africa and migrated south around the 15th century with their cattle.
Once…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/travel-dreams/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/750 s -
“A little nap”
The sweltering midday heat doesn't spare the animals.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/a-little-nap/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/340 s -
“Proud Maasai”
Standing proud in the savannah with their red blankets and painted shields, the Maasai people have become one of the more widely known symbols of East Africa; the Maasai shield is even featured on Kenya’s national flag. It’s not uncommon in Kenya and Tanzania to see the Maasai in their traditional dress, not only in…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/proud-maasai/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/450 s