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Elephants made in China...

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avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (8:55) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

If you go into the reserves of Amboseli in Kenya there goes mainly to admire the elephants that live in large herds. So two years ago, after almost twenty years I have wanted to go back.
Amboseli is flat and dusty small reserve at the foot of Kilimanjaro, enclosed between Tsavo West and Chyulu Mountain, one of the most beautiful areas in my opinion, still wild in Kenya. As famous Amboseli is not very popular, as opposed to Nakuru, with the expanding city now close to the park, and the Masai Mara, a beautiful animal and photo opportunities, but unfortunately more and more similar to Gardaland (and it gets worse every year), in this area you can still experience a true safari experience wild Africa.
I remember starting from Mombasa then you had to take the only road that was the superstrada Nairobi. Started from the most important port in East Africa (Mombasa course) and dates back as far as Lake Victoria to come to Kampala the capital of Uganda.
A paved road so to speak; the track was of very poor quality, after the first rains ruined by forming holes wide and deep as craters, if you were not careful you risked to lose the middle and even life, could not be counted trucks with license plates from various African countries overturned on the edge of the roadway.
After about five hours we left the highway to take a dirt track very dusty and full of potholes and depressions after another four hours to get to Amboseli.
It was as uncomfortable as it is beautiful that track, it wound among the dusty desert lands and among the craters of volcanoes and the lush green forests at their feet, here and there some poor settlements of the Masai, andovevi pay attention to the animals that occasionally crossed. A true African adventure knew the hour of departure but it was absolutely unpredictable than arrival date.
But two years ago, much to my surprise I found everything changed desolate, wild and dusty track that had given me so many emotions there piùwow!. replaced by a new road, brand new asphalt, lines delimiting the roadway of a yellow shiny, flawless and signs here and there small areas of the park. I said to myself "thinks that effect and that photos can admire it from above, the unfolding of that snake yellow and black with the contrast of volcanoes and green forests" but nothing more. That sense of adventure, the true safari, the jeep that you bogged down with the others that helped to overcome the breakdown, the arrival at the lodge that you do not reggevi feet from fatigue with the powder that we put yourself on two gdays of supply backed up to remove it from the body and clothes, not to mention the miles to get hopelessly lost in the dark ..... everything.
In less than two hours we were at the lodge on this road was built and donated by the Chinese government and want to know what kenyiota desired by whom? But the new "barbarians", self-styled safaristi who do not like the smell of Africa, dust and discomfort, and claim to the lodge to find stracchino! There is little to laugh, it's happened to me several years ago when I accompanied a small group on a safari in Tsavo.
Today, with a melancholy smile but pleased to have attended those places when they were still virgins ....... I wonder when the "elephants made in China"?

avatarsupporter
sent on June 03, 2014 (9:44) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Beautiful photo, and unfortunately, very true to what you "told" in your comment!
Congratulations and greetings,
Paul

avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (10:50) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hello Paul, congratulations both for the photos, which for the interesting story. How have things changed over the years and how they will change again ....... unfortunately in those places the color of money trumps everything.
Hello Marco

avatarsupporter
sent on June 03, 2014 (12:06) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Very beautiful image, the story just as nice but very very sad ....

avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (13:02) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Not only money, but also a lot of friends incivility ignorance and lack of respect for the beauty of the planet. Too many people, but I've already written, do the safari without knowing it 'especially where it goes and why it does it.
It's sad but it is reality and it is for this reason that I go there as often as I can. As I wrote in my profile, I want to photograph a world that is no longer as I saw it yesterday and there will be more as I see him tomorrow. ;-)
Thank you all.

avatarsupporter
sent on June 03, 2014 (14:55) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Beautiful image, the presence of the egrets and the scenery makes it really nice.

I can only quote what you thought. These feelings even when I try the photographer jay a marina a few miles from home, with yards at 100 m distance that surrounded him .... I always wonder if I'll see her next year :-(

avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (17:45) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Beautiful picture and even more 'beautiful and touching story, which unfortunately embodies the reality' that many, too many places and countries are undergoing to this day ...... We must live them the most 'can as they are today and hope for the future !!

avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (20:45) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Very Paul. Although Africa is no longer what it once was. I realize that I attend only since 2007, I guess you.

avatarsenior
sent on June 03, 2014 (23:29) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Pmaffio hello, every time I go to Africa I also see changes but I believe that we are not yet at all.
the real change will be when the Chinese will want to go there as tourists.
as we are now in anni80, islands, villages, cities and shopping.
soon will change and invade Africa as tourists.
I always say to my wife "let's enjoy today, when they arrive en masse everything will change again"

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sent on June 05, 2014 (9:27) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Really nice

avatarjunior
sent on June 05, 2014 (10:33) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

That track between Nairobi and Mombasa I have traveled in 1978. And as Paul remains for me the nostalgia of that Africa, the powdery slopes in the dry season and full of red mud in the wet season, so as to get bogged down even with 4x4. Dell'Amboseli And I just remember the fact that safari in the opposite direction to yours, from Nairobi to sea through the inner races of Amboseli and Tsavo West. I was on honeymoon in three: my wife, myself and a Fujica ST701 with many rollers gives the following ...

avatarsenior
sent on June 05, 2014 (13:30) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I can only share the memories even veiled by a bit 'of melancholy. Thank you all.


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