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Watching animals and people at The Ark Lodge

Watching animals and people at The Ark Lodge

Set in a mountain forest, The Ark is a very special place where you can watch animals.

Wildlife gathers at the saltlick and waterhole at The Ark, a lodge in Kenya’s Aberdare Range, offering visitors close-up views of animals in their natural habitat.

Apart from his family, the Bible tells us that Noah took only animals on his Ark when the floods came. Perhaps like the American poet, Walt Whitman, he thought he could turn and live with animals.

‘They are so placid and self-contained,’ Whitman wrote. ’I stand and look at them long and long.’ I know what he means. And he couldn’t have found a better place for looking at animals long and long than the Ark in our Aberdare Range of mountains.

In the hunt for insects, it becomes clear why Nairobi's hidden wetland in Kikuyu, is an important site.

Ulf Aschan was one of the first white hunters to change from shooting big game with a gun to shooting them with a camera.

No city in the world has such a game park so close and so easily accessible, there is something different to see every time.

There is nothing about the Falconry of Kenya, the place is cramped and dirty, and the snakes and birds are housed in deplorable conditions.

Built in 1890, the building was first an office for the Imperial British East Africa Company.

Governor Sakaja demands answers from Kamukunji police over suspects' release on bail as families await news of missing relatives.

The latest blackout has revived concerns about Pate Island’s vulnerability to prolonged power disruptions.

The proposed tax cuts present a difficult balancing act for a cash-strapped National Treasury already grappling with a Sh1.2 trillion budget deficit.

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