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Welcome to the Hotel California (part 1)

Posted on 19. Apr, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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We descend through a veil of poisonous brown smog and alight on a runway lined with a fiery explosion of red and orange marigolds. It’s a fitting entry into a city that combines extremes–fantasy and reality, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness–like no other. We have come to Los Angeles to attend Canada Media Marketplace, [...]

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A Beastly Place (part 3)

Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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“This is where the miracle happened,” says Mustafa. As we drive through the gates into Samburu National Reserve, our Kenyan guide relates the extraordinary story. In 2002, a solitary lioness at Samburu stunned onlookers by adopting a baby oryx, a type of antelope that lions normally feast on. Amazingly, she kept the calf by her [...]

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Never Try to Get a Wild Animal to Pose with You (part 2)

Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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One thing quickly becomes evident about Kenya–it has excellent beer. I spend my first afternoon in Nairobi drinking Tuskers beside the Jacaranda Hotel’s swimming pool. This lager, which was said to be Ernest Hemingway’s favourite beer, is made Kenya Breweries, founded in 1922 by George and Charles Hurst. The company logo–a tusked elephant–honours the memory [...]

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Touch Down in Nairobi (part 1)

Posted on 12. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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I landed at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the early morning after a mind-bending 28 hours in transit. It was not the ideal way to start a two-week African wildlife safari, but I at least had a day to recuperate before we were supposed hit the road. Even though my bags were the last [...]