Samburu safari guide in Kenya, Africa
Teenage boys fishing Ewaso Ng'iro River, Kenya, Africa
School children play with an elephant outside Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
Leopard on the Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa
Wildebeest and zebras migrate, Kenya, Africa
Children at community center, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
Sabuk Lodge, Kenya, Africa
Yellow-vented bulbul, Laikipia, Kenya, Africa
View of Masai Mara from hot air balloon, Kenya, Africa
Hot air balloon preps for takeoff, Kenya, Africa
Giraffes on Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa
Masai men participate in tribal dance, Kenya, Africa
Lone tree on Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa
Norie Quintos and sons during safari, Kenya, Africa
1 of 14
kenya samburu guideNational Geographic Traveler senior editor Norie Quintos recently returned from a safari in Kenya with her two teenage sons. Read her Intelligent Travel blogs.We felt completely at ease walking around the African bush with our Samburu guide, who could read every broken twig, dropped scat, and embedded pawprint left by passing fauna. He oozed a sort of lanky, manly assuredness lacking in city boys back home. No matter that the guy was wearing a red-and-white dress and had a feather poking out of his forehead. It was a good lesson for my boys, who at ages 13 and 15 are negotiating the complex route to manhood. We climbed this rocky outcropping as our guide looked for game, and his feather blew in the breeze.
Photograph by Norie Quintos

Kenya Safari

See photos from a Kenyan safari in this travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

October 20, 2010

LIMITED TIME OFFER

Get a FREE tote featuring 1 of 7 ICONIC PLACES OF THE WORLD

Go Further