…next time you see them they will have guests in them. Working alongside our architect duo of Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, Jan has crafted 30 masterpieces in his Nairobi…
…more we got on each other’s nerves. Somewhere in that crossfire Lesley Carstens, Silvio’s partner both on and off screen and a hugely talented architect, quietly just went about smoothing…
How can a website do this lovely corner of Africa justice? How to adequately portray Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens’ architectural ingenuity, Jan Allan’s sweeping tents, Nicky’s knack for storytelling…
…renowned architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens and polished with fine finishes. It has just also been voted the #1 Resort in Africa and #5 in the world by Conde…
…Rech and Lesley Carstens. Having hauled our newly purchased metric measuring tools, we are Americans after all, with us (bush plane baggage limits be damned) so that we could wrap…
It was my first trip to Kenya and my excitement was high, though I deliberately tempered my expectations — surely the Mara could not actually be paradise on earth and…
…at the ‘engineering complexities’ that a railroad traversing the African Rift Valley might involve. Thanks to Errol Trzebinski’s wonderful book The Life and Death of Lord Errol and James Fox’s…
…were firmly fixed on crossings this week, those who left the beaten path might have been rewarded with a great sighting of a bat-eared fox. [f 5.6, 1/640, ISO 200]…
…fox. We found a den with 6 individuals in residence. The den is well concealed by the only bit of long grass left in the Triangle post the Migration which…
…the easily overlooked animals of the Maasai Mara – the bat-eared fox. Look at those ears! [f 4.0, 1/320, ISO 400, +0.33] The libraries at both camps at Angama Mara…