{"id":2037,"date":"2013-10-24T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2013-10-24T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T06:00:14","slug":"leopard-photocall-in-the-mara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/leopard-photocall-in-the-mara\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard photocall in the Mara!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Africa, is one of the latest bloggers to capture Africa on camera \u2013 his recent jaunt on our<a title=\"Kenya &amp; Tanzania Adventure - 13KTA13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_overland\/kenya_and_tanzania_adventure_2013.php\">\u00a0<b>13-day Kenya &amp; Tanzania Adventure<\/b>\u00a0<\/a> overland expedition taking him to the Mara and more. We\u2019re starting the online game drive with some highlights of Johnny\u2019s wildlife viewing in Kenya\u2019s best loved game reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFixing my new 55-210mm camera lens, I looked the part of a photographer and was ready to go\u2026Not more than a few minutes driving on the park\u2019s dirt roads, we saw a huge male cape buffalo chilling by itself. This thing was massive and even the driver said that this one was one of the largest he\u2019s seen. Another minute or two of driving, we saw a group of giraffes grazing, some zebras, antelopes, and then a big group of elephants with their babies&#8230;Within the span of 15 minutes, we had already seen two of the Big Five and a lot of them too.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2038\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=2038\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2038\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2038\" alt=\"Image by: Johnny Chan\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC03346_2.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by: Johnny Chan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The constant radio communication between the guides produced a win-win situation for Johnny and his fellow safari goers and who wouldn\u2019t want to spy a leopard on their first trip into the wilderness!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pulled up next to a thick bushed acacia\u00a0tree with probably a hundred people staring and that means one thing, Leopard! What a great start to our trip to\u00a0spot a leopard the first day, the hardest of the Big Five to see as they rarely stray away from the trees. The Canadian girl on\u00a0our trip that had already been to three other parks had not even seen a leopard until now. We stayed here\u00a0for almost an hour, driving around the tree to get the best views. It was incredibly hard to spot this thing as the sun was\u00a0setting and the leopard blended so well with the dense bushes of the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=2029\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2029\" alt=\"ani_Leopard_13\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ani_Leopard_13.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fancy stalking rhinos, hanging out with lions and lunching with hippos check out more of the Mara on Johnny Africa\u2019s second game drive, and\u00a0<a title=\"Johnnyafrica.com \" href=\"http:\/\/johnnyafrica.com\/2013\/10\/14\/kenya-and-tanzania-the-masai-mara\/#\/11\"><b>head on down to his blog<\/b><\/a>\u00a0. Currently enjoying a career move from the US to sunny South Africa Johnny also has heaps more information to share on travel and living the ex-pat life in the\u00a0<a title=\"Rainbow Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/johnnyafrica.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Rainbow Nation<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog by: Johnny Chen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Africa, is one of the latest bloggers to capture Africa on camera \u2013 his recent jaunt on our\u00a013-day Kenya &amp; Tanzania Adventure\u00a0 overland expedition taking him to the Mara&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,11,32,20,27],"tags":[48,50,75,77,94,128,249,254,271,319,329,342,378,421],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-about-acacia-africa","category-acacia","category-kenya","category-overland","category-tanzania","category-zanzibar","tag-adventure","tag-africa","tag-big-five","tag-bloggers","tag-camping","tag-culture","tag-local-responsible-travel","tag-maasai-mara","tag-nairobi","tag-responsible-tourism","tag-safari","tag-serengeti","tag-travel","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leopard photocall in the Mara! 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