Bobong Camels

21/11/2024

Fire and light under the starry African Sky.

Camping out with the camels in the Mara.

14/11/2024

Emuria and the Bobong camels crossing the Mara River during their 10 day trek from Mara East to Lake Victoria with .

02/11/2024

The team are on the way to Narok to start the next big trek.

Bobong Camels we will see you soon!

20/10/2024

The next generation of camels on Ol Maisor. 🐪

16/07/2024

Beautiful scenes captured by the talented Jeffery James on his recent walk in North Kenya with the Bobong Team.

Kenya 2024

07/07/2024

The Bobong team have just returned from a thrilling journey through the untamed wilderness of Northern Kenya, where few travellers dare to tread on foot. They were immersed in breathtaking landscapes, and the vibrant Samburu culture and ended each walk with the enchanting magic of campfire folktales under starlit skies.



📸 Sam Rapoport

25/06/2024

The team successfully walked the camels up into the Ndoto’s and is now preparing for the second part of the adventure back to Laikipia, beginning on Thursday. It promises to be an exciting journey with bush adventures along the Milgis River.

01/01/2024

Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. Here’s to another year around the sun making adventures. 🥂🐪🍻🐪

Happy New Year!



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31/12/2023

Amanda jots down a “behind the scenes” blog on what it takes to be prepared for a big safari like to Soysambu to Coast safari:

“I’m upside down again with my nose in a box for the last time, and it finally hits home that it’s all over. Almost. The camels are saddled and on the way to a suitable spot for loading. Once they’re all safely home with their handlers, we can really breathe freely and say it’s over.

The long-suffering car is also loaded up and waiting to take as much luggage as possible to go on the lorries with the camels back to the Soysambu starting base. The balance is being gathered together into piles to go home.

Memories of the preparations for the trip come flooding back; the bag of dried fruit that’s left over and the stress when the dehydrator gave up. Fresh produce was not going to be readily available for the three months of the safari, other than when re-supplies could get in. And that brought its own logistics - where, how and when.

These meant working out roughly from the chosen route how far and matching it to dates; co-ordinating dates with willing friends who know the various unknown to us areas, or to come on safari with us just for the jaunt; days spent pouring over maps spread across the table, with the essential magnifying glass, and deciphering names and route notes taken from these reccee drives, writing down distances as we bounced along rough bush tracks, and getting missing sections from Roisin, who knows, as the younger generation, how to work google; contacting names we’d been given by more friends to get further local information on suitable routes and places to stay, or things to see, and alternative routes to ensure we could still get through.
And this, as we discovered, was only very approximate as our distances on the ground turned into half as much again. Some sections also changed on the ground, although the general direction of south-east all the way remained steady. Fences, erosion and different places to see, or avoid, are not on the map.

Read the rest of the blog by clicking the link: https://www.bobongcamels.com/post/behind-the-scenes-preparations-for-a-big-trip).

17/12/2023

Memories are forever!

Lovely snapshots from from the last ten days on the Soysambu to Coast safari.

14/12/2023

After a restful few days on the beach, it was time to get the camels and team loaded up on the trucks to head home.

This afternoon, after a lot of muscle power, sun and sweats - the team were fully loaded and have begun their drive back to . All being well, they will arrive there tomorrow.

The camels do not particularly like travelling by truck and would typically prefer waking home. But due to the distance to return home in this particular case, this was the best option.

10/12/2023

Cameleer feature - TINGEAN

Tingean has floated in and out of our lives for many years, mostly doing camel safaris when we needed extra people, or people who know the area or language of where we’re going. He is a Ndorobo (the remnants of the hunter-gather tribes) who comes from the Ewaso area.
When he is not working with us Tingean has his own cattle and shoats to tend to. In his younger days he did cattle herding on the farm, but now fills in more with camel herding, when not on safari.

This is Bev and Kathy’s first safari with Tingean, and we couldn’t be happier to travel with such a happy and gentle-souled drover as him. He is very perceptive and seems to be instinctively aware of what needs to be done along the way.
Although he doesn’t speak many words of English, communication is never a problem.
But please, let us talk about his music. Tingean has a natural gift of music and a beautiful voice, and his ability to create music while we are walking and while in camp on the chamonge is very soothing and that we will never forget. Asante sana Tingean.

I love his gentle connection with the camels. It’s usually Tingean quietly going amongst the camels at bed time treating their sores with Barabara, and observing their health. When it’s time to offload he’s chatting away to them and thanks them as he removes their head rope for them to go off grazing. There’s never an upset camel in his hands. And as Bev says, he sings quietly as he walks, lulling everyone, and camels do love to be sung to!