Learn More About East Africa

Zebras at Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Photo by Richard G. Beyer

The East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have long been romanticized in story and fable and the region remains today one of the most fascinating destinations on earth.

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"I fell in love with Kenya on the very first
day of my first safari. It is by far the most
incredible destination in the world."
--- American tour operator quoted in my
book manuscript, YOUR FIRST SAFARI.

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Little over one hundred years ago the "early" explorers Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speake, Joseph Thomson, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley and others were some of the first Europeans to penetrate beyond the tropical, palm-lined, sugar-sand beaches of the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa.

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"In the span of one man's lifetime, I
have seen jungle turned into farmland
and cannibal tribes become factory workers."
--- J. A. Hunter, HUNTER

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In 1908 America's extremely popular president, Theodore Roosevelt, decided a one year safari in East Africa was preferable to four more years in Washington. His 1909 safari is still discussed in East Africa today. American filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson spent four years in East Africa during the 1920's at Lake Paradise in northern Kenya. Their many films, photographs and books brought Africa to America.

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"Here, certainly, was Africa as God made it--
to me at least, the most interesting and
thrilling land on earth."
--- Martin Johnson, OVER AFRICAN JUNGLES

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In more recent decades Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen), Beryl Markham and others have captivated hearts and imaginations the world over with tales of romance, adventure, danger and excitement on safari in the game-filled vastness of East Africa's wild savannahs.

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"They say man is God's masterpeice, and I never
believed it since I saw my first elephant...
But when you see the futility of politicians,
the needlessness of wars, the utter damned
stupid cruelty of man to himself, the elephant
stands as a monument to God in His Wisdom."
--- Robert Ruark, THE HONEY BADGER

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But time is running out rapidly. Today may be our last chance to behold this fragile Eden. Please let me encourage all of you who have held on to this dream, as I did, to begin planning NOW to visit East Africa on a photographic safari as soon as possible. There is no experience on earth like it and if you will shop hard and really work at this goal it may cost much less than you imagine. The best help we can give the peoples and the wildlife of East Africa is to support them with our tourist dollars. In the end, this is all that will save the wildlife and the wild places. If we fail to sustain that tourism then the entire world will be the loser. RGB

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