Beneath mosquito nets with a large fan swooshing quietly overhead.
Opened the door on the second evening (thank goodness not the first night, otherwise I would have been paranoid the whole stay) to find a snake draped across the doorstep. Alan threw a towel over it while I screeched and jumped on a chair! No phone in the room, so we had to step over it to fetch help: or should I say , took a long jump over it! Help arrived in the form of 3 men with large sticks who beat the towel until the snake was reduced to pulp! Our guide told us it was most likely a cobra!
This is the Ol Tukai Lodge in the middle of Amboseli Park, famous for its 1000 or so elephants that roam safely with Kilomanjaro as a backdrop.
Baboons are a pest at meal times, so some Masai patrol the area warding them off. Lovely friendly guys who chat freely in English that they are all taught at school, those that attend of course. And no, they don't just dress up for tourists; we see them in the fields everywhere we have been, dressed just like this. (Minus the jewellry).
We had some close encounters with beautiful elephants, and took great pride in personally spotting the elusive cheetah and called all the other guides to tell them. Not once, but twice, and the second one was very pregnant. Very exciting.
We're past the snapping every sighting of a wild animal: we now take great joy in just observing these wonderful creatures in their natural habitat.
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