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Wild life

Wild life

16 July 2015

1:00 PM

16 July 2015

1:00 PM

Laikipia

A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700 miles from the Kalahari desert to Kenya. They were on their way to Sudan. They carried all their needs on their tough Botswana cattle station ponies, with one spare horse following behind.

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