Tropical
Sails Corp is offering a Safari to Kenya for the November 3, 2013
Total Solar Eclipse.
The
solar eclipse safari will commence in Nairobi Oct. 25, 2013, where
you will board your seven passenger four
wheeldrive safari vehicle and proceed to the Masai
Mara for three days of game viewing exploring the
plains and rolling hills for a chance to spot
the elephant, black-manned lion, leopard, buffalo, cheetah, and
diverse species of hoofed animals.
Lake
Naivasha in the Rift Valley Escarpment is your next stop visiting
Hell's Gate National Park enroute. Lake Naivasha is a diverse bird
and animal
habitat, Colobus monkeys are often seen in the
canopy of the Acacia forests around the lake, and on the north shore
of the lake buffalo, waterbuck and eland are often seen grazing.
On
November 3, 2013 we will go to Lodwar and then north for the total
solar eclipse that will occur at 4:24 pm local time and will last for
16 seconds. Pre and partial phases will last over two hours. We will
return to Lodwar for evening celebration.
"This
will be a fast solar eclipse equivalent to what usually appears on
television," according to Dan Oppliger of Tropical Sails. I plan
to just let the video camera run and enjoy a 16 seconds of totality.
The thrill will make the long three days on the road worth the trip."
The
Safari includes modern 7 passenger safari vehicles, tented camps or
lodges, all meals, bottled water, solar eclipse viewing glasses and
guides. The safari operator has conducted two prior solar eclipse
safaris in southern Africa. Tropical Sails Corp has run fifteen solar
eclipse expeditions beginning in 1991 in Baja
California Sur, Mexico.
