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    Burning the candle at both ends: Night hide photography and helicopter flights

    January 3, 2026

    We recently returned to Kenya. It's been over twenty years since our first ever safari there. It was a very different experience back then. A very brief fly into the Mara, told through this earlier blog, led us to our love of Africa. It seemed fitting to choose our 20th year to return. This time to a very different experience of night hide photography, doors off helicopters, and early morning elephant encounters.

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