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Africa-Press – Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>It\u2019s an OMG moment that within minutes of landing at Ol Pejeta, the wildlife conservancy on the equator, a cheetah struts the plains. We follow her at a respectable distance. She\u2019s calm, she\u2019s confident and marks her territory by peeing on the acacia trees.<\/p>\n

Showing her picture to the guides at Ol Pejeta, Leila Amankwar, who doubles up as the guide at Ol Pejeta\u2019s chimpanzee sanctuary, thinks it is Nyokabi, the famous cheetah named after the conservancy\u2019s first female ranger. She had a litter of four and one of the cubs is Zawadi named after Zacharia Kipkirui Mutai, the head rhino caretaker.<\/p>\n

Nyokabi then focuses on a herd of Grant\u2019s gazelles and stalks \u2013 prey and predator vanish into the horizon and we continue to check in at the lodge, Sweetwaters Serena.<\/p>\n

Now if that isn\u2019t excitement enough, not far from her in the horizon is a pair of rhinos \u2013 our indigenous black which you can tell from the profile. Our Kenyan black rhino are browsers so they hold their heads up. It\u2019s a calf with the mum.<\/p>\n

By the time we reach the lodge, we\u2019ve seen four of the Big Five: Cheetah (can replace the leopard), elephants, rhinos both black and white, buffalos and plenty of plains game including the northern species like the Reticulated Giraffe.<\/p>\n

Life just keeps getting better. After a sumptuous lunch and siesta, the afternoon game drive with Nathifu Abdi, the female driver-guide at Serena, has us crossing the bridge spanning the Ewaso Nyiro River, the life-lung of the arid north.<\/p>\n

Elephants are advised to cross two at a time because that\u2019s all the weight the bridge can handle. A pride of lions relax at the dam nearby after which we\u2019re treated to sun-downers by the swamp teeming with elephants. It\u2019s ethereal.<\/p>\n

The following day, it\u2019s to the chimpanzee\u2019s sanctuary which is super entertaining as the apes play and squabble. These are the lucky few rescued from the evils of the illegal trade in wildlife for the pet industry.<\/p>\n

Like in the case of cheetah cubs stolen from the mother, infant chimpanzees are also stolen from the mother who is most often killed by the poachers to get to the baby. Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, care for their young as we do.<\/p>\n

Inside the education centre, there\u2019s more to discover including seeing the cage that Poco who we have just met, was imprisoned in for nine years. Unable to stand, he arrived at the sanctuary traumatised. When the 12-year-old girl enters, she can only couch in the cage.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re off to visit Baraka, the blind black rhino born in the wilds of Ol Pejeta who lost one eye after getting involved in a fight and the other due to a cataract. Now safe in his private suite, he allows us to pet him, feed him and when he\u2019s tired of us, strolls off.<\/p>\n

A short drive away we\u2019re at the tombstones of the rhinos \u2013 many poached for their horn that\u2019s actually tightly bound hair and the few who died a natural death like Morani who, like Baraka, was pretty tame.<\/p>\n

Finally, we arrive at the equator line that marks the divide between the northern and southern hemisphere and shown a simple demo of the Coriolis effect on water and weather \u2013 it makes storms swirl clockwise in the Southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Then it\u2019s lunch by the busy waterhole when another pair of black rhino appears for a drink. Lunch is abandoned as everyone wants the iconic picture of the rare mega-herbivore joining us for lunch.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much more to do at Ol Pejeta, from night game drives to the African wild dogs that nearly became extinct a century ago.<\/p>\n

Gist<\/b><\/p>\n

Ol Pejeta sits in Laikipia County in central Kenya, to the northwest of Nairobi. Laikipia is the gateway to Kenya\u2019s northern frontier. Its most renowned landmark is the 5,199 metre (17,057 ft) high Mount Kenya. The county\u2019s wildlife density is second only to the Maasai Mara ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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