{"id":20249,"date":"2022-09-12T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=20249"},"modified":"2022-11-10T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T04:17:14","slug":"better-than-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=20249","title":{"rendered":"Better Than Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Linda Lou Burton posting from Sweetwaters Serena Camp, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Nanyuki, Kenya<\/em> \u2013 Ol Pejeta Conservancy is \u2013 well, it\u2019s better than Disneyland! For animal lovers \u2013 it offers more than any zoo you\u2019ve ever been to. For nature lovers \u2013 it offers more change of scene than any hike you\u2019ve ever walked in the remotest of hills. For sheer accomplishment and impact, well, read on, in fact, go to THEIR website and spend the day learning about this magnificent place on the Equator in the foothills of Mt Kenya. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/\">https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20267\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4-1024x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4-1024x274.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4-768x205.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2268-4.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Here are a few basics about Ol Pejeta.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a not-for-profit wildlife conservancy in Central Kenya&#8217;s Laikipia County, providing \u201cinnovative, tangible, sustainable conservation for wildlife and people.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s big, and broad \u2013 90,000 acres containing 4 key habitats (plains, riverine, wetlands and mixed acacia bushland), hundreds of species and thousands of animals, and is surrounded by a population of more than 50,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s home to the Big Five \u2013 lion, leopard, elephant, cape buffalo, and rhinoceros \u2013 as well as giraffes, hippos, hyenas, baboons, and endangered species like the African wild dog, cheetah and oryx.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, with a population of over 140 black rhinos, a critically endangered species.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s home to the world\u2019s last two remaining northern white rhinos. Najin, 32, and her daughter Fatu, who is in her twenties, live in a 700-acre 24-hour secured enclosure. The last male of the species, Sudan, died in 2018.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s the only place in Kenya to see chimpanzees, in a sanctuary established to rehabilitate animals rescued from the black market.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s home to a herd of 6,000 bush-savvy purebred Boran cattle. Livestock-wildlife integration is beneficial to the grassland as bunched grazing breaks hardpan soil and fertilizes the ground.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s supporting the people living around its borders through infrastructure and economic projects and education and healthcare efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good news for you, and me, Ol Pejeta welcomes and embraces visitors! It offers nine tented camps (Globus booked us into Sweetwaters Serena), lodges and homestays, and five campsites. Do you want pampered luxury and table-waited dining, or camping in the wild (you know, those middle-of-the night sounds when animals scratch around your tent)? Either way, you\u2019ll wake up surrounded by NATURE, with the chance of more adventure than, well, that other place I mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>And the RIDES at Ol Pejeta are in open-air 4x4s splashing through rocky creekbeds in pursuit of the latest reported elephant sighting, or pausing to watch a baby rhino and its mom feeding in the quiet of wide-open spaces, or the dark of night when the spotter&#8217;s light catches a lion couple in repose.<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20258\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2-1024x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2-1024x389.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCN2581-2.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Trip Advisors Travelers Choice again this year, and 100% of profits from tourist dollars are reinvested into conservation and community development. A visit isn\u2019t just good for you, it\u2019s good for Kenya\u2019s natural heritage, and its people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Animals: Ol Pejeta Wildlife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/wildlife\/\">https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/wildlife\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Projects: Ol Pejeta Conservation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/conservation\/\">https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/conservation\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Places to Stay and Things To Do: Ol Pejeta Escapes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/ol-pejeta-escapes\/\">https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/ol-pejeta-escapes\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Involved Wherever You Are: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/get-involved\/\">https:\/\/www.olpejetaconservancy.org\/get-involved\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Lou Burton posting from Sweetwaters Serena Camp, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Nanyuki, Kenya \u2013 Ol Pejeta Conservancy is \u2013 well, it\u2019s better than Disneyland! For animal lovers \u2013 it offers more than any zoo you\u2019ve ever been to. For nature lovers \u2013 it offers more change of scene than any hike you\u2019ve ever walked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4318,4319],"tags":[4427,4338,4428,4423,4426,4429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20930,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions\/20930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}