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The everlasting love story is brewed in wild Samburu

The Sundowner in Samburu is quite a spectacle!

“If one happens to die, the other one, out of stress will die too,” Chris whispers as our cameras shutter for the spectacle. Lying under shrub are two dik-diks, they seem to be in deep conversation about the changing dollar currency and the rise of ‘Trumpency’.

 As our tour guide drives closer, they stand up almost instantly, in unison like skilled morans. Their hind limbs are slightly shorter and their movements are faintly stifled by slight gait as they walk. They are tiny, almost thirty centimetres high with short cute horns to show and speed of God to escape the constant dangers of lightning cheetahs of the savannahs.

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