{"id":8728,"date":"2018-08-09T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/AFRICAtime\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2020-07-08T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:57:17","slug":"spotted-on-safari-the-king-of-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/spotted-on-safari-the-king-of-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted on Safari – The king of the jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In honour of World Lion Day, for this week’s ‘Spotted on Safari’ we have selected some of our favourite images of Lions, taken at several game reserves in Kenya, by our experienced driver-guides, who have a keen eye for photography. We hope you enjoy seeing them.<\/p>\n

Known for their earth shattering roars, giant paws and majestic manes, lions are often a sign of strength and power. Individually, they usually are quite imposing. Collectively though, they are a species in trouble.<\/em> Gary E. Knell, president and CEO, National Geographic Society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

World Lion Day aims to raise awareness of\u00a0\u00a0the ‘king of the jungle,\u2019 whose populations are in decline and is now considered an endangered animal. This celebration was founded by Big Cat Rescue, the world\u2019s largest accredited sanctuary dedicated to big cats. August 10th every year is a day for people to pay tribute to the mighty feline in as many ways as possible, and we are celebrating by sharing\u00a0our favourite photos of this majestic hunter.<\/p>\n

\"Lion

Photo credit: Martin Weru<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lion

Photo credit: Martin Weru<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lion

Photo credit: Daniel Thuo<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Two

Lions<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Resting

Photo credit: Daniel Thuo<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lion

Photo credit: Martin Weru<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Two

Photo Credit: Imtiaz Rehemtullah<\/p><\/div>\n

We hope that seeing these wonderful images by our driver-guides has inspired you to want to go on safari, and enjoy seeing these animals yourself, and to help, we have some amazing itineraries available.<\/p>\n

We would love to work with you to plan the safari holiday of a lifetime. For more information on how our safari experts can help you, call Somak Holidays today on 020 8423 3000, or visit our website here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.somak.com\/kenya-safari<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have been on safari with us and have some wonderful photos of Lions to share we would love to see them! Share them on Instagram and tag #OnSafariwithSomak or share them on our Facebook page\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/somakholidays\/\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[604,11,1,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-africa","category-kenya","category-uncategorized","category-wildlife-and-safari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/959c5542-6993-43fe-8d4e-d897122fc8f6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}