Dark Skies and Wild Nights: This New Safari Camp in Kenya Lets You Sleep Under the Stars
At this new safari camp in Kenya, the adventure doesn't end when the sun goes down. Instead, the night sky becomes the main attraction.
Megan Eaves is a freelance journalist, editor and author. She was previously Lonely Planet's North and Central Asia editor and was editor of Visit Uzbekistan Magazine. She is now the editor of Nightscape, the magazine of DarkSky International.
Her work appears in National Geographic, BBC Travel, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, Lonely Planet, CNN, Metro, AFAR, Culture Trip, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Travel Weekly and others. She has written Lonely Planet guidebooks to China, South Korea, Tibet and London and edited dozens more, as well as DK guides to China, Shanghai, Beijing and Florida, and the Insider's Guide to El Paso. She has strong regional specialisations in China, Central Asia, the former Soviet Union and the Southwest USA, and also regularly covers science, astronomy, dark skies, space, nature conservation, sustainability, the environment, the outdoors and beer.
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