"What a sorrow, what a sad world, where the savannah fades in the shade."
Laurent Baheux hands us his earpiece.
The voice of singer Bénabar resonates in our ears, far from the Vincennes zoo which is mentioned in this song.
Bringuebalé inside a Land Rover, his imposing lenses with very long focal length posed beside him, Laurent smiles:
“It's the complete opposite of this song that I come to seek here.
Free savannah, which does not fade. "
Here, it is the Masai Mara: the emblematic reserve of Kenya where in particular takes place a breathtaking migratory episode of wildebeest and zebras which attracts, each year, tourists from all over the world.
But like all parks and reserves on the African continent, the Masai Mara was not spared and lost a frightening number of animals.
Laurent Baheux
A fantasized savannah
It is there, in this flat bush from which emerge a few discreet valleys, that Meryl Streep and Robert Redford made the whole world dream in a few scenes of
Out of Africa
;
and that the famous documentary
Felines,
from Disney, was filmed.
"I do not get enough.
And I will never get tired of it, I believe.
This show awakens some
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