Nairobi. Southeastern Kenya, Southern Rift Valley, Western Kenya Anthony Ham is a freelance writer and photographer who specialises in Spain, East and Southern Africa, the Arctic and the Middle East. In 2001, after years of wandering the world, Anthony finally found his spiritual home when he fell irretrievably in love with Madrid on his first visit to the city. Less than a year later, he arrived there on a one-way ticket, with not a word of Spanish and not knowing a single person in the city.
When he finally left Madrid 10 years later, Anthony spoke Spanish with a Madrid accent, was married to a local and Madrid had become his second home. Now back in Australia, Anthony continues to travel the world in search of stories. Anthony also wrote the Plan, Understand and Survival Guide chapters for this book. Central Highlands & Laikipia. Northern Kenya Originally from Canada, Shawn Duthie has been travelling, studying and working around the world for the past 13 years.
A love of travel merged with an interest in international politics. which led to several years of lecturing at the University of Cape Town and, now, as a freelance political risk consultant specialising in African countries. Shawn lives in South Africa and takes any excuse to travel around this amazing continent. South Coast. North Coast Originally from the Soviet Union, Anna Kaminski grew up in Cambridge.
UK. Her restless wanderings led her to settle briefly in Oaxaca and Bangkok and her flirtation with criminal law saw her volunteering as a lawyer's assistant in the courts, ghettos and prisons of Kingston, Jamaica. Anna has contributed to almost 30 Lonely Planet titles and has had her share of memorable experiences - from seeing the sun rise from the top of Borneo's Mt Kinabalu and riding all day on horseback to visit the Tsaatan reindeer herders on the border between Mongolia and Russia, to spending the night in a Latvian Soviet-era prison and attending a Vodou ritual in Haiti.
David Lukas wrote the Wildlife & Habitat chapter. He is a freelance naturalist who lives next to Yosemite National Park in California. He writes extensively about the world's wildlife, and has contributed to wildlife chapters for eight Lonely Planet guides on Africa, ranging from Ethiopia to Africa.