Striped Hyena at Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley's dramatic tectonic trench, with its escarpments and volcanic peaks framing soda lakes, savannah grassland, acacia woodland and scrubby bushveld, provides a striking backdrop for tracking the elusive Striped Hyena. Photographers joining NaturesLens' Wildlife of Shompole Wilderness holiday have the chance to search this varied terrain for the species, with October proving the typical month to visit. The mosaic of habitats across the valley floor offers a genuinely atmospheric setting for capturing this rarely-photographed carnivore against Kenya's iconic rift landscape.