The animals are not the dangerous part of Africa.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five men armed with guns and machetes ambushed and robbed nine tourists returning from an evening game drive in Kenya's world famous Maasai Mara game reserve, police said on Tuesday.


One of them was injured with a machete cut.

The tourists -- from the United States, South Africa and Japan -- were returning to their resorts at the park in southwestern Kenya when they were attacked on Monday evening.

"They said their vehicle was ambushed from a game drive ... by five gunmen," Daniel Muleli, a chief inspector at the Tourist Police Unit, told Reuters.

The assailants took cameras and money from the tourists and their drivers. "One of the tourists was cut on his thumb with a simi (machete)," Muleli added.

Kenya Tourism Board spokeswoman Ann Kanini said the tourists comprised two Americans, a South African couple and five Japanese. She said the Japanese man struck by the machete had been flown to hospital in Nairobi.

Rift Valley Provincial Police Officer Joseph Kitony said police and wildlife rangers were trying to track the attackers.

Kenya's tourism sector, which took a dive after al Qaeda-blamed attacks in 1998 and 2002, is a mainstay of the east Africa nation's economy.

Why don't these little bastards come on down to one of the hunting concessions to pull their stunts. That's gonna be fun... Add them to the list of game available on a 10 day license. Now, what would caliber would you use? Fast and light, or big and heavy? I'll take my 375 with 235's for dramatic "effect"

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Originally posted by ManCannon:
Why don't these little bastards come on down to one of the hunting concessions to pull their stunts. That's gonna be fun... Add them to the list of game available on a 10 day license. Now, what would caliber would you use? Fast and light, or big and heavy? I'll take my 375 with 235's for dramatic "effect"

Watch out what you wish for.
After dinner around the fire with a whisky in your hand discussing the day, I do not think the 375 will be within reach for the action comming your way. Remember it is the criminal that have the ellement off suprise in their favour. They will not send you a message telling you when to be readdy for the attack.
MHO

Taking a persons life is not fun, sometimes it has to be done but it is never fun. When it becomes fun you have to go see a shrink.

Wimpie