# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BXQImCOFsbU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2430266-kirstenalana-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0a4d4efd27.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-08-01T13:01:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

## Caption

It's August already?! Time sure has flown by since I returned from my #sponsored trip to Kenya with @amarula_official for the #DontLetThemDisappear campaign. When we were in Amboseli time seemed to take on a more relaxed quality, to bend and stretch as if operating on a different plane than time does back home. Sometimes we'd park for hours just to observe elephants. Or we'd stop moving for long enough to really watch the setting sun color the sky in every shade of ochre, not just look up at the sky and marvel at the colors for a fleeting moment before shoving on into rush hour crowds like I do in NYC. Just such a prolonged pause is what @truthslinger captured here during Sundowners on top of a hill in Amboseli. The flat expanse of the park is laid bare before me and to our left is Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mutua had graciously given of his time to take one photo for me, and then one turned into ten and we kept moving, trying all the different vantage points and all the different light. After more than half a dozen trips to Africa I can tell you this is what happens, you come to a place where you live inside #MadeFromAfrica moments that you never want to end.🙏🏼 (And you never want your glass of #Amarula to empty! 😝) If only such a stretching of time was possible!
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Since it's not, that means there are less than 2 weeks left till #WorldElephantDay and I hope you'll join me in finding every way possible to be part of the fight to save these gentle giants.
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Once my giveaway concludes tomorrow, I'll replace that #linkinprofile with a link to some resources that will help you if, like me, you want to join @paula_kahumbu and @wildlifedirect in saving African Elephants.

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linkinprofile, worldelephantday, amarula, madefromafrica, sponsored, dontletthemdisappear

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