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Pajero Shenanigans by Peggy, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Pajero Shenanigans by Peggy

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... and we were all on the wrong side of the bed! We stopped bickering long enough to get into the vehicles and head for Masai Mara National park. Tristan, Roman, Fabyan and I were in the Pajero (Tristan’s and my vehicle) in complete and awkward ...

En route to Masai Mara, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

En route to Masai Mara

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... vérifié les pneus et tout, une heure avait déjà passé. Il nous a fallu un autre 5h pour faire 220kms pour arriver à Masai Mara ... Je n'ai jamais vu une route en si mauvais état... 80kms environ de nids de poule, tôle ondulée et tout le reste. ...

Masai Mara safari, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Masai Mara safari

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... time I get there, they disperse, no doubt knowing it is getting late for loud voices! ... hum! Corinne **** 18 août après-midi, Masai Mara Safari Bien que nous avions lu sur la migration des gnous, il est difficile de l'imaginer jusqu'à ce que nous en ...

The Big Five, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The Big Five

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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Thursday morning I was up bright and early for my adventure to the Masai Mara National Park. Eventually my safari vehicle picked me up right outside the apartments gate (good service) and I was off. We had a good group going, it was myself and two couples ...

Masai Mara, resting day, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Masai Mara, resting day

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... ... so, hopefully, be aware Well Aware to leave some money for years to come to check on projects!   Corinne 20 août Masai Mara   Jour de repos Après 13h de piste hier, aujourd'hui est un jour de repos ... nous nous levons quand ...

Masai Mara whole day safari, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Masai Mara whole day safari

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... indeed... why can’t I be an “easy sleepy, happy go lucky” type of girlie??!!  Corinne ******* 19 août Masai Mara   Journée entière de safari "Où est la carte, Maman?? Nous nous retrouverons quelque part plus tard; un ...

Erin sees her buffalo, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Erin sees her buffalo

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... nbsp; It was pretty cool.  After some time spent with our buffalo herd, we turned around and said goodbye to the Mara.  After breakfast we began the long drive back to Nairobi. Going on safari was an amazing experience and I'm really glad ...

The Wildebeest Migration, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The Wildebeest Migration

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... stop at the border.  There's a sort of pyramidal stone in the middle of nowhere that denotes the border between Kenya and Tanzania, Maasai Mara and Serengeti.  Its plinth is a couple feet above the ground, and Dixon told us that that's where ...

Four of the Big Five, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Four of the Big Five

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... we didn't exactly have a lot of cash to spare.  There were other issues as well.  It was apparently high season in Kenya and Tanzania, and we would need to find at least a couple more people to make a safari cost effective. We would probably ...

The African Savannah - Masai Mara, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The African Savannah - Masai Mara

A travel blog entry by suenson_taylors

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... stretches for miles. From the vantage point of our camp, we can look out across the open rolling golden grasslands of the Masai Mara plains. The vista is dotted with lone Acacia trees that stand around 3 metres tall and provide some shade to the animals ...

Safari Time, Masai Mara, Kenya travel blog

Safari Time

A travel blog entry by whereshegoes

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... that I hadn't given in to the party the night before. The lodge was set in the Oloolaimutia valley on a hillside overlooking the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The heat rippled over the horizon as we set off after lunch on our first game drive. I could hear ...

Great African Trek Week 6, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Great African Trek Week 6

A travel blog entry by alandrach

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... East Africa will separate away from the main continent at this point. We drove for the rest of the afternoon to get to the Masai Mara National Park. We set up camp which lucky for us did not include putting up tents since they had permanent tents there ...

The Masai Mara, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The Masai Mara

A travel blog entry by kyliebruce

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... off to the Masai Mara. After a long drive, we spent a couple of hours in the afternoon doing a game drive through the Masai Mara.  It wasn't the most successfull of game drives, we didn't see a huge amount.  The highlight was most definately ...

safari day 2, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

safari day 2

A travel blog entry by tobi

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5.01 - Kenya, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya travel blog

5.01 - Kenya

A travel blog entry by edaradi

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... mosquitos away, but you never feel clean and it attracts a constant coating of clay dust. We ended the week with three days in Masai Mara national park, which is part of the same plain as the Serengeti (but on the Kenya side of the border).  That's ...

The Masai Mara, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The Masai Mara

A travel blog entry by sabarod

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... for a 6:30am departure into downtown Nairobi.  We were to meet the newbies before loading into minivans for the 1/2 day to the Masai Mara.  Shashe would stay in Nairobi for this one - the roads were horrendous! At first glance, seeing the entire ...

Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

A travel blog entry by brockandlisa

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... we had the right guys....our Masai posse.   We arrived at our campsite, Acacia Camp, around 3pm just outside Masai Mara.  Campsites are different here, They have great permanent tents usually set-up on a wooden platforms.  The ...

18/07/09, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

18/07/09

A travel blog entry by fbauchet

... and I have been told have made a couple or records. Well they all decided to take the long way and drive for 8 hours to Masai Mara in the purpose of immersing themselves into the culture. Good luck with that. So when the time came we embarked on the ...

Sunrise/Sunset, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Sunrise/Sunset

A travel blog entry by mightyperlines

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... an easy thing to do!) It's all so foreign and beautiful.  The people are SO nice and helpful.  I keep thinking of the Masai people living right outside my door in mud huts.  I would be miserable but they are genuinely happy.  They have ...

masai, Masai Mara, Kenya travel blog

masai

A travel blog entry by fragglerock

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... . Thankfuly the shoot was called off. The lead actess (a former German playboy model I might add) fell off a horse. * Headed off to the Masai Mara on Sunday 8th. First we went to the local masai village. We took pics - they took $10 They danced - We ...

Lions, zebras and Masai-oh my!, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Lions, zebras and Masai-oh my!

A travel blog entry by mightyperlines

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... to a doctor who made one up for him.  He could guess his birth year based on the death of the first president of Kenya.  He wore his traditional clothes in New York.  He went to school through 8th grade and his kids go to school.  It ...

First safari, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

First safari

A travel blog entry by gcmozafer

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... to go to them all. And with a few months in Africa, I don't even have to do it here in Kenya. What makes me chose Masai Mara is the annual wildebeest migration, where hundred thousands of these animals run across the plain and river on their way back to ...

The Great Migration (Walk This Way), Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The Great Migration (Walk This Way)

A travel blog entry by boydandrose

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... in the Masai community and cattle are considered sacred as they believe that cows are a gift from God.     The Masai Mara Game Reserve was established in 1961. It is located 275 km. (171 mi.) southwest of Nairobi and covers 1800 sq. ...

Nairobi to Masai Mara, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Nairobi to Masai Mara

A travel blog entry by london_to_ct

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Day 40 We woke at first light in order to make progress to our first game park of the trip, the Masai Mara. On our Nairobi host, Chris' advice we took the escarpment road down which gave us some spectacular views of the plains over an almost sheer drop ...

Leopards, cheetahs and the balloon flight, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Leopards, cheetahs and the balloon flight

A travel blog entry by bradmccartney

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... to one side. Kinda fun really. Upon exiting the balloon I looked at my surroundings. I was in the middle of the Masai Mara grasslands having flown over elephants, lions, hyenas, buffalo and countless other animals capable of inflicting injury on me if ...

Jumpy Bumpy and Very Grumpy, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Jumpy Bumpy and Very Grumpy

A travel blog entry by corrilesa

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... tour and inevitably that involves a lot of driving but after 7 hours on a hot, dusty and very bumpy road from Nairobi to the Masai Mara I was beginning to think it really wasn't worth it. It felt like what I imagine being in a washing machine on a ...

Safari through Kenya, Lake Nakuru, Lake Navaisha, Loita Hills, Masai Mara, Kenya travel blog

Safari through Kenya

A travel blog entry by careysenior

... be...that's only 4.  Those blinking leopards were just too canny for us so I got the big 4.  The plains of the Masai Mara were pretty awesome, good to see landscapes that haven't been cut up by fences. We camped next to a Masai ...

The migration, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya travel blog

The migration

A travel blog entry by jodiesorrell

... ; A bulky guy wearing green and carrying a semi automatic.  He was to show me the hippos and the crocodiles that call the Mara River home.  I asked Edwin, 'How long will this take?' 'Oh, about five minutes.' I should have known better, but ...

safari day 3, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

safari day 3

A travel blog entry by tobi

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Game Drives at Maasai Mara National Reserve, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya travel blog

Game Drives at Maasai Mara National Reserve

A travel blog entry by andrewpaterson

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... .  Half of them were play fighting on one side of our truck while the other half were bathing on the other side. Overall Masai Mara was pretty wicked, especially for the lions we saw, but I was a tad disappointed to have not seen a leopard or ...

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