Masai Mara, Kenya Travel Blogs

Erin sees her buffalo
Aug 3, 2008 (21 photos)

... 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
Aug 2, 2008 (85 photos)

... 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 the ...

Four of the Big Five
Aug 1, 2008 (46 photos)

... room to spread out, and the van was pretty comfortable in any case. If I haven't mentioned this already, the roads in Kenya are horrible.  This road was no exception.  They are unpaved and full of potholes.  We passed two trailer trucks ...

Safari Time
Aug 16, 2003

... 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 the ...

Great African Trek Week 6
Sep 28, 2009 (42 photos)

... 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 with ...

The Masai Mara
Jul 29, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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
Aug 27, 2008 (10 photos)

more animals.....

Safari!
Mar 26, 2009 (30 photos)

... late) and I have just enough time to catch a taxi to Wilson Airport for my flight. The Masai Mara National Reserve is located in Western Kenya and borders on the Tanzanian Serengeti. Flew into Ngerende airstrip (after three other stops within the park at ...

Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
Oct 15, 2008 (20 photos)

... 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 tents ...

18/07/09
Jul 18, 2009

... 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 plane ...

masai
Oct 16, 2006 (15 photos)

... 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 clapped etc ...

The Great Migration (Walk This Way)
Aug 28, 2009 (6 photos)

... 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. km ...

Jumpy Bumpy and Very Grumpy
Nov 16, 2009 (9 photos)

... 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 constant ...

Safari through Kenya
May 20, 2007

... 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 ...

safari day 3
Aug 28, 2008 (5 photos)

and more.....

Masai Mara
Feb 13, 2006 (34 photos)

February 13 and 14 were primarily spent in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. As usual it was often a bumpy ride from Lake Naivasha to the Massai Mara but some of the roads were better than we had been on. After we had turned from the main road on to the road ...

Masai Mara - day 3
Sep 14, 2007

Day 3 started with a bang! As we headed out from the lodge, we turned left instead of right and headed up into the foothills, rather than out onto the savannah. After about 15 minutes bumping through the trees we arrived at the cross-roads of a couple of ...

Safari
Sep 12, 2007

... the dirt roads with multiple potholes (zio Bruno, I need a local 311 number to fix the potholes!), we arrived at the beginning of Masai Mara in the early afternoon.  Not only did we see beautiful Masais along the road, a zebra just lounging & a ...

Big Five...BIG FUN!!!!
Sep 3, 2009 (1 photos)

... with us in our safari jeep everyday and we ate most dinners with them at night. We tried some new drinks in Kenya....Kenya Gold (coffee liqueur), Amarilla (fruit creme liquor), Rock Shandy (spelling maybe wrong...but this is soda water, bitters and lime ...

Masai Mara Village
Feb 19, 2008 (2 photos)

We visited a Masai village.  We toured the living quarters of the Chief's son, named Wilson.  He is a very bright and educated young man.  We were only allowed to visit with them for 30 minutes at a cost of $20.  They are very smart ...

Safari
Feb 18, 2008 (2 photos)

I would have never thought that one day I would be going on a safari in Kenya.  I have watched documentaries of safaris and never dreamed of watching lions walk up and down the road.  I am use to seeing dogs do that.  This is an awesome ...

So THAT'S where all the Wildebeest went!
Sep 18, 2006 (17 photos)

... and the tar disappeared altogether. It was very bumpy indeed, but it wasn't until we went through the first gate for Masai Mara Nature Reserve that our problems really began... We got completely and utterly bogged in the mud, and it took nearly 3 hours ...

Send your Love Seed now...
Jul 27, 2009 (1 photos)

... to let him know they are crashing his place (now I know where the sock on the door knob evolved from). We ended the Masai Mara with everyone happy that they had seen the migration from the Serengeti and happy with the animals we saw. Now I am off to ...

Safari in the Masai Mara
Jul 14, 2006 (20 photos)

The Masai Mara is HUGE! The plains are wide, the sky is immense & the animals are widely spread out. Although the Mara National Reserve is a protected area, there is no fencing of any kind. This means that all of the surrounding land (villages, lodges, ...

Masai Mara - day 2
Sep 13, 2007

Our first real day of safari...  And it started early:  we were in the jeep at 8am for a full day's game drive. Unfortunately the weather didn't exactly cooperate and it started raining mid-morning and kept going (off and on) for most of the day ...

19/07/09
Jul 19, 2009

... a cup of tea. It was all much civilised. In the afternoon we went over the hill behind the camp to a greener part of the Mara and while we were watching out for leopard we manage to find another couple of courting lions. It was one of the best evening ...

20/07/09
Jul 20, 2009

On the way to the morning drive we found a den of hyenas and spent quite a bit of time with them, we were so close that we nearly could touch them and they look cute when they are not showing their teeth. We then headed toward the river for breakfast ...

This is THE place
Jul 27, 2009 (28 photos)

... these animals has been such a highlight that it is hard not to rant. These animals and their habitats are threatened as Kenya has been deforested and is in drought as a result and the pattern of lessening rainfall is removing the grasses and feed for the ...

Masai Mara National Park
Apr 11, 2009 (18 photos)

... I've been in Kenya just over one week now, a few days in Nairobi, the capital, then I took a 4 day camping safari in the Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru National Parks, and now I'm back in Nairobi again.  Nairobi has a population of about 4 million and is ...

21/07/09
Jul 21, 2009

As the "hunter family" took a hot air balloon ride we went out and before we stopped for breakfast we seen lions, cheetahs with its cubs and the all elusive leopard. It was interesting to note that as they are really hard to spot it was a queue to watch ...