Masai Mara
Travel Blogs from Masai Mara, Kenya
Pajero Shenanigans by Peggy
... 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
... 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
... 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
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
... ... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
5.01 - Kenya
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... . 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!
... 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
... 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)
... 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
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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... ; 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 ...
Game Drives at Maasai Mara National Reserve
... . 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 ...

