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Masai Mara
Travel Blogs from Masai Mara, Kenya
Mara Magic with a Yank
Today it was Masai Mara Magic with a Yank - our new mate David (alias John as Kev kept calling him) tried his best to upset the German tourists in the other safari trucks!!! Thousands of wildebeest as far as the eye could see. A busy day thanks to ...
Game Driving in the Masai Mara
... soon high tailed it when we stopped but not before we managed to snap off a couple of quick shots. We had a fantastic day on the Masai Mara and it was everything we had hoped and imagined it to be. Back at camp we chose to skip an optional visit to the ...
The Mara and the Masais
... (or rather, not) to sleep by a cacophony of baying dogs (!) and then we got an early start on the 6 hour drive to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The roads to the Mara are notoriously bad (they nearly caused the tour operators to go on strike a few years ...
Picnic in the savanah
... that, we spend some time playing cards. We are very tired, but the night is going to be not as quiet as we would like to. We can hear the cattle from the masai village, and lots of dogs barking all night long. Don't know what happened, we'll ask tomorrow. ...
#9. HUJAMBO KENYA!
... , kudu, wildebeest Birds: Rich variety, including ostrich and birds of prey such as vultures are commonly found in Masai Mara as also in other Kenya national parks. Other parks in Kenya such as Lake Nakuru, however, have a more diverse birdlife than the ...
#10. HUJAMBO KENYA!
... grasslands to enable the safari vans to go in search of animals; or, up close to the animals. However, in Masai Mara, or other game reserves in Kenya, one is not allowed to ‘make’ one’s own tracks – that means that the ...
Roughing It Richly
Drove this morning to the Masai Mara game reserve. We had lunch with a family from the US embassy in Kenya (the Blanes). John said that Jomo Kenyatta would be around for at least five more years, which was good, because no one knew if the country would ...
#8. HUJAMBO KENYA!
... several of them in their traditional dress) selling Maasai handicraft items, and on the threshold of Masai Mara we made our first purchase of souvenirs in Kenya. Peter came back after completing the formalities. Our van moved towards the closed iron ...
Who would be a Lioness?!
... neck for the trouble ... who would be a lioness?!!!! On top of that we also went to the point where Tanzania meets Kenya in the Serengetti/Masai Mara plain ... so I managed to achieve the super human feat of being in 2 places at once! :-) At this point ...
Another Beautiful Day in the Mara
Today I went for another walk with my guide from yesterday and his friend, Dixon. I saw cows and goats getting dipped in chemicals to prevent different diseases but I was a little worried about the humans who were standing in the dip. I saw ...
The Mara
A trip to Kenya is not complete without a trip to the world famous Mara Game Reserve on the border of west Kenya and Tanzania. Here animals roam freely and scores of tourists traipse around in Land Rovers to catch a glimpse of elephants, lions, ...
Hunting Lions
One of the most impressive things we have seen at Mara was towards the sunset of the last day. Suddenly a group of female lions started moving and we followed them in search of a prey Some buffalos are at sight, seems like a good dinner smells like ...
In the cradle with mother nature
This Safari was one of the best experiences in my life!!! It took around7 hours from Nairobi to get to Masai Mara, we left Nairobi at 8am, already close to Nairobi we could admire the Rift valley, the first beauty of mother nature on the way. The ...
The Big Four
... companies had answered, no one is going to Tsavo/Amboseli but I have a group leaving Saturday morning and returning Monday that will visit Masai Mara. I felt this was the final sign that I should indeed go to the Mara. So after days of denying that ...
A dream come true - our African Safari!
... dinner. Tom and Dana had booked massages, and I blogged…again…. Sunday, September 4th – Hippo Breakfast, Masai Mara Cultural Experience, last Game Drive Happy Anniversary to us! 23 years of marriage, and look where we get to ...
Masai Mara
5th November - We had a two hour game drive in the Mara; we got within inches of a pride of lions after they had fed on a nearby buffalo (see pictures), giraffe, warthog, buffalo, baboons, impala and on our way our of the park a herd of ...
Kwaheri....(good bye)
I'm on my way out to to catch a plane to Masai Mara for a 3-day safari...it's been fun taking you all on this journey with me. 211 children and adults were screened 138 surgeries were performed 240 procedures were done Asante sana (thank you very ...
Masai Mara
today we are on our way to Masai Mara from Naivasha..What a bumpy ride but so magnificent. We go straight to our camp called the Big Time Camp which was so quante and dropped our bags off in our tent. The tent was a nice size with a toilet and a showe in ...
Jambo Jambo!!
... to keep "roughing" it in my tent, as it's quite cozy and I can use the extra $$ for souvenirs! Finally on to the Masai Mara!! the African Grasslands - it's the Kenyan side of the Serengetti. It's such a beautifl place - so open and relaxing, and so ...
2 days in the Masai Mara
... drive around 8.30am. I don't think we will ever complain about Sydney roads ever again, as nothing can compare the roads through Kenya, although I will probably say Tanzania is worse in a later entry. We arrive at our camp around 2.30. we have until 4pm ...
#11. HUJAMBO KENYA!
Hujambo Kenya! Chapter 10 Lion King! December 23, 2008. Day 3. Masai Mara The dark bejewelled cloak over the Dark Continent – Africa – was still in place when I woke up, once again, a little before the 'wake up' call was scheduled at ...
#12. HUJAMBO KENYA!
Hujambo Kenya! Chapter 11 In Search of a Yawn… December 23, 2008. Day 3. Masai Mara After breakfast and freshening up, we decided to visit the Hippo Bar again to while away the few hours before lunch. I, anyway, wanted to take some ...
The Mara river
The Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania are part of the same natural reserve. The border corresponds somewhat with the river Mara which is where the annual migration of the gnus takes places. We drove down all the way to the border with ...