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Masai Mara
Travel Blogs from Masai Mara, Kenya
Hippos!
Sigh, another beautiful day in the Masai Mara! We left the camp at 7am for a game drive. Thanks to Emma's eagle eyes, we saw a cheetah fairly early on and then our group created the usual tourist feeding frenzy of photographers from other vehicles. ...
Maxing and Relaxing in the Mara
Today I saw the rest of the group off and then spent a lovely day in the Mara. With a Masai guide, I climbed the local mountain that is home to the telecommunications towers -- the view was great! It was a steep hike up -- took about 75min. ...
Fin de la semaine Safari !
... ; on pourrait se lever tous les matins avec cette vue qu’on ne s’en lasserait pas ! Le lendemain départ pour le Masai Mara, et là c’est THE parc qu’il faut faire au Kenya. C’est un peu comme le Matchupichu au Pérou ou ...
Safari!!
... it was a little tense for me and it was a bit bumpy/shaky but we made it there in one piece. We are now in the Masai Mara for a 3 day safari, staying at the Kichwa Tembo camp. From the airstrip we took a jeep to the camp and saw animals along the way, ...
Come on Wildebeests, you can do it!!!
... that don't make it. And there's tons of dead carcassesthat float down the river current. There are alot of dead wildebeests all over the Mara-just the circle of life. Crocodiles also wait for them to cross but we didn't see any. So we were there for ...
The Masai Mara Game Reserve
The Masai Mara (becomes the Serengeti in Tanzania) is one of the greatest wildlife areas in the world. We are spending 3 days here at the Mara Sarova Tented Camp. This place is first class - it even has a pool. Here we saw our fiirst cheetahs. I also ...
A Kenyan kaleidoscope, part 2
... with Tanzania. Although we saw many spectacular sights on our four game drives, the people were the highlight of our time in Maasai Mara. Specifically, our guides Charles and Lepapa; a traditional Maasai boy (at 26, he won’t be a man for another ...
Safari!
... to see lions, elephants and giraffe of course but didn’t know how common it was to find animals. The Masai Mara is in south-western Kenya and stretches down into Tanzania where it continues on to become the Serengeti National Park. We were all in ...
Mar 31, 1995
Maasai Mara NP
In less then 2 hours we spoted 4 of the big 5. Black Rhino, Buffalos, Elephants, Lions. The next day we spoted the last one, leppard. And it's supposed to be the season with least ...
Roughing it? I don't think so....
... to our tent. The Mosquito net is down and the water bottle is under our sheets. The night is cool and Cory and I curl up together and fall asleep, in a tent, in the middle of the Masai Mara, in the middle of Kenya. It doesn't get any better than this. ...
Title to come
... nigh-on impossible and finally, frustratingly laughably out of the question that we would make our connecting flight out to the Masai Mara, we began working on contingencies, even speaking to my insurance broker in the middle of a Felixstowe boys football ...
Lions, Tigers and Bears...oh my!!!
... but lets not forget we are on "kenya time" so really it started quite late on Friday monring) when 30 of us departed for the Masai Mara. After approx. 8 hours on some of the worst roads we have ever seen (we're still surprised some of the cars are able to ...
Masai Mara National Reserve
It had been two years since my last African game safari but as we approached the outskirts of the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the excitement of entering an open-air living zoo of African wildlife in its natural surroundings came flooding back. ...
Our Adventures on the way to the Masai Mara
... and I should get it tomorrow... I finally get to wear something clean... very exciting!! Today we got up early and headed to Masai Mara. We got news that it had rained so some of the guides seemed a little worried about the roads.... really how bad ...
Day 5
... some of the people in the group were pretty nervous. Went on our first game drive following some afternoon tea. The Masai Mara is absolutely amazing with the beautiful rolling Savannah dotted on occasion with trees and green hills. We saw lots of ...
Safari!
Well, I am back from one of the most memorable weekends of my life! We went to the Mara reserve which is in southwest Kenya along the Tanzanian border. We stayed at a place called the Mara Serena, which was on a large plateau in the reserve. The view into ...
Masai Mara
... Mara Sopa Lodge (128 miles south of the equator). The grounds of the lodge were absolutely gorgeous, with many beautiful plants. The Masai Mara is the northern part of the Serengeti eco-system and has an amazing concentration of wildlife. We got there in ...
Masai Mara – The Great Migration
... divided into teams with several different 7 seaters vans. The vans is quite comfortable actually, it's just the road between Nairobi and Masai Mara was really bumpy, it took us around 5 hours drive from Nairobi to reach our camp in Masai Mara. We left ...
Game Parks & wildlife - Kenya
Leaving the city behind we made our way to the Masai Mara, Kenya's most famous game reserve. On route we passed through many small villages where the people would came running out of their mud huts to wave to us and shout 'Jambo', which means ...
two great days in the reserve
... , true wilderness with life and death not far apart, very proud people of the Masai tribe. We did went to the Mara River, hiked with some Masai guides up a mountain, had a picnic lunch in the park disturbed by hungry monkeys and saw lots and lots of ...
African Lion Safari on Steroids!
Wow. Today exceeded expectations -- the Masai Mara is like African Lion Safari (a drive through game park near Toronto) on steroids! We drove to and through the park in the van -- the top pops up (reminded me on a Little People toy). The day ...
Masai Mara National Reserve
... plus our captain. It was a beautiful day; we could not have asked for better weather. We had an incredible view of the Masai Mara game reserve during our 90 minute balloon ride. On landing close to the Tanzania border I was asked to jump out and run ...
Masai Mara and a road journey inside Kenya
... between fresh patches of green grass. The regions where they migrate to are mostly in Tanzania, but they also include Masai Mara in Kenya. As I expected, the migration reached Masai Mara when we were there. We saw tens of thousands of the wildebeests ...