Our last day on the Mara, and for Mum and I, also the last day of our safari. In order to make the best use of the light, we set off from camp a little earlier this morning, so that we could get into the park as soon as it opened. We drove down to…
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Our second full day on the Mara started out with a pair of Grant gazelles locking horns, just inside the park boundaries. We also had a lovely view of the sunrise hot air balloon rides… so much more fun to be in one, though! A new bird sighting, in the form of a pair of…
The Maasai Mara certainly lived up to its big cat reputation today. After driving around for a couple of hours, and taking in the zebra, impala and giraffes, we were called by the other vehicle to a cheetah sighting. Four cheetah – three males and a female, snoozing by a small waterhole. They were very…
On the road again early this morning. We arrived at the airport at about 6.30 where we met up with Chris, wildlife photographer and our tour leader, and met another of the participants. We had a bit of a wait for the rest of the group – Arie arrived in from Amsterdam on time just…
Today marked the end of the first part of our trip, and we left Amboseli at around 8am to return to Nairobi. It was a long hot drive of about 6 hours, and we didn’t stop anywhere en route. Whilst flying into the parks would definitely save a lot of time, you would certainly miss…
It’s our last day in Amboseli, and it seems to have come around very quickly. We started out with an early game drive, and the intention to try and find the lion we saw last night. We didn’t succeed, but we did find something even more exciting – a group of 3 cheetah. The cheetahs…
Lots of young folk on our afternoon game drive today – first we happened upon a pair of crested cranes with a couple of chicks, and then a little further along, a pair of ostrich with a family of 11 chicks. I’m glad I’m not an ostrich – those eggs are huge, imagine having to…
We were up at the unearthly hour of 4am this morning, as we had a treat in store – a sunrise hot air balloon ride. Along with 6 others we were driven about 6km away from the hotel, outside the park boundary, to the balloon launch site, in time for a 6.30 launch. It may…
The clouds have cleared a little, and we got our day off to a good start with some elephants, and a nice view of Kilimanjaro in the background. After leaving the ellies, we continued driving, and I had a lot of fun trying to photograph running wildebeest. It’s quite a challenge when the jeep is…
We had a fairly early start this morning as we had a long drive ahead to our next destination, Amboseli National Park, located on the border with Tanzania, and famed for its view onto Mount Kilimanjaro. Despite the fact that Peter was worried about us reaching Amboseli in time for lunch, he was determined that…