• OMG I nearly shit myself.
    Our gorgeous tent.King of the jungle.Off to the Massai Mara.Thomson gazellesTopisWaiting for the right moment.SunsetsIts freezing as soon as the sun goes down.

    Off to the Massai Mara

    13 Haziran 2023, Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Another early start today, we’re catching a light plane to the the Massai Mara. It’s a 2 hour drive to the airstrip and our guide is worried about getting us there on time so we’re leaving at 7.

    He’s got his foot down this morning but we did have time to stop for a lioness just a few meters off the road and then her cub sitting up looking at us a few meters on. She is the head lioness and has a tracking collar on. Only the head lioness has the collar, supposedly if they know where she is they know where all the Pride are.

    Jim knows a shortcut back to the main road so we can avoid some of the truck traffic that is so horrendous on that highway. Skinny little rutted dirt road and Jim was flying along at more than 100 ks, I think I was 2 inches shorter by the time we got back to the highway.

    The plane came right on time. It’s more or less a milk run between the different camps and we landed once to drop some people off and then another quick ten minute flight to our airstrip. This airstrip is busy, six little planes landing and one bigger one. Lots of people changing planes, I’m sure they must be timed to all land at similar times because five minutes after we landed they were all gone.

    The Massai Mara is totally different to where we’ve just come from. It is wide open savannah with the odd tree here and there. The are more trees around the river beds and waterholes. Definitely big sky country, you can see for miles.

    We have a Massai Warrior guide here. His name is Joseph he has two wives and six children, pretty normal here apparently. It took us about an hour to drive back to camp stopping a few times to look at Giraffes, Impala, Waterbuck, Topis, Tommys, there are so many grazing animals here, lots of birds too. Almost at the camp and we came across a pair of mating lions, oh my goodness they were so close, and then started walking right up to the car. This car has no windows and no roof and I was thinking that’s it we’re going to be eaten but they just circled around and keep going. Phew!!!
    Joseph tells me they see the car as one entity, too big for them to worry about, until someone gets out. There was another car next to us and they settled into its shade. It had a little boy in it and I think he waved his arm out the window. Something anyway for the male lion to snap at it. I nearly wet my pants. 😂
    Okumaya devam et