Sunday, October 12, 2008

Safari to the Maasai mara

Hey everybody,

Well, I have just returned from one of the most amazing weekends of my life! Six of my friends from Kijabe and I spent three days treking through the Maasai mara game park. We left early Friday morning, taking 5 hours to travel there, and then on our arrival spent the afternoon and evening on a game drive. Here is the group...

Unfortunately we just missed the mass Wildebeast migration, but were lucky to see the last remnants on their way to Tanzania.
The tallest land mammal on earth and probably my favourite for the weekend.

One of the most amazing experiences of the weekend was being in the middle of a herd of elephants on the move. They are so graceful for such huge animals.



We made a quick trip to Tanzania for lunch (well, the tanzanian side of the Mara river), and were lucky enough to see Hippos fighting in the water.

And finally, early sunday morning we were lucky enough to witness a pride of lions making a kill. This is one of the young males trying to drag the remains of the water buffalo into the shade and away from the vultures.

The elder male of the group (yes we were this close).

One of the lionesses. Okay, I did use my zoom a wee bit.

This is a picture of the tented village we stayed in. Very authentic :)

And thats me. It was a entirely wonderful and exhausting weekend, and so now I intend to fall into bed. I'm looking forward to my last two weeks in Kenya, which I am spending in adult paeds (as opposed to baby paeds where I've been). Love you all and see you soon!