Walking With the Maasai and Other Adventures

As they bumped along the road to the Maasai Mara, they heard a helicopter traveling very low. This was the 1st working day of Di and Leonie’s safari and a Kenya Wildlife Support (KWS) chopper was ushering an elephant back into the park. What an fascinating way to start their week in Kenya! This publish tells of their June safari through Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and Amboseli.

On their arrival they spent the very first evening at Wildebeest Eco Camp nestled in the silent, green suburb of Karen in Nairobi’s south-west. Rested and refreshed, they headed to the Maasai Mara the upcoming working day. It was on this generate to Kenya’s premier game reserve that they watched the KWS helicopter herding a stray elephant back to within the park boundaries. Human-wildlife conflict is a consistent obstacle for conservationists in Kenya and elephants can be specially damaging in a area of crops, which can result in retaliation from the group whose crops have been ruined. So it is really imperative to maintain the elephants in the security of the park to prevent this sort of conflict.

They entered the park and savored a match generate as they produced their way to Aruba Camp wherever they would shell out the next two evenings. For the duration of their time in the Maasai Mara Video game Reserve they observed a leopard with its supper – a Thomson’s gazelle – that it experienced dragged up into the tree. They also noticed a leopard tortoise, a Marshall Eagle, buffalo herds, Lilac-breasted Roller (Kenya’s nationwide bird), giraffes, elephants, topis, hyena, lions, ostrich and a puff adder. On their comprehensive day recreation push, they liked a picnic lunch in the center of the savannah. In advance of leaving the Maasai Mara, they visited a Maasai village, which was a extended stroll than predicted, demonstrating that the Maasai definition of “not far” may possibly be a bit various to an Australian definition!

Lake Nakuru Nationwide Park
The next quit was Lake Nakuru National Park. They stayed two nights a couple of kilometres outdoors the park at a camp named Punda Milias (“Zebra” in KiSwahili). A lot more buffalos in this article and also rhinos! Makalia Falls at the south conclude of the park was gushing down as June delivers an end to the wet period.

A limited drive took them to Lake Naivasha exactly where they invested a night time at Camp Carnelleys. The excitement below was a crack in! Monkeys obtained in their home though they were out.

Lastly, they went to Kibo Camp, for two nights at Amboseli National Park. Flamingoes were loads in Lake Amboseli – which does not seem substantially like a lake in the dry period so viewing flamingoes below is rather specific.

Becoming the admin gal, I will not normally get to meet up with our guests, regardless of commonly paying out lots of months emailing every other preparing their safari. So if there is an excuse to do an airport choose up or fall off or a little something related then I never head. This time it was a digital camera scenario and battery left guiding in the car. Di and Leonie had long gone on to Tanzania and had been traveling back to Nairobi and then on house. So during their transit, I went to the airport to try to produce the products. It was a little bit of a mission and it was fantastic that they had various several hours to get rid of. I was passed from pillar to put up till just one immigration formal advised me that Di and Leonie would have to talk nicely to the immigration officers within to allow them to come out to meet up with me. I practically gave up hope, but then Leonie uncovered me wandering outdoors the terminal! Surprisingly it had worked. Battery shipped, we manufactured our means home… one journey drastically distinctive to the other, no question reflecting the major differences in journey every single had just had.