"A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes" ~Maasai proverb
Tuesday:
Yesterday was a long day. We left the Four Seasons Safari Lodge in the Serengeti at about 7:30am, and took our time getting to the airport, spotting many different animals, kind of like a farewell committee.
Even though our next destination, the Maasai Mara, is only directly north of the Serengeti, we had to take a very roundabout way of getting there since we had to clear customs and go through the entire security process. So, from the Seronera airport, we were taken to Lake Victoria, where we connected to Edmonet(???), where we had to stop to clear the Kenyan customs. From there, we were flown to the Maasai Mara. It was a lot of flying. I'm officially not a huge fan of small planes.
It took us five minutes to get to the camp where we are staying, and we had a late lunch. We were given about an hour of downtime before our afternoon game drive, during which time I took a small nap. I really wasn't feeling well after those three small planes.
We met up with our new guide, Edwin, for our afternoon game drive, which was much quieter than we were expecting it to be. After talking to many different people about what the Maasai Mara would be like, we were expecting to see animals everywhere, filling the plains. But on our afternoon game drive, we saw very little. We did get a chance to see some lions sleeping, along with a few small herds of zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, and antelopes.
This is the first sights that we had... It didn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy. It's a hippo skeleton. The crazy part is that the hippo had only been dead for a week.
Yesterday was a long day. We left the Four Seasons Safari Lodge in the Serengeti at about 7:30am, and took our time getting to the airport, spotting many different animals, kind of like a farewell committee.
Even though our next destination, the Maasai Mara, is only directly north of the Serengeti, we had to take a very roundabout way of getting there since we had to clear customs and go through the entire security process. So, from the Seronera airport, we were taken to Lake Victoria, where we connected to Edmonet(???), where we had to stop to clear the Kenyan customs. From there, we were flown to the Maasai Mara. It was a lot of flying. I'm officially not a huge fan of small planes.
It took us five minutes to get to the camp where we are staying, and we had a late lunch. We were given about an hour of downtime before our afternoon game drive, during which time I took a small nap. I really wasn't feeling well after those three small planes.
We met up with our new guide, Edwin, for our afternoon game drive, which was much quieter than we were expecting it to be. After talking to many different people about what the Maasai Mara would be like, we were expecting to see animals everywhere, filling the plains. But on our afternoon game drive, we saw very little. We did get a chance to see some lions sleeping, along with a few small herds of zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, and antelopes.
We moved on to happier thoughts...
Then Edwin and our driver took us out into the boonies because there had been a cat sighting. When we got there, we finally saw our first wild cheetah. We had seen a cheetah in Livingstone, but it was in an enclosure for a cheetah-walking experience. It was exciting to see an actual cheetah in it's natural habitat.
When we were done with the cheetah, it was time to head back to the camp, since they are pretty strict about being back to camp by sundown. We witnessed another beautiful African sunset on the way home.
Tomorrow is our last day out on a game drive. Hopefully, we get so see some really interesting and beautiful things. We are trying to set up a hot air balloon ride before we leave, but we don't know if it is going to work out. We didn't realize that we should have booked that sort of thing way in advance, but I'm optimistic that it will happen!
Cindy:
Tuesday:
We traveled this morning from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara. Which means 3 more flights on small planes and immigration and customs crossing the boarder between Tanzania and Kenya. We had to disembark when we landed in Kenya, have our passports checked.......they only screened 5 out of the 8 bags on board and then we got back on the same plane to complete our flight to the Maasai Mara.
Too funny, but not something to laugh at while going through the process. Nicki's being a trouper as her stomach isn't doing so hot with all the ups, downs and all a rounds.
We've arrived!!!!! This is really a neat place, we have our own tent equipped with a full bathroom, etc right on the Talek river. We will be heading out for a game drive in about 30 mins. Then back to get cleaned up for dinner and animal watching from the lodge area. This camp only has 10 tents........pretty sweet.
Our game drive in the afternoon wasn't super successful - we saw a cheetah resting. She was beautiful.
We traveled this morning from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara. Which means 3 more flights on small planes and immigration and customs crossing the boarder between Tanzania and Kenya. We had to disembark when we landed in Kenya, have our passports checked.......they only screened 5 out of the 8 bags on board and then we got back on the same plane to complete our flight to the Maasai Mara.
Too funny, but not something to laugh at while going through the process. Nicki's being a trouper as her stomach isn't doing so hot with all the ups, downs and all a rounds.
We've arrived!!!!! This is really a neat place, we have our own tent equipped with a full bathroom, etc right on the Talek river. We will be heading out for a game drive in about 30 mins. Then back to get cleaned up for dinner and animal watching from the lodge area. This camp only has 10 tents........pretty sweet.
Our game drive in the afternoon wasn't super successful - we saw a cheetah resting. She was beautiful.
We got back to the lodge about 7:00 pm and rushed to get cleaned up for dinner. Then we (Nicki) tried to post yesterday's blog update and it took forever.......so, we gave up and will try it again today. We might be a couple of days without updates because of our location- sorry.
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