I was in the first group to fly over to Maasai Mara National Reserve, and area of preserved savannah wilderness in southwestern Kenya. It was a huge relief to leave the heat and humidity of Illeret.
The weather was much cooler and we even had some rain. On our way to the Mara Simba Lodge we saw giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffalos and ostriches along with some smaller gazelles named Thompson’s gazelle.
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The animals were much closer to the road so I was able to get some decent pictures.Saw so many zebras!Sunday was probably the best day, we saw a group of nine elephants including a baby one.We saw many huge herds of wildebeests.A lot of the dirt roads were muddy from the rains, our drivers were quite expert in going through these.And through large puddles like this. (Yes, it looks more like a pond)There’s Pearl in the lead jeep, we had two safari jeeps for our group.A group of female lions that were walking down the road.Our group, plus our drivers. Names will come later.
