Life in the Maasai Mara

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2022

The beautiful Luluka

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Nov17

Another chance to get out into the park today. One of our guests kindly allowed us to accompany him on a full day game drive. It had rained the previous day and, in the night, well more of a drizzle really but it gave the earth a fresh damp earth smell, and the earth really needed it. We left camp early this morning, taking with us our breakfast and lunch. As the sky brightened from

Blackrock cubs

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Nov01

It’s good to be going out on a game drive this morning, I have waited three months, first because of a broken wrist, then high season and the jeep was booked. So, I am really looking forward to the day, it doesn’t matter to me what I see or don’t see I know I will enjoy it anyway.The terrain is so different from the last time we took a game drive, all the marshy areas

The Honeymoon Couple

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Aug01

The plan this morning is to stay away from the main roads and the many other tourist vehicles, as much as possible, so we drive across the plains just outside our camp and head for the hills. Alison tells us that the sopa pride were in this area just yesterday. There are another three vehicles searching for the pride, they are difficult to find, the terrain is challenging. The hills are thick with bushes and

Migration in full flow

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Jul24

This week I’m going to continue on the theme of the wildebeest migration. When the Wildebeest gather in huge numbers on the northern Serengeti getting ready to cross the Mara River with all its dangers. This is what attracts hundreds of tourists to the Maasai Mara in July and August.Most people have heard of the great wildebeest migration, which also includes thousands of zebra, most have also seen footage of this spectacle on national geographic