Maasai Mara

31/08/14

Friday afternoon we traveled to Narok where we spent the night.  Early on Saturday morning we got up to travel to the game park in Maasai Mara. The annual migration was on and there were literally millions of animals to be seen.  Here are some of the animals we saw.

Young male lions

Pretty bird

Cheetah

Guinea hens

Tembo - elephant

All of the lions we saw were resting

Buzzards enjoying a meal - circle of life stuff

Baby hippo

Sleeping croc - they sleep with their mouths open and birds come and pick their teeth

Mama simba and her cubs

Cape buffalo

The pride had made a kill and eaten and left this one to guard the food

Baboon

Male osterich

Twiga - giraffe

A silhouette shot of the migration of wildebeestes

We had a great day in the park and as we were driving home, we came upon a wreck that had just happened minutes before.  Apparently it was a one-van accident when the driver lost control on the gravel road.  No one was badly hurt beyond scrapes and minor aches.  As we were miles from anywhere, we piled all the luggage of the passengers on the Prado and took six of them back with us to Narok, leaving the driver and one other to deal with the police.  They were still in shock from the accident, and they couldn't understand why perfect strangers would be so kind. Somehow we managed to squeeze ten of us in a vehicle that only comfortably fits seven. Good thing they were all young people and fairly thin.

Again we want to thank all of you for your prayers to God for us and we thank Him for His mercy and grace.  We are in Nairobi for two nights until we fly back to the US on Tuesday.