Special Treasures

Our special little girls, Halle(L) and Toi(R), asleep on our floor in front of our Christmas tree.

Kenya - Maasi Mara 2 (Aug '12)

The border between Kenya and Tanzania, and yes, I did enter Tanzania illegally without a visa.  I am a rebel!

Hippos sunning themselves by the river

This was the largest group of giraffe we saw, and there were more out of the picture too.

The big cats were all very well fed what with all the wilderbeest everywhere

And so were the vultures and other scavanger-ing type birds

We got bogged

Proof I was really there

It was so special to see this young elephant stop with his mum for a drink

More hippos

Warthogs on the run

If you look closely, you will see four baby cheetah cubs with their mum in this shot.  This was the highlight of my safari - so priviledged!!!

Kenya - Maasi Mara 1 (Aug '12)

Welcome to Maasi Mara

It's a bit difficult to see, but the first thing we saw was a herd of tourist vans.  The further into the park you go the fewer vans you see.

There were zebras everywhere

Can you spot the baby?

A pretty bird

We visited just on the time of the wilderbeest migration.  There were literally hundreds of thousands of them.  And wherever there were wilderbeest, there were zebras.

Up close and ugly

These guys were taking a siesta after a big feed

A lion and his lady - they refused to show their faces

Migrating wilderbeest - I could not capture the length of the line