Kenya Masaimara Day 2
KENYA MASAIMARA DAY 2
After some good rest, we had breakfast at the hotel and left for a full day game drive. Our driver Joseph is a free Lancer. He seemed to know about birds and animals. He seemed the right and best guide we could have. Our tour was booked with bonfire tours. The vehicles had a walkie talkie system, so as soon as one of the drivers spot some animal or an event, it is informed to other drivers. This way everyone gets a chance to see many rare sights.
Our driver had arranged for picnic lunch for us and so the hotel had packed lunch boxes for us to carry. It had yoghurt, fruit juice, fruits, pastries, tea cakes.
The hotel is in the middle of the national park and you can see the park from the room balconies.
Also Rock hyrax and baboons were seen everywhere outside the rooms.
As we started our second day game drive, we saw many birds , to name a few :
Crown Crane
Ring Headed Clover
Egyptian Geese
Starling
Ground Hornbill
Eurasian Roller
Pupette
Black Belly Busterd
Hammercock
Secretary
Gini Fowl
Lilac Breasted roller
Leopard face vulture
We also noticed many animals- Tope, Antelope, giraffes,Thompson Gazelle , Elephants.Zebras, Wild beast, mongoose,
We then drove to the Masa River. There we saw many birds, Crocodiles, Hippopotamus on the river bank. After a long photoshoot , we left and reached a place where there was 1 lion and 2 lionesses .Here again, we spent more than 1 hour recording videos.
After this as we were riding further, we saw many many wild beasts , giraffes, Topes , gazelles..
Then we were lucky to see a very rare action sequence.
We happened to see 3 cheetahs walking on the grasses. Suddenly as we were about to leave the spot, we saw them chase a small gazelle and also kill it .They were feeding on the gazelle, taking turns and we were there seeing them with awe. We spent another hour recording video and also watching the scene in real.
Then later we stopped our vehicle nearby and ate our packed picnic lunch.
As we were returning back, we saw many vultures, eagles at the kill spot trying to eat the remains of the gazelle.We also spotted the leopards resting behind long grass .
Then as we were finishing our game drive and were driving towards the hotel.We saw another chase by a lioness.
Initially we didn't see the lioness as it was behind a rock, but we few gazelles, looking at a direction with full attention hinted there was some danger there.As we waited , we saw a lioness slowly walking with the intention of catching a prey.As all the gazelles already had run, it had it's eyes on the wildbeast and warthog far away and kept walking towards our jeep to cross the road.But then all the animals ran away, so the lioness also walked away.
We reached the hotel a little early by 5 pm We relaxed, watched few animals from the balcony.Then we went to the restaurant to have dinner.There was a movie screening about Masai Mara.We watched it for 10 minutes and left to the room.
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