Masai Mara is a game reserve, similar to our national parks, where nature does its thang un-interrupted by people. We we were all excited about what we might see once we entered the park, and shortly after going through the gate we were greeted by a simba (lion)! It was just sitting on the side of the road, so beautiful and still the scene looked like a painting.
There was about a 30km ride from the gate to our resort, along the way we saw giraffe's, huge buffalo, zebra's, and beautiful gazelle's- I took many pictures can't wait to share with you.
We arrived at the resort Keekorok Lodge (nice), were greeted by our hosts with warm cloths to clean our hands, and fruit juice. We dropped our bags at the room, then were off to lunch, and out first Safari!
In addition to the animals listed above we saw Cheetah's (from a distance), elephants, and wildebeast. The highlight of the evening came as the sun was going down. There was a pack of zebra's grazing and moving accross the plains. The trail we were on was going to take us right next to them, I took out my camera to get good snapshots, but we zoomed right by them......about 50 yards away there was a small pride of 3 lions and 3 baby cubs. We parked to get a good look at the pride. As the zebra's continued to graze the lions began watching them (the zebra's had no clue). As the cubs played around the lions spread out and staked out the zebra's who were slowing moving closer. Then one of the zebra's started moving quickly towards the lions, we believe it was trying to get to a river, as soon as it got close enough the 3 lions charged from their posts! the zebra took off back toward the pack and the others ran also. The lions were not able to catch the prey! actually the lions gave up the chase pretty quickly. I wonder what the cubs had for supper that night-lol?
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