I spent three days on safari at Masai Mara with trainees. There are totally 8 of us with another guy from Thailand, who is working at Thai embassy now. The hard sell is always the problem at hot spots (they charged us 100 NT for 1liter water), so I bought 3 liter (56 NT at supermarket) water before we set off. Rip-off souvenirs sellers are always there, who can charge customers 10 times expensive than the normal price.
It was almost 5 hours from Nairobi to Masai Mara. Masai Mara is in western Kenya. It’s not the biggest national reserve in Kenya but it’s one of the best. The wildlife there is amazing!! Masai Mara national reserve, 1510 square km of rolling grasslands, where Cactuses and sausage trees can be seen very easily, is watered by Mara River. Sausage trees are the material which the Masai (one Kenyan tribe with very rich culture) use to make wine. According to the Masai, 2 glasses of that wine can make you drunk (just like Taiwanese rice wine).If the elephants or other animals have the fruit of assuage trees, they will stay awake for two days.
Animals:
Gazelles, wildebeests, and zebras are the most prevalent. I saw big amounts of them. I even saw the wildebeests migrating. They are just on the rive bank, waiting for others to cross the river. What a shame we didn’t see them cross river. We also saw cheetahs hunting gazelles. It’s a cheetah family with three cheetah babies. Cheetah mother and father took the action and their childs sat there watching and learning. Elephants, baboons, ostriches and giraffes are also very common.
We saw two giraffes fighting in the early morning. They push each other with their butts and horns. It’s really funny!! We also saw two ostriches fighting, just as the same we saw on TV program. We saw the lions family having their breakfast—zebra. So sad that we didn’t see they take zebra down. But we were lucky enough to see cheetahs and lions so closely, without columns between us and animals. We saw the body of a wildebeest. The eaters did a good job!!! At national reserve, unlike the zoo, u will never know which animals u will see at the next moment. As a visitor, we have to keep our eyes widely open and the creator of the nature will arrange the best program for us. At the zoo, people control the animals and animals get sick very easily. Everything is so artificial. But at national park, we can feel the nature and sublime of it. We can see the real life of animals. That’s really lovely, isn’t it.
When we were having lunch, vervet monkeys showed up to be our lunch guests. Compared with the monkeys in Taiwan, vervet monkeys are gentler.
Lodge and our night life:
We stayed at a nice lodge, where provided us nice mattress, tents, pillows, and even electricity. We had simple but nice food and I was always satisfied after the meal. The first night we played “asshole” game together. And the second night, we went to the local pub. We had beer and danced with African music. I will never forget the ‘pee spot’ of the bar. 6 girls of us wanted to pee so the woman of the bar showed us the way. We walked outside the bar and she pointed to the ground ‘This is where the toilet is.’ 6 girls took of jeans, facing each other, and peed on the grassland. Ha-ha, this is cool, isn’t it.
Maasai:
The Maasai is an interesting tribe with rich cultures. They usually wear red blanket (shuka) and accessories like vast plate-like bead necklaces, and walked with sticks or gourd. They have big ear holes. They have their own language and dancing, so not too many Maasai people know English. They are really proud of themselves. The biggest tribe in Kenya is kikuyu, which made up 20% of Kenyan population. They have no culture at all. A Kenyan girl thought there’s no culture in Kenya at all. Kenya is just like a copy cat, trying to imitating the West. She feels sad about this.
It was almost 5 hours from Nairobi to Masai Mara. Masai Mara is in western Kenya. It’s not the biggest national reserve in Kenya but it’s one of the best. The wildlife there is amazing!! Masai Mara national reserve, 1510 square km of rolling grasslands, where Cactuses and sausage trees can be seen very easily, is watered by Mara River. Sausage trees are the material which the Masai (one Kenyan tribe with very rich culture) use to make wine. According to the Masai, 2 glasses of that wine can make you drunk (just like Taiwanese rice wine).If the elephants or other animals have the fruit of assuage trees, they will stay awake for two days.
Animals:
Gazelles, wildebeests, and zebras are the most prevalent. I saw big amounts of them. I even saw the wildebeests migrating. They are just on the rive bank, waiting for others to cross the river. What a shame we didn’t see them cross river. We also saw cheetahs hunting gazelles. It’s a cheetah family with three cheetah babies. Cheetah mother and father took the action and their childs sat there watching and learning. Elephants, baboons, ostriches and giraffes are also very common.
We saw two giraffes fighting in the early morning. They push each other with their butts and horns. It’s really funny!! We also saw two ostriches fighting, just as the same we saw on TV program. We saw the lions family having their breakfast—zebra. So sad that we didn’t see they take zebra down. But we were lucky enough to see cheetahs and lions so closely, without columns between us and animals. We saw the body of a wildebeest. The eaters did a good job!!! At national reserve, unlike the zoo, u will never know which animals u will see at the next moment. As a visitor, we have to keep our eyes widely open and the creator of the nature will arrange the best program for us. At the zoo, people control the animals and animals get sick very easily. Everything is so artificial. But at national park, we can feel the nature and sublime of it. We can see the real life of animals. That’s really lovely, isn’t it.
When we were having lunch, vervet monkeys showed up to be our lunch guests. Compared with the monkeys in Taiwan, vervet monkeys are gentler.
Lodge and our night life:
We stayed at a nice lodge, where provided us nice mattress, tents, pillows, and even electricity. We had simple but nice food and I was always satisfied after the meal. The first night we played “asshole” game together. And the second night, we went to the local pub. We had beer and danced with African music. I will never forget the ‘pee spot’ of the bar. 6 girls of us wanted to pee so the woman of the bar showed us the way. We walked outside the bar and she pointed to the ground ‘This is where the toilet is.’ 6 girls took of jeans, facing each other, and peed on the grassland. Ha-ha, this is cool, isn’t it.
Maasai:
The Maasai is an interesting tribe with rich cultures. They usually wear red blanket (shuka) and accessories like vast plate-like bead necklaces, and walked with sticks or gourd. They have big ear holes. They have their own language and dancing, so not too many Maasai people know English. They are really proud of themselves. The biggest tribe in Kenya is kikuyu, which made up 20% of Kenyan population. They have no culture at all. A Kenyan girl thought there’s no culture in Kenya at all. Kenya is just like a copy cat, trying to imitating the West. She feels sad about this.
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