Safari

After a breathtaking Safari to Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru, I am back in Nairobi to continue my work. But of course I was acting like a Japanese and taking hundreds of pictures during the last 4 days. It might not be interesting to see the animal pictures for some of you, maybe you’d prefer people or buildings. But as soon as you have experienced a Safari by yourself, you’ll know the value of good shots and how hard it is to get them.

I was travelling with a French friend of my guesthouse (the blond one above me) and a nice group of Canadians we have met during the Safari. The first part of the Safari was at Maasai Mara, the most famous National Park of Kenya, just at the border to Tanzania and the Serengeti.

Kenya has around 42 different tribes, and one of them is the tribe of the maasai, a folk of nomads that are also famous for their warrior skills (and therefore often used as night guards in Nairobi). It is a very small tribe, but the fact that they live close and in the famous National Parks of Kenya (where most of the tourists go to) has made them internationally well-known.

Well but let me stop talking about people, on a Safari one wants to find animals and not human beings. Let me just show you some of the animals we’ve seen to give you an idea of the fauna diversity and the beautiful nature.

The animals you see most of the time are millions of Wildebeests (Weissbartgnus)…

…Tilapis (just fighting)…

… Thomson gazelles…

…or Zebras.

In case of their death vultures will do the cleaning job.

Quite rare are elephants…

…giraffes…

…monkeys…

…hippos…

…cheetahs (cute cub, isn’t it?)…

…or the king himself. (Most of the time he just lies around and let’s his wife hunt and work, as it should be *g*)

After all this impressions, we enjoyed the sunset...

…and played chess before sleeping in a tent full of mosquitoes. Fortunately we brought two mosquito nets with us and took Malaria prophylaxes just in case.

The second part of the Safari was Lake Nakuru. It is a small lake very famous for its diversity of birds. There are thousands of flamingos to observe that live along…

…with water bufallos (pelicans behind them)…

…or impressive rhinos.

Finally, I recommend everyone coming to Kenya or Africa in general, to do a Safari. It really is a great adventure and everything except the roads is amazing. I personally enjoyed these short Holidays a lot and could recover some energy to continue my work at school, which is not always that easy than it might have sounded in the former blog entries, for the school faces quite a lot of disturbing problems at the moment. But details will only be given orally back in Switzerland.