It's my birthday! And we were woken up by the sound of hippos - I had a look out of the tent and could see a couple wallowing in the water. We didn't have any electricity first thing so I opened my cards by torchlight!
After breakfast we had a 4 hour game drive - it was quite chilly first thing so we were wrapped up in our fleeces and had our trousers on.
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| We're ready for my birthday safari! |
As soon as we drove out of the camp we were met by wildebeest and zebra as far as the eye could see. I was really hoping to see a lion with a mane on my birthday but we didn't see one.......we saw 3 altogether!!!!! First of all they were all asleep under a tree but we waited, along with about 6 other vans, and we got some great photos - with one of the lions walking right passed us - he was so close you could have touched him (if you wanted your arm chewed off!).
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| There were loads of wildebeest & zebra in the Masai Mara |
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| We waited a while and eventually they started to wake up! |
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| 'I am sure all these people weren't here when I went to sleep' |
As we drove around we suddenly started hearing a hissing noise, and it turned out we had a flat tyre......right near some more sleeping lions! Luckily we had a couple of vans nearby who parked up between us and the lions so that, if they did wake up, they wouldn't spot Ahmed out of his van changing the tyre and come and eat him.
We saw a herd of elephants crossing a river, including some tiny babies, a hyena having a bath in a puddle, a group of giraffe with a baby, and the 3 lions from earlier also made another appearance, asleep again to begin with - when they woke up they must have thought not them again! Later in the day we relaxed on our balcony overlooking the Hippo filled river - it was nice to have some down time.
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| Elephant crossing the river |
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| Hyena cooling itself in a puddle - a rare sight during the day |
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| Return of the sleeping lions! |
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| Baby giraffe - so sweet! |
During dinner some Masai Warriors came in and were dancing around all the tables, and doing the jumping thing that they do - it was amazing to see. I took some video but, because the dining room is quite dark, it didn't come out very well!
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| Dancing Masai warriors! |
It was our last dinner together with our fellow travellers, and we had drinks together in the lounge afterwards all saying what a good trip it had been, although we all agreed it had been pretty full on but we did see a lot during that time.
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