Author: mickimodell
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Our final day at the Maasai Mara
Our final day in the Mara came very quickly. As usual, we started it with a morning game drive. A gorgeous sunrise, a jackal, some Cape Buffalo, and a herd of female elephants with their babies greeted us. After breakfast, we found the cutest hyenas I’ve ever seen. Baby hyenas might be the cutest animal…
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Day 3 at the Maasai Mara Concervancy
Each day in the Mara began with our early morning game drive and breakfast out on the savanna. This morning was as beautiful as always. We saw the male lion, Supat, patrolling his territory as well as some giraffes & hartebeest before our breakfast. On our ay the visit a Maasai village, we drove through…
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Now for a recap of our second day at the Maasai Mara Concervancy!
Yes, it is hard to top seeing a cheetah stretch and a lion roar. I do have to say that adding breakfast out on the open savanna while watching a wildebeest herd play and Maasai cattle pass by definitely was a good follow-up. We woke up at 5:40 to coffee & hot cocoa being brought…
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Maasai Mara Conservancy Did Not Disappoint! And We are Only on Our Second Day!
After lots of traffic while driving up and over the pass that led us into the Great Rift Valley (We got to see & drive through the Great Rift Valley!), we made the long journey to the Maasai Mara Conservancy. We couldn’t even drive the four-wheel-drive van that had done great for us at Ol…
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Elephants, Giraffes, & Beads
Yesterday we left Ol Pejeta & headed back to Nairobi. We stopped by the equator, which we had ben going back and forth across for the past few days. I realized that this was the first time I had been south of the equator! Today we started by going to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. They…
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Ol Pejeta!
Not only did we see so many amazing animals in Ol Pejeta, but we learned about all their outreach & conservation that they do there. Amazingly, the Savannah reminded me so much of eastern Montana. When we were speaking with a man who works with the last of the Northern White Rhinos, he mentioned having…
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Wow! What amazing animals!
So, I’ve been a bit busy looking at animals and learning about Ol Pejeta Conservancy. When we arrived at Ol Pejeta from Nairobi , I was hoping to see a few of the animals I had been reading about since I was a kid. Ol Pejeta did not disappoint! We were staying at a tented…
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We made it to Nairobi!
About 27 hours after leaving the Salmon Beach parking lot, we arrived at our hotel in Nairobi. Both British Airways flights went well. With a Guinness at Heathrow between them. While our arrival was not necessarily uneventful, we made it & had a wonderful South African Cab-Merlot blend before collapsing in our hotel beds!
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Getting ready to go!
Murphy has brought Snowdrop (the black & white dog) on many adventures in many different countries. I think the distance of our travel and the attachment to this stuffed dog have made Murphy worry about losing her. So, today, the day before we head out, I spent some time adding an information tag to Snowdrop…
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A Final Visit to the Beach & a Beautiful Lunch
On our last day before heading to the airport, for our redeye flight, we spent some time at the beach near our hotel & then found a nice little spot with a view to have lunch.
So Much Adventuring 