#MYMASAIMARAADVENTURE
This is the first official full day that I have spent at Mpata Safari Club. The arrival day was amazing as is and I enjoyed every bit. If you haven’t read it, then do so Right Here. So my first day involved a game drive at the Trans Mara region, which was just breath-taking in its own way and I will not forget it in the next coming years unless I create new memories of its own.
So I woke up at 4am Wednesday 2015, and this has become a norm and this is because of brain conditioning that has been very persistent due to the constant waking up of my 2015 summer semester. So I woke up to a knock on my door and Momanyi, my driver for the day was there asking me to meet him at the library section of the hotel. There I met the Japanese elderly couple and family that were also staying at Mpata Safari Club. At the library I found a pot of tea and freshly made cookies and marble cake that was meant to be our wake up snack.
Momanyi told us that we were meant to be at the Masai Mara National Park by 6:30am, when the Olololoo Gate opens. So I wrapped myself in my Masai shuka and hoped into my day’s chariot and was joined by Noroku and her Japanese friend. Noroku is guest relations manager at Mpata Safari Club; she is Japanese but speaks and understands Swahili like it was her mother tongue. She has been in the country for 15 years and hence the familiarity to the language. I later learnt that she prefers Swahili to English.
As we waited for Momanyi to provide our details to the game park security, the early morning sun was rising and making its debut in the Masai Mara. Again I felt so lucky I got to see it set and now I see it rise. So we drove into the vast plains and a few kilometres into the drive the first groups of animals we saw were herds of elephants grazing. Then there was the conspicuous waterbuck that were so close and seemed to stare at us questioning our existence. That feeling you get when what you watch on National Geographic is right in front of you.
Then the hot air balloons that floated around the dawn skies, one literally flew above us and the group of tourists waved at us and we at them, it was like a sign of acknowledgement. Then the walky talky that is a very important mode of communication came on the voice of another tour guide asked Momanyi whether he had spotted ‘kichwa’ . Then Noroku muttered something in Japanese and then we drove for a bit, then Momanyi muttered something and then we were speeding off. (The tour guides have a coded language that only they know.)
Then there were the animals that were unique and aroused a lot of special attention like the Bat eared fox and some red head bird, that I didn’t quite catch the name. It was more than an amazing site and the amount of activity that was going on in the wild was just amazing.
One thing I discovered was when someone spots something all the tour guides concentrate and race to find the best spot for the group of tourists. This left a lot of clouds of dusts and the running wild of the animals that were not as popular among the tourists
I was lucky enough to watch the yearly migration of the Waterbucks from Tanzania into Kenya. I also got the chance to have tea in the bush, well some people took the adventure too far by peeing in the bush but i wont judge (YOLO or You Only Do it Once) It was an amazing and breath-taking spectacle. I will let the images speak for the event.
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The nest post will be a slideshow of all the images i took. Some of them might not be the best but either way i would want to share with you all what i have and the world through my eyes.
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