7/6
Bad night sleep. Sloping bed. Going to get a new room today. Slept in and getting out late, 9 AM start.
The game drive started out slow, with some viewing of elephants through a fence, but then we got rolling. We had a nice close-up with a family of elephants walking by; another close encounter with an elephant family munching away in a marsh; and a final close encounter with a giant bull elephant who charged the van because he thought we were blocking his path. Wow!
We also had an amazing view of a pair of young lions basking in the morning sun. They then each got up and walked past the car. Cool!
While playing ping-pong at a rest stop at a resort, I had a zebra to the left of my opponent, Benji, and elephants to the right. Today we saw flamingos, hyenas up close, ostriches, hippos, wildebeests up close, and lots of birds.
At lunch Marina was a celebrity with all the school kids visiting the same viewpoint. They touched her hair, taught her to count in Swahili and gave her a big hugs goodbye. Marina loved the experience. We also saw jackals today – little cute wild dogs, warthogs and of course, the most prevalent animal in Amboseli– the zebras.
Here in the Amboseli national park you see the vast flat plains with a variety of animals intermixed. It’s hard to capture in a picture but the variety of animals in one setting is mind-boggling. It feels so Africa to look out and see pink flamingos in the water, a line of elephants and a group of zebras intermixed with wildebeests all sharing the savannah.
The game drive started out slow, with some viewing of elephants through a fence, but then we got rolling. We had a nice close-up with a family of elephants walking by; another close encounter with an elephant family munching away in a marsh; and a final close encounter with a giant bull elephant who charged the van because he thought we were blocking his path. Wow!We also had an amazing view of a pair of young lions basking in the morning sun. They then each got up and walked past the car. Cool!
While playing ping-pong at a rest stop at a resort, I had a zebra to the left of my opponent, Benji, and elephants to the right. Today we saw flamingos, hyenas up close, ostriches, hippos, wildebeests up close, and lots of birds.
At lunch Marina was a celebrity with all the school kids visiting the same viewpoint. They touched her hair, taught her to count in Swahili and gave her a big hugs goodbye. Marina loved the experience. We also saw jackals today – little cute wild dogs, warthogs and of course, the most prevalent animal in Amboseli– the zebras.
Here in the Amboseli national park you see the vast flat plains with a variety of animals intermixed. It’s hard to capture in a picture but the variety of animals in one setting is mind-boggling. It feels so Africa to look out and see pink flamingos in the water, a line of elephants and a group of zebras intermixed with wildebeests all sharing the savannah.
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