7/5
I woke up and raced off to Lake Nakuru. There were lots of baboons in the trees. We saw pink flamingos off in the distance, but due to a downed tree, we couldn’t go see them. Perhaps our driver snuck out in the middle the night and cut the tree down so that he wouldn’t have to take us to see them. But, he did drive like a maniac to help us see a lion sleeping in the grass. He used the van to wake up the drowsy lion so that we would get good photos. I feel guilty about it, but also took great pictures. We also saw two rhinos. We were told that they are the rare white rhinos.
Then, once we exited the park, about two hours later, we spent 10 hours driving south. At one point our driver pulled over and told us that we were switching vans. Then we suddenly had a new driver. I think he recognized that our trust in him had eroded.
We arrived at Amboseli National Park at 7:30 PM in the dark. Dinner, showers, cards.
In retrospect, I would have loved to spend another day in the magnificent Masai Mara National Park. Driving up to Nakuru only to drive down south to Amboseli was an enormous waste of time spent in a car so that we could see a few a couple of rhinos off in the distance.
I woke up and raced off to Lake Nakuru. There were lots of baboons in the trees. We saw pink flamingos off in the distance, but due to a downed tree, we couldn’t go see them. Perhaps our driver snuck out in the middle the night and cut the tree down so that he wouldn’t have to take us to see them. But, he did drive like a maniac to help us see a lion sleeping in the grass. He used the van to wake up the drowsy lion so that we would get good photos. I feel guilty about it, but also took great pictures. We also saw two rhinos. We were told that they are the rare white rhinos.
Then, once we exited the park, about two hours later, we spent 10 hours driving south. At one point our driver pulled over and told us that we were switching vans. Then we suddenly had a new driver. I think he recognized that our trust in him had eroded.We arrived at Amboseli National Park at 7:30 PM in the dark. Dinner, showers, cards.
In retrospect, I would have loved to spend another day in the magnificent Masai Mara National Park. Driving up to Nakuru only to drive down south to Amboseli was an enormous waste of time spent in a car so that we could see a few a couple of rhinos off in the distance.
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