Pictures from the Maasai Mara

Our time in the Maasai Mara was cut short somewhat because of our delays out of Entebbe... but we were still able to take in two fantastic game drives. Everyone - including Safari veterans Jon & Scott - came away with something they had never seen before.

We began the day leaving Nairobi at quarter-to-six in the morning. THe drive took us over the Rift Valley escarpment - a six-thousand foot drop from the escarpment to the valley floor. The elevation at the top is over nine thousand feet, and it was freezing cold.



From there we headed down the road to Narok, and on to the Mara. I have no pictures, because we were all hanging on for dear life. The road into the Mara is one of the worst I have ever seen a minivan traverse. The road was once paved, but has long since deteriorated to the point that the ditches are often smoother than the pavement. It's a long, seven-hour trek... but in the end the payoff is well worth the strenuous journey.













Not to say we didn't have a few adventures...



... but visiting the Maasai Mara was a memory of a lifetime.