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Maasai Mara in October

If you’re thinking of going on Safari, consider visiting the Maasai Mara in October. We travelled to Kenya on our Honeymoon and discovered a country full of surprises. It was also quite humbling. I can remember the airport transfer to our first overnight stop in Nairobi, the earthy fragrance that is uniquely African, the heat… and us Brits moaning about the rain back home. The minute the words left my mouth I regretted it. Actually, just before they left my mouth when the words are on their way but you can no longer reel them back in. Our driver politely reminded us that rain is somewhat sparse in Africa and people depend on it for survival. We never forgot that for the whole trip.

Our arrival at the river’s edge was the most thrilling of the whole trip. Our guide had spotted Wildebeest on the plane and we had cautiously parked up so we could watch them drift across the plains. Suddenly the walkie-talkie crackled into life and our guide floored the Jeep. Hanging on to the guard rails in the Jeep we didn’t quite know what was going on. Is this guy hungry? are we heading back for an early lunch? None of those things. We soon realised he’d been told the Wildebeest were on the move across the river. At the start, he mentioned we may witness it, but we didn’t expect to actually see it so soon. The above footage was taken pre-iPhone so isn’t the best. But to be honest, we wanted to just watch this amazing event first hand and not see it through a view finder for too long.  We saw Crocs the size of cars come up out of the water and take the weaker of the herd. Very sad to watch, but we were observing the circle of life.

After our first week, we needed to rest so now looked forward to finishing off our trip at Kiwayu Safari Village. We will write about that in our next post!

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