Safari in Kenya

You cannot say that you went to Kenya if you didn’t experience the safari. I had never been to any safari before this trip to Kenya, however, I must shout out loud that I enjoyed it so much. As I mentioned before that I am not a big fan of animals, however, you just have to try to see as many animals as you could while you are in Kenya. Sherri and I were not that lucky to see the migration of animals because of the wrong timing (normally takes place between July and October). Even so, we were lucky enough to observe quite a few wild animals through our safari trips in different National Parks.

We booked the safari trip when we got to Mombassa and decided to go for a 3 days safari trip to Tsavo National Park and Amboseli National Park. The first safari trip we went was Tsavo National Park. We spent a few days to Maasai Mara National Reserve for our second safari trip. We took the minibus/truck with life-up roofs/windows for looking for and observing any wild animals, and of course, we could take pictures. It was a quite new, interesting and exciting experience to take the minibus around the huge national parks and try to see where the animals are hiding. The conditions of roads toward and in the National Parks are terribly bad and which made the trip more like adventure to some extent. Even the driver had been very careful driven all the time, however, the bumpy roads made the safari trip just like taking the rollercoaster. Sometimes, the minibuses/truck would stick in the middle of the road for bad weather condition caused the road so madly and easy to get into extreme difficult situation. However, stuck in the middle of way and bumpy roads are parts of safari experiences and they made the safari even more real and fun.

Through the two safari trip experiences, we did see lots of known and unknown wild animals. Zebras, giraffes, impalas, gazelles, monkeys and all kinds of birds were not so attractive anymore after the first day of safari. We wanted to see lions, elephants, hippos and so forth. I believed that we were really luck that we did see African buffalos, lions, elephants and hippos through our rest of first safari trip. We saw hundreds of elephants walking and eating on the field and the elephants even know how to cross the road. We were lucky to see lions when our first safari trip was almost ended. We saw about six female lions were about to hunt for food by sunset time that day. The female lions were approaching to a group of impalas and zebras and waiting for the appropriate timing to eat them up. (It was a huge pity that we didn’t get the chance to see the killing—I really wanted to have a look even I was quite scared anyhow).

Most lions we saw were sleeping all the time, they seemed to be so lazy and always found them hid under the trees to escape from the hot day. I wonder how lions are called king of animals if they spend most of time sleep…

By the way, we saw two different kinds of giraffes in Kenya. One kind is light brown giraffe and the other kind is dark giraffe, so called Maasai giraffe (please take look at photos attached). Moreover, I noticed that zebras’ legs are quite short:P but they are really cute! And elephants are not grey, they are black—this shock me a bit for I thought that elephants are grey :P

I am happy that I went to Kenya and see all these wild animals with my own eyes. There are still some animals I didn’t get a chance to see while I was there, such as rhinoceros, cheetahs, leopards and some others. Maybe I should visit Kenya or the other African countries sometime later to see all those wild animals. So, friends, fancy of a safari trip?

Let’s go sometime later then!! :D