From the Masai Mara to Mt. Kenya Safari Club

After our downtime, we piled into our vehicle for one final game drive in the Masai Mara. We were on a mission to see rhinos, since we had only seen them from a distance at this point and wanted to try to get some better shots of them. We headed out to the places where the rhinos are normally found, but didn't see any. We did see a giraffe that was about two or three days old, though. Dennis, our guide, said that he was able to see the umbilical cord drying up. I couldn't see it, but the giraffe was tiny!


The driver then heard something over the radio, and we took off like a bat out of hell. This was down really bad roads, and we were bumping all over the place! Eventually we saw what we were looking for: a solitary black rhino. We also saw a lilac-crested roller, which was really pretty.





Further ahead, we saw another rhino, so we got closer to it, and low and behold, that rhino had a baby with it!!!


We watched them for awhile, and then headed off towards the Mara River, where the Micato staff had set up a cocktail party for us as the sun set.





In the water were hippos! And before too long a fight had broken out between two of them!





Eventually it got dark and we headed back to the camp, but not before we had "spotted" one last leopard!


We got back to camp, had dinner, and went to bed. The next morning we got up, packed, had breakfast, and then caught our flight to the Mt. Kenya Safari Club. We got there just in time for lunch, so we checked in, had lunch, and then the rest of the day was at our leisure. The Safari Club is just a really nice hotel, but what's neat about it, is that the hotel is cut in half by the Equator! Our room is in the Southern hemisphere, and the dining room is in the Northern hemisphere! At any rate, we enjoyed an afternoon lounging about (it rained), and were just happy that we weren't jostling around in the back if a safari vehicle! Eventually we had a lovely dinner and called it a night. The next morning, we were up for breakfast at 7. I wasn't feeling 100% and was still tired, so I didn't end up going, but mom went on the horseback ride to a champagne breakfast in the bush. They had two armed guards escort them just in case they ran into trouble! When the got back, I joined them for a trip to a chimpanzee orphanage where they have over 40 orphaned chimps, but we only got to see 3 or 4 of them (the others were shy!). We then came back to the Safari Club and had the rest of the day to enjoy the hotel. We had lunch, lounged around all day (Mom had a pedicure), and then had dinner. Now we are getting ready for bed because we have to be up and packed tomorrow to head back to Nairobi. We will be sad to leave this place, because it is very nice and is a great place to relax after being on safari for two weeks!

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Location:Kenya