On our way Emirates A380 BKK - DXB + A340 DXB - NBO
Nice bar on the A380
Welcome to the Giraffe Manor by the Giraffes!
Giraffe Manor with Christa.
Giraffe Manor
Giraffe Manor
Giraffe Manor - outside the dining room of the Garden Manor.
Giraffe Manor - the only meal that we really enjoyed at the manor.
Our adopted baby elephant "Naipoki" at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Our adopted blind black rhinoceros "Maxwell" at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Giraffe Manor - Dang showing a visiting giraffe to Mony with her Ipad 2 facetime. Location = Garden Manor dining room.
Giraffe Manor
Giraffe Manor - baby Giraffe 3 weeks old - as of August 1, 2011.
Giraffe Manor - baby Giraffe 3 weeks old - as of August 1, 2011.
Dinner in the dining room of the Garden Manor.
Masai Mara at last!
Keekorok airstrip - our Air Kenya Dash 7 takes off after delivering us to the Masai Mara.
A local guide from another camp who kindly stayed with us until the driver from our camp arrive.
Park ranger.
The start of our game drive with Sala's Camp.
First sight of the magnificent mega herd of wildebeests and zebras totaling around 800,000 migrating animals around Sala's Camp.
Dang enjoying the sight and recording our first game drive experience.
Lions resting on our way to Sala's Camp. So much food around them!
Our fist lion encounter on our way to Sala's Camp.
The resting pair checking out the menu for lunch.
The king and queen of the Masai Mara.
What the lions are looking at.
More wildebeests as we get closer to camp.
The mega-herd of wildebeests and zeebras by our camp - WOW!
Sands River - Sala's Camp
Lunch at Sala's Camp
Resting outside our tent at Sala's.
A lioness hiding in the bushes and rocks on the riverbed of the Sand River.
She see something
Can't believe how close we are to the animals.
A leopard and he's running for his life!
The lioness chases.
The lioness chases.
The lioness chases.
The leopard climb up a tree to hide but the lioness circle below.
Perfect spot only 5 meters from the tree where the leopard is hiding.
The leopard moves around but the lioness would not leave.
The leopard jumping from one branch to another.
The leopard jumping from one branch to another.
The leopard jumping from one branch to another.
The leopard jumping from one branch to another.
The leopard jumping from one branch to another.
Relaxing at the end of our first day at Sala's Camp. Alex our driver in the back while Dang capture the moment with her video camera.
Beautiful sunset.
Dang with a lioness.
A sort of a crossing - the tiny Keekorok River.
A sort of a crossing - the tiny Keekorok River.
A mother cheetah killing a gazelles and letting her 6 cubs eat.
Cheetah's paparazzi!
"Notch" the lion king of the Masai Mara and the main star of the BBC's Big Cat Diary.
"Notch" the lion king of the Masai Mara and the main star of the BBC's Big Cat Diary.
Crossing back into Kenya after taking a shortcut through Tanzania! Dang standing on the border demarkation post.
A black rhinoceros. Tried to get closer but the beast might charge at us!
More lions. We must have saw around 20 lions and lioness by Sala's Camp alone!
Relaxing after another beautiful day.
Dang leaving the vehicle, bad girl, to do her jumping in the middle of a big herd of wildebeests.
Sala's Camp last night relaxing before dinner.
Sala's Camp last dinner at the camp.
More wildebeests the next morning while on our way to the Mara Explorer.
Riding on the Mara Explorer Landrover.
The Mara Explorer - our tent no. 7.
The Mara Explorer - typical 4 course lunch at the camp!
The Mara Explorer - typical 4 course lunch at the camp!
The Mara Explorer - typical 4 course lunch at the camp!
The Mara Explorer - typical 4 course lunch at the camp!
First game drive at the Mara Explorer. At first we thought that this young lion was a lioness.
A pride of 3 lions and 1 lioness resting about a kilometer from where we spotted the young lion.
The lioness trying to seduce one of the lion.
But our man yawn instead!
The pride noticed the young lion approaching.
All the lions woke up and went on the offensive.
The pride noticed the young lion approaching.
All the lions woke up and went on the offensive.
All the lions woke up and went on the offensive.
The alpha male of the pride slowly approaches the intruding young lion.
wow - a stalking lion in real life!
The confrontation between the alpha male and the young lion.
The alpha strike out at the young lion who flee for his life while wetting himself!
Down the ravine goes the young lion.
The alpha male chases him!
After the fight the alpha male rest while the sunset behind him.
Dang pretending to be an Eagle!
Our first crossing event at the Mara River. Big Nile crocodiles sunning with the carcasses of their kills strewn every where.
A big Nile crocodile approaches a zebra.
The lead zebra being inspected by a croc.
Lunch for the croc!
Another croc goes after a young zebra.
Getting close!
and.. another zebra gone!
After the crossing was over a croc surfaces with the neck of the zebra firmly in his mouth.
A cheetah being harassed by a couple of hyenas.
The cheetah inspect a jeep from the Governor's camp before climbing on it for a brief ride.
The wildebeests making their way to the Talek River.
Olkiombo airstrip being invaded by armies of wildebeests.
Wildebeests contemplating whether to cross the Mara River or not. Every time they get to this point they see a croc and would run up the embankment again!
A black rhinoceros grazing on the plains.
Romeo the new leader of the "Marsh Pride".
A cute cub play with a lioness's tail.
Another beautiful sunset by the Mara Explorer.
The Mara Explorer's surprise "bush breakfast".
James our guide joining us for breakfast.
A major crossing by over 10,000 wildebeests and zebras on the Mara River. Too many cars and people around kicking up a lot of dusts.
These poor wildebeests could not get up the embankment on their usual route as tourists blocked them off!
A young wildebeest got spook by a croc and decide to swim back.
But the croc had other ideas and got him!
A croc lining himself up for the kill.
3 crocs can be seen in this photo and this poor airborne wildebeest has just been bitten!
Crocs everywhere!
On our way home and thank god that is not our plane!
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