Safari Day!

Editor’s note: Our Saturday was a full driving day to our tented camp beside the Maasai Mara national park. Here is the blog for Sunday!

Heya – welcome back! It’s your girl Claire Mac joined by your boy Nikky. We woke up in our warm double beds after a long day of driving, arriving to the Maasai Mara. I woke up to freezing cold air and didn’t want to leave bed at 6:45 am which was when breakfast started. Meanwhile Nik woke up “toasty warm” fully dressed, ready to take on the day. We ate a breakfast, surprisingly including maple syrup! We proceeded to our two different safari vans where the roofs popped up which allowed us to stand up and get a better view of the animals. We entered the giant national park and commenced on our 8 hour journey. We arrived during the wildebeest migration and they are scary on their own, but altogether they are even more terrifying! We were able to see monkeys, zebras, cheetahs, elephants, warthogs, LIONS, gazelles, antelopes, rhinos, crocodiles and soooo many birds, too many dead animals. My personal favourite is the hippo and Nik’s favourite is the water buffalo. My van sang so many songs and made friends all over the savannah. And in Nik’s words, his van “shared their different views on the world and had a heart to heart”. We stopped for lunch, making sure that the elephants didn’t find us and luckily it consisted of NO POTATOS! We stopped at the fanciest hotel in the Maasai Mara for a washroom break and headed back to our tented rooms. We ate dinner and now we are writing this in the main building with bats and hot chocolate – going to crawl into bed shortly. So friends – our day!

Have a good one – signing out! Claire and Nik