Samburu to Maasai Mara

Samburu to Maasai Mara

After a lovely dinner which featured local beef and wild boar sausage BBQ, we go back to our huge tent. We have another wildlife surprise: a small frog is in the toilet. Luckily, Barney saw the frog before I did, and the little guy went back where he came from. All night the wind blew strongly, so the tent flaps were fairly loud. The tent is quite luxurious in size, Barney paced it off at about 18’x27’ plus a very generously sized bathroom with a walk-in shower.

We had to wake up early - 5:00am – to leave at 6:30am for the airport and our flight to the Maasai Mara. We pass by the village we visited yesterday, en route to the red-earthed airstrip at Kalama. The thatched-roof and stone shelter at the airstrip was built in 2014 by the Samburu County Tourism bureau, as was the pit toilet. Since it is so early, 7:45M, it is still cool. Our plane arrives, a Twin Otter, so we’re all on the same plane for only the second time on this trip. We have a 1 hour 45 minute trip, and below we see the mountains we travelled near the past few days.  We also flew over the Great Rift Valley, green with agricultural development.

We land at the Mara triangle airstrip, and at the edge of the red dirt runway, we see the paw prints of a lion. We load up with the same guides we had in Amboseli, and go to the Serena Maasai Mara Lodge to drop our stuff.


Cheers, Theresa Nelson