Wonders Of The Masai Mara Game Park. A Safari Within The Mara Is An Escapade To The Finest Wildlife Park.

 

Undoubtedly the Mara is the best savanna of Africa Safari. A bird's eye view of the action below stirs my anticipation.

Within moments of flying into the Mara, we spot an elephant and giraffes below, and on the banks of the Talek River, a pair of hippos somewhat revealed from the water.

It's end of June, just after the long rains and the season prior to great migration and the savanah is rich in tall golden green grass of different patterns.

As we drive through, we encounter many Thomson's gazelles browsing by the road.

Farther, a mother cheetah with a rounded belly stares our way as it eats the remains of an antelope. Meanwhile the cub is still enjoying the meal, its nose red with blood.

"Cheetahs are diurnal. They hunt at daytime," explains the guide. "They are not as powerful as lions and leopards, therefore they eat fast or else their meal will be taken. They can even be driven away by packs hyenas or vultures."

Seven minutes away, we come across another cheetah with her two cubs on an anthill. They view us warily but the mother's ears pick the sound of the cowbells and she sits up attentive, studying the plains. The flock of Masai cows is way in the distant and not sensing any danger to her cubs, she slouches down again, peaceful.

The long rains have ended and the plains are full of vegetation making it arduous for the smaller species to graze. Mostly it is the large animals like giraffes and elephants and the bigger antelopes that can be easily seen around.

This makes hunting hard for the cats and they wind up with strange strategies. It is not rare to see lions and cheetahs trying to climb trees and anthills to get a high vantage place for searching for prey.

Cheetahs claws cannot retract like those of the other cats and do not mostly climb trees, but because they have to locate prey, they'll try anything.

Cheetahs, unlike other predators, are weak so they hunt smaller-sized antelopes, by scurrying them to exhaustion as they go for the jugular vein of their prey to make an immediate kill.

moments after our sighting of the second cheetah, we locate another cheetah Mother (Shakira).

"Shakira had five cubs however two were killed," the guide quips. "Cheetah mothers typically keep shifting when they have cubs to evade lions and leopards killing their cubs."

Further on a pride of twelve lions emerges composed of a male, females and cubs. The male roars, the roar echoing across the plains, as it rolls over on its rear. The females stand up ready to roam the plains.

"This is my best time in the Masai Mara," says the guide, "because there is less traffic and makes it easy to spot wildlife."

In another full week it will be July, and the plains will begin to fill with wildebeests as they come from the Serengeti.

There will be a million plus wildebeests passing the Sand River and going to the far end of the Mara before turning to make the cyclic exploration. By the end of November, the grass will be eaten by the wildebeests and some 400000 zebras and other animals.

In one afternoon, on a radius of 10 km, we have discovered abundant animals. What a way to begin our Masai Mara safari.

The following morning, as the sun goes up in the horizon, the plains seem calmer. This morning we venture out looking for the big five.

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