African Safari!!

Last weekend the exchange students all went on an African Safari. We left early Friday morning and then drove for about 6 hours to Masai Mara, which is a really big game reserve. The ride was by no means smooth. First we were on paved roads that were ok with a few bumps here and there. Then they turned into paved roads with massive pot holes all over the place. We spent most of the time driving with one side of the wheels on the road and the other in the ditch trying to avoid the pot holes. I think that was an impossible task though. We still hit many of them. Then we had to start not only dodging pot holes, but cattle in the road. I was amazed we never hit one. The driver did not slow down as quickly as I would have, so we came close a few time! Then the roads were no longer paved and really bumpy all the time, basically it felt like we weren't even on a road anymore.
We stayed at a really nice resort with tent cabins and a VERY delicious buffet.
We saw every kind of African animal that I can think of except a hyena. We saw lions, cheetah, zebra, giraffe, buffalo (the African kind not like in the US), hippos, elephants, some birds of some kind, gazelle, antelope of various sizes, a baboon, wilder-beast, and monkeys. The van that we drove to the place in was what we saw the animals from. The roof pops up and we just stood up and looked out. We got pretty close to most of the animals. It was great! Here are some photos.

  We saw the big males too, but these were cuter

Wilder-beast in the waning evening light.

The wilder-beast were migrating so there were a lot of them. We were helping them move along a little faster.

It was a very good weekend, as long as you don't get motion sick...thankfully none of us did.