I had such a great work out this morning! I ran for almost a complete hour and did weights and it was great. Cold or no cold I definitely needed to do some exercise! Yeah! J
The drive out to Amboseli National Park was only about
4h which was so nice compared to the long, painful drive from yesterday. I managed to sleep through a good half of the
drive, which also helps a lot! We passed
our first few signs regarding HIV/AIDS on the side of the road – which is the
first indication at all that there is a problem here. It is clearly a highly taboo subject…
At the park gates there were the typical people
selling stuff and I actually decided to buy a bowl. It is really nice and I got it at a great
price…the problem is that we wanted two of them because mom really likes it as
well and I only managed to get one because one of the other cars bought the
other one! It is a perfect salad/fruit
bowl and it kind of matches my three other little bowls that I bought near the
beginning of the trip. Good thing we’re
leaving soon…I am running out of room for stuff! I already have to deal with the giraffe!
We drove through the park to get to our hotel and
managed to see a few giraffes and a few elephants on our way through. It is great that our hotel is so close to the
park this time – it takes only 10 minutes to get to the park, which is a nice
change for sure.
After a great afternoon of lying in the sun by the
pool we went for an evening game drive – it was spectacular! Not 10 minutes after arriving in the park we
noticed tonnes of vans speeding by us…and when we arrived where they were all
parked we saw a cheetah running around scaring all the zebra, wildebeests, and
Thompson’s gazelles! It looked like he’d
already eaten, but there was a lot of dust and running before the cheetah
left. It was amazing to be able to see
that so close and take pictures!
Then, we kept driving and saw that way out in the
distance there were four lionesses meandering towards the watering hole! They slowly paced and scared off a couple of
wildebeest along the way and ended up crossing the road almost in front of
us! It was amazing. We were really hoping we would have the
chance to see them hunt and kill something, but this was spectacular none the
less!
Finally, just before the sun set we saw what this
park is known for: elephants! Hundreds
and hundreds of elephants! It was such a
stunning sight. There were so many huge
elephants and almost as many babies all leaving the swamp to head for
“home”. It was hard to capture it all on
camera because there were just so many.
I got a couple of great pictures of the elephants with Kilimanjaro as we
were lucky enough to have the clouds clear for sun set! It was perfect, really. We also saw a couple of bull elephants
arguing, which was pretty unique as well.
I don’t know how they are going to beat that tomorrow
because it seems like it was the perfect evening in terms of animals!
Night! -AJ
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