Zebras with the wildebeest - I guess wherever you find wildebeests, you find zebras. According to our guide, the wildebeests actually follow the zebras. In some places, you would see tons of zebras with the wildebeests, but mostly, it's maybe 100 or so peppered in amongst thousands of wildebeests.
This is the "sausage tree" - it's used by the Masai for it's medicinal properties to treat malaria and one other tropical disease. They also use the leaves to make their local alcohol. Mmmm....
More zebras - I took a ton of pictures of zebras. They are such crazy looking animals!
Gazelles - kind've boring looking, but pretty, nonetheless. Our guide call them "hart beests".
Isn't the landscape gorgeous??
We came upon these giraffes as sunset - the lighting was amazing. Also very cool looking animals. New fact learned: their saliva supposedly has healing, anti-microbial properties. So it's good I kissed one, right?
The wildebeests at sunset.
One of the lions we saw - we saw them multiple times. Usually we saw females, because they are the ones that do the hunting. Below are the lions stalking their prey - how they do it is a couple of them edge close to the prey and then lay down, acting totally nonchalant, like they don't care that they're only 5 feet away from food. Then the rest will slowly surround the animal and all of a sudden, they'll all attack at once. Our guide said "One buffalo, one lion, the buffalo wins. Two buffalo and the lions will never win." So they needed to separate these two, except they couldn't, so eventually they walked away. We never did see an actual kill, just a few immediately after.
A wildebeest - ugly creature, isn't it??
A Masai village - they put dung all the way around (so smelly!) to keep the lions away.
The great rift valley - this was right at the beginning of the drive. It extends from Israel all the way to Mozambique.
Zebras with the wildebeest - I guess wherever you find wildebeests, you find zebras. According to our guide, the wildebeests actually follow the zebras. In some places, you would see tons of zebras with the wildebeests, but mostly, it's maybe 100 or so peppered in amongst thousands of wildebeests.
This is the "sausage tree" - it's used by the Masai for it's medicinal properties to treat malaria and one other tropical disease. They also use the leaves to make their local alcohol. Mmmm....
More zebras - I took a ton of pictures of zebras. They are such crazy looking animals!
Gazelles - kind've boring looking, but pretty, nonetheless. Our guide call them "hart beests".
Isn't the landscape gorgeous??
We came upon these giraffes as sunset - the lighting was amazing. Also very cool looking animals. New fact learned: their saliva supposedly has healing, anti-microbial properties. So it's good I kissed one, right?
The wildebeests at sunset.
One of the lions we saw - we saw them multiple times. Usually we saw females, because they are the ones that do the hunting. Below are the lions stalking their prey - how they do it is a couple of them edge close to the prey and then lay down, acting totally nonchalant, like they don't care that they're only 5 feet away from food. Then the rest will slowly surround the animal and all of a sudden, they'll all attack at once. Our guide said "One buffalo, one lion, the buffalo wins. Two buffalo and the lions will never win." So they needed to separate these two, except they couldn't, so eventually they walked away. We never did see an actual kill, just a few immediately after.
A wildebeest - ugly creature, isn't it??
A Masai village - they put dung all the way around (so smelly!) to keep the lions away.
The great rift valley - this was right at the beginning of the drive. It extends from Israel all the way to Mozambique.
The kiddos and I loved these photos! What an adventure.
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