Masai Mara

Our first destination in Kenya was the Masai Mara National Park, a vast expanse of rolling hills and grasslands studded with the iconic balanite trees – the African savannah. 

The plains seems to go for hundreds of miles in every direction; there are no settlements, no surfaced roads (just mud and gravel tracks) and no services of any kind, a true wilderness area bursting with wildlife at every corner. 

Only safari minibuses disturb the peace, but people are not allowed to leave their vehicles and the animals just seem to ignore them!