GOOD BYE MASAI MARA!

THE END OF A SAFARI - AUGUST 1994


"DEPARTURE - From the Sopa Lodge, back to Nairobi"



"VAN TRIP - Safari equipped lady and young lady"





"MASAI MARA - Animals, colours, views..."


"UNPLEASANT INCIDENT, no accident..."


"SAND RIVER"


"THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY - runs north to south for some 5,000 km, from northern Syria to central Mozambique. Its width varies from thirty to one hundred kilometres, and its depth from a few hundred to several thousand metres"


"CLOUDS"


"RAINBOW!"

MASAI VILLAGE

QUITE AN EXPERIENCE - AUGUST 1994

The Masai are an indigenous African tribe of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania, in the vast open spaces of the Great Rift Valley.



"MASAI MEN - Very tall and in red!"



"HOUSES - Low doors, small places... Rounded and oblong in shape, the homes are built in a large circle that serves to protect an inner kraal, where the cattle bed down for the night. The entire perimeter of the village is fenced with sharp, thorny branches that protect both the Masai and their cattle from hyenas, leopards, and lions"


"HOUSE BUILDING - Masai homes are traditionally built by the women. They are constructed of natural fibre together with grass and then covered with cow dung - the Masai believe that all the cattle on the earth belong to them. It stank!"



"MASAI WOMEN - Running the village"


"KIDS - All different, All equal!"

FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL!

MASAI MARA - AUGUST 1994





"LIONS AND GNUS"


"VULTURES"

SOME MORE ANIMALS...

ALWAYS IN MASAI MARA - AUGUST 1994



"ANTELOPES - Hoofed animals with hollow horns!"



"ZEBRAS - It seems they don't get ulcers..."



"GNUS - Lion's supermarket!"


"CAPE BUFALOS - One of the Big Five, together with lions, elephants, leopards and black rhinoceros"


"OSTRICHES - The largest living species of bird and the only living species of the Struthionidae family, they can run at about 65 km/h.


"BIRDS"




"RTHINOS - They have acute hearing, good sense of smell, but poor eyesight. The use of their horns in traditional Asian medicine is responsible for their decline"



"MONKEYS - There are 264 known species still in existence!"


"BABOON TREE - Baboons are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger"



"GIRAFFES - Always beautiful..."

ELEPHANTS & CATS...

WILD ANIMALS, NOT SO WILD... - AUGUST 1994

ELEPHANTS




"LONELY HEART - Careful!"


"HIDDEN - Playing games"



"FAMILY LIFE - Protecting from the rain"



"ON THE WAY - Inspection visit"

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CATS





"CHEETAH - Looking around for a meal..."




"FEMALE LIONS"


"YOUNG LION"


"KING LION"