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Africa: The Migration (8) – The Crossing

September 21, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Mission accomplished! While the whole point of the migration safari is to see the animals, there’s hardly any “piece” of the safari that is more exciting than to see the animals make the crossing. It’s not always a pretty picture, for early in the migration (probably up to within a few days of when we …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - migration, Africa - Wildlife, Mara River, Wildebeest

Africa: The Migration (4) – The Wildebeests and the Zebras

September 5, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

The Best Four came on safari to see the Great Migration and we certainly were not disappointed. We’ll get to the numbers later, as we try to describe our adventures with finding the animals crossing the Mara River to continue their migration on up into the Kenya grasslands. For the present, let’s share some of …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Animals, Africa - migration, Africa - The Great Migration, Kenya - Zebra, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Wildebeest

Africa: The Migration

August 27, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Sometimes referred to as “The Great Migration” or the “Wildebeest Migration,” most people in Africa simply speak of this incredible natural phenomenon as “The Migration.” The sheer scope of this animal trek is, quite frankly, hard to believe for many people. How could so many animals know to come together to move about the continent? With …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - animals, Kenya - Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya - Migration, Serengeti, Tanzania, Wildebeest

Masai Mara (9): The Animals

May 24, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

So now we come to why Mr. Guy has come to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The views are without a doubt magnificent to see, and there’s no question but that coming to Masai Mara to see the landscape is a very special experience. Indeed, I imagine there probably are people who travel around the …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: African buffalo, Hippopotamus, Impala, Kenya - Hyenas, Mongoose, Topi, Wildebeest

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