Final Day in the Mara and on Safari

We enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and left on a game drive for the remainder of the morning......on the trail of the elusive leopard.  We heard that a leopard had made a kill last night and had his trophy, a baby zebra, up in a tree.  We found the tree, but no leopard.  We spent time in the area looking for the leopard because, Aaron, our guide said he would return to finish his meal.  Well, it didn't happen while we were there.  

The free time in the middle of the day is welcomed by all as it is so very warm. We enjoy sitting in our little chickee hut by the pool, but are still very warm.

                     

This is the walkway to our rooms.  A reminder, the photo at the top of the blog page is the view side of our rooms looking out over the Mara and possibly as far as the Serengeti in Tanzania.

We have one more game drive late this afternoon.  Depending on the news on the CB radios in the vans, we may have one more shot at finding the leopards.

One of the highlights of this last game drive was down to the Tanzanian border.  While down, was south of where we were staying, we actually went up high on a ridge to the border area where it was safe to exit the van. We could stand with one foot in Kenya and the other in Tanzania.  

             In this photo, Gene and Kathy are in Kenya and Joyce and Bob are in Tanzania-- no passport needed!!

 The vistas were almost indescribable.  We could see forever out across the Serengeti in one direction and the Mara in the other.  We drove through a huge herd of wildebeest numbering in the thousands.  If they all came over in the same crossing, some safari people were treated to a National Geographic moment for sure.  We just could not fathom the numbers.    

  

               

We never did find that elusive leopard, but our final drive was a fitting farewell to our lovely Maasai Mara.  We once read the following quote about describing an African experience:  " If you have been to Africa, no explanation is needed.  It you haven't been, there are no words possible to describe the experience."