Jed, Erin and I got up at 6am for the 6.30am drive. The full days drive had taken its toll on Sam and she decided to stay at home. Frank, our driver (below with Sam) was waiting and off we went.
Pretty soon we saw a group of jeeps in the distance and as we joined them, we saw they were looking at a pair of Lions.
That was pretty impressive, but next up was just amazing. We drove into the park to another group of jeeps and saw the 2 cheetahs stalking a herd of wilderbeast. They slowly edged forward and one slowly got up, started slowly walking forward before breaking into a run, then a sprint towards the wilderbeasts. They scattered, but the cheetah locked onto one poor individual and hauled it down. The other cheetah joined it and they quickly finished the poor animal off. It was a truly amazing experience to see it unfold.
We saw another lion on the way home, but that was it for our main drives. We’d seen 3 of the big 5, missing leopards and rhino’s.
We were already packed for our 10.30am departure and set off back to Nairobi.
As we left the park, we saw giraffes and a herd of elephants.
The journey back was long and we turned into our hotel at 6.30pm, only to be told they were full as they’d ignored our reservation and pushed us out into a poorer standard sister hotel. After a heated discussion, we had to accept the move and were driven 5 minutes down the road. The rain had started to fall and just when you thought nothing else could go wrong, the power went off!
It eventually came back on again and we turned in, ready to head off to Diani beach the next day.
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