Safari!

The safari was surreal. Of course, all my previous experiences with these wild animals were in the setting of a zoo. It seemed strange to see them living in the wild. It really almost seemed fake. But, I could not deny what I was seeing - a cheetah mother with her cubs, a leopard climbing a tree to feast on the antelope he had killed earlier in the day, elephants and giraffes grazing in the grasslands. We also saw hyenas, zebras, hippos, gazelle, water buffalo, warthog (which looked exactly like pumba from the Lion King), wildebeest, and lions. I was (and still am) awestruck by the immense natural beauty of the masai mara and the animals living within it.