The Mara is green again

The Mara is quiet and beautiful at the moment. With few tourists in most of the camps and less vehicles in the park, it is the place to be for those who love wilderness concepts.


After the recent rains which wreaked havoc in many places in the country, the Mara is now green with the grass growing tall fast especially on the central plains. On the lower areas and marshes, it is still wet though we have not had rain for a couple of weeks now.

Most of the general plains game have moved to drier areas, mainly high grounds. This is normally to avoid fungal infection s in their hooves and also to avoid being preyed upon by the predators. This also makes life difficult for lions, cheetah and leopards to hunt. This is a time when we see lions going up termite mounts or tree to gain vantage points to scan around for prey. Cheetahs too are seen doing the same, and even though they are not good climbers, they can bee seen going up trees to look around.

A herd of Elephants going through the long grass

A lion scanning the plains from a termite mount

A cheetah runs after an Impala yesterday (But was taken by Hyaenas)

A moment with Gorillas

NO Gorillas in the Mara! these are shots taken in Volcanoes park In Rwanda

After a very busy season, I took a break from the Mara cats to track the Gorillas and chimps in Rwanda. It was a great experience seeing the Gorillas, just a few feet from me; awesome creatures. The chimps too, though quite a challenge sometimes to track were also a big plus for the trip.


I have been away from Masai Mara the past two weeks and have just returned to find all the cats in their usual places. Olive with her two male cubs is still around Olkiombo airstrip area. She killed and impala two days ago. Rhino ridge male who is the father of the cubs has never been far away from the same location as well since he ousted ‘Big boy’ from this territory.

The three Honey’s boys have been on Topi plains for the past two weeks. They mated with the female who has also been roaming the same area with her single sub adult cub.

Olkiombo pride came to a big feast two days ago whey the made two kills along the Talek river all the current 25 members came together; it was a great sight!

We still have some rain but not too wet and so can still move around with ease though the grass is now a challenge to spotting the cats!