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 Now we get to an absolute highlight of the trip, that I'd recommend everybody to do when visiting Kenya! It's one of mother nature's great wonders: the Maasai Mara. It's basically the Kenyan part of the more famous Serengeti as it is called in nearby Tanzania. The Maasai Mara is very sparsely populated by the indigenous Maasai people and is a savanna full of animals. That's why this part three is the bombastic finale of our animal series. [Author's note: Since this was such a beautiful part of our trip, this post is gonna contain a lot of pics. I'm already getting prepared to the mental challenge not to throw the iPad out of the window when dealing with blogger.com's retarded picture upload. 😵] Flight The most efficient way to get there is by flight with a small plane – in our case from Nairobi. On our way there we landed four times on small airfields in the Mara and delivered or picked up passengers. Luckily the weather was good, so we could already e...

Background info So I started writing this post over a month ago and continued for at least ten times. But now I deleted everything. The thing was becoming a boring disgrace. Which is a great pity, since it was my favorite topic up to that point of our trip. The visit of the largest slum on the African continent! And I was just over-doing it. Too many details for the history, filled with doubts if I get everything right. So now the short and dirty version. Firstly, numbers: according to different sources cited in Wikipedia, the slum has between 170.000 and 2.000.000 inhabitants. Mind-boggling, isn't it? Well, more realistically it's probably something between 300.000 and 800.000. But read the Wiki article, I'll leave the judgement to you. And all numbers there are anyways over 10 years old, so who really knows? Next, history: of course the thing started again with colonialism – how could it be otherwise? First it was a home to colored (forced) railroad workers that weren...