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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...

 Let's get to part two of the animal series! I am starting to cheat a little bit in terms of the order of things – sue me! Generally, I still have to write five posts if I want to cover the trip in Kenya properly (!!). Luckily (meh...) I was lying around with Covid  for a week in Nairobi, otherwise I would have experienced even more and the backlog would be completely unsustainable... Anyways, back to topic. So we took a matatu to Naivasha – the town situated next to lake Naivasha about 90km north of Nairobi. Naivasha is a typical weekend holiday destination Nairobians. There is the possibility of camping near the lake shore (we did not do that, we lived in a palace) and there are several National Parks to visit. Ok not really a palace, but it had Palace in it's name – does that count? Generally our neighborhood was very lovely, featuring the essentials of life: Some impressions from Naivasha town: There are three National Parks in Naivasha: Hell's Gate National Park , the...