“When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee?” William Blake In the three weeks it has been since our last report when we mentioned the wildlife moving south into this area, the herds have now [...]
“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…and if you have eyes you will see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to [...]
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard ‘Hamjambo’ (Greetings) to you all from the Mara and specifically the middle of the plains where, for the most part, it has been a month of clear, starry nights [...]
Migration update from our friends and colleagues in the Mara: As of August 1: For the past two days there have been a lot of activities at the Mara river by Look out hill where the wildebeest have been crossing over to the triangle. However, there has been a change in direction of movement of [...]
September has started in style with a few days of very dramatic and action packed migration crossings on the Mara River as thousands of Wildebeest and Zebra jockeyed for position packed into river bends before the pressure built up into a frenzy with the Zebra almost always leading the way. The month so far has [...]
Over cups of freshly brewed Kenyan coffee, while eating colourful fruit salad and delicious cooked breakfast from Juma’s kitchen, all of us at Mara Plains looked out across the vast sun-drenched plains this morning to approximately two thousand Wildebeest charging in front of the mess, stampeding South. It was an epic sight indeed. What better [...]
June has been packed with excitement in and around Mara Plains camp. The grass here is green and lush after the full moon brought on the ‘Migration rains’, and the Lion populations of the Olare Orok Conservancy (said to be the densest in the world) are trying hard to make an impact on the Loita [...]
The first waves of the Loita migration are arriving near Mara Plains, which is located in the Olare Orok Conservancy on the northern boundary of Kenya’s Masai Mara. Great snaking lines of cantering wildebeest and herds of Zebra are rolling over the hills from the East, and the air is abuzz with anticipation for the [...]
