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Slideshow (118 photos)

Masai Mara (Kenya) (map)
 

Large male lion, somewhat covered in flies

 

Grasshopper

 

Our tent at Kicheche, perhaps the most comfortable place we stayed in Africa

 

Breakfast during the first morning of our safari

Male elephant and approaching storm

 

Breakfast at Kicheche; very civilized

Wildebeest

 

Warthog

 

Two ostrich

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Giraffe

Giraffe and baby

 

Resting thompson gazelle

 

Resting leopard

 

Baby elephant

 

Topi

Lion

 

Clouds moving over the mara

 

Bat eared fox

 

Jackal

 

Sparring wildebeests

 

Hyena

 

Hyena

 

Jackal

 

Waterbuck

 

Two zebra

 

Zebra

 

Zebra

Zebra

 

A troop of baboons

 

Tawny eagle on log

 

Lions feasting on a topi

 

Lions feasting on a topi

Lions feasting on a topi

 

Lions feasting on a topi

 

Lions feasting on a topi

 

Lions feasting on a topi

 

Lion

 

Lion

 

Two lions

 

Two hippos in the water

 

Mike prepares breakfast out on the mara

 

Breakfast on safari

 

Portrait of Mike, our guide

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

Two impala sparring

 

Two impala sparring

 

White rhino

Two white rhinos

 

Two white rhinos

 

White rhino mouth

 

White rhino head

 

Lions feasting in a cloud of flies

 

Lion with a full stomach

 

Male lion

 

Male lion

 

Two vultures

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Tawny eagle perched on branch

 

Wildebeest with birds

 

Baboon in tree

Eland

 

Eland

 

Two vultures

 

Lucie in safari vehicle going into the river

 

Running giraffes

 

Giraffe with drool

 

Approaching storm on the mara

 

Jackal with the hind quarters of a dik dik

 

a herd of elands

 

Ostrich

 

Resting giraffe

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Two crown cranes

Two crown cranes

 

Hyena

 

Secretary bird

 

Secretary bird with nest material

 

Secretary bird in flight

 

Secretary bird landing in nest

 

Resting buffalo

 

Leopard in tree

 

Leopard in tree

Leopard in tree

 

Leopard in tree

 

Leopard in tree

 

Dik dik

 

Lion licking

 

Lion

 

Lion

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Lion

Lion

 

Some bird, which type I've forgotten

 

Giraffe and two zebra

Giraffe and baby giraffe

 

Two waterbucks

Sparring zebras

 

Impala

 

Nursing elephant

Nursing elephant

 

Elephant

 

Two elephants

Mother and baby elephants

 

Elephant

 

Elephant

 

Elephant

 

Male elephant

 

Drinking elephant

 

Elephant with grass

 

Elephant with grass

 

Elephant

 

Baby protected by two larger elephants

 

Tourists with big-ass cameras

Jumping vervet monkey