Amboseli Day Two

Rosa had never been camping before and the luxury tents we were staying in was the most wilderness-ey experience she had ever been in. All night she was waking my up, freaking out about all the sounds the animals were making outside. I am no camping expert but I had been enough times in my life to able to ignore all animal sounds and go to sleep. I felt a little mean telling her to stop being a baby and go to sleep because they are not going to come in our tent and eat us then promptly going falling back a sleep but hey what am I going to do, I need my beauty rest. In the morning we woke up and got ready to go out for our 6:30 am game drive. We saw a bunch of elephants and zebra but for the next hour and a half we just drove around looking for lions and we were not able to find anything. There was a lion spotting but by the time we got over to where we were we just missed them. The rocking of the van going over the bumps roads even lulled me to sleep for a while which is kind of embarrassing. Who goes to sleep during a safari?

We then headed back to the hotel for a quick breakfast and checking out so we could go on another game drive before we had to be out of the park. You only pay for 24 hours in the park and if you go over at all they charge you. So after eating way to much at the buffet again and packing we went out for the game drive in record time. Luckily for us the game drive was much more successful. We didn't see any lions but we saw tons of monkeys, ostriches, zebras. I saw my first hippo! It was really far away and I had to use binoculars but it was so huge and cute, they are so incredibly round. That wasn't event the best part of the day though. Right after we left the hippos we came across the hugest herd of elephants I have ever seen. The day before I saw a herd of 200 but it was so far away that it almost doesn't count but this one was a herd of over 100 elephants that walked right past us! There were elephants of every size tiny babies, ones with giant tusks. One elephant that was walking with a tiny baby turned and looked straight at us as all angry. I felt those elephants tiny beady eyes pierce my soul but after staring us down it just walked off. Some of the elephants were marching together in a straight line and I couldn't help but think of the elephant marching song from The Jungle Book, they looked exactly like that. I could have watched them walk in to the distance forever but we had to head back to Nairobi our time had run out. I have to say from the two safaris I have been on in terms of animals the Mara is the best but in terms of the scenery and landscape Amboseli is the nicest. It was a very successful and fun safari I think that I want to do one more before I leave maybe just to a park that is close by though.