After 3 days in the Game Park, Allison's daily routine: 6am game drive looking at animals, return to camp for studies and lectures following by an afternoon game drive. Needless to say she loves it. Yesterday they spotted numerous cheetahs and a large group of lions with little cubs playing all over the adults. She has some great video photage of it. It seems that Allison will be doing a lot of photo sharing as different students have nice pictures of Allison, one has great scenery shots while another, with her long zoom, has tremendous animal shots. Allison said the sunrises and sunsets have been unbelievable as their is a lot of clouds and thunderstorms around. They've had rain during 2 game drives and all last night which suspended today's morning drive. However, when the sun came out blistering hot today they were sitting up on this hill outside looking out over the savanah - herds of elephants and other animals, acaisha trees everywhere and the expanse of the savannah for miles. I don't know how she concentrates!
They are currently at a Kenyan Wildlife Research Center in the Narok District (eastern part of the Mara). They have been camping in nice rugged tents for the last few nights without running water ('bucket showering') but the food has been fantastic -"best camping food I've ever had". As we spoke on the phone Allison said the group was scattered around the campfire, sitting reading or doing work and some had already gone to bed (9:30 pm local).
Her itinerary has her leaving the Masai Mara Sunday going to Nivasha (3 days), Nguruman (3 days), Elangata Wuas (5 days) before arriving in Nairobi again. She does not expect to have internet access again until then on March 6th. She will try to upload a couple pictures.
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