And, the next week we went to Masai Mara which was a fantastic few days. We alternated between all-you-can-eat buffets at our lodge and long game drives. We timed our trip perfectly, right in the middle of the wildebeest migration, so there were hundreds of thousands of animals, as far as you could see. We saw elephants, lions, cheetahs, wildebeest, zebras, impalas, gazelles, topis, dik diks (yes, they are really called that - they’re like tiny little impalas), giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, pumbas (also known as warthogs), jackals, baboons, vultures, etc. We went to Masai River one day and did a walk along it where we got uncomfortably close to some very very large hippos and crocodiles. Fortunately we had a ranger with quite a large gun to protect us! We also saw the point where the
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