26/7/05. Masai Mara.

Contrary to my deliberately-set low expectations, it's stuffed to the rafters with all the greats - zebras, lions, elephants, wildebeest, weird antelope things etc, and that's just the 1-hour introductory spin round when we arrive. Worth every last penny.

27/7/07. Masai Mara.

All day on safari. Just when you think you might be sick of endangered species, a new amazing sight pops its head up out of the long golden grass.

Basking hippos are hilariously fat, and the wildebeest migration is so good I can't think of anything cynical to say about it.

And the Masai-warrior-run campsite sells beer.

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