Day Eight - Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Inflating the balloon |
The balloon is inflated, and everyone is in it |
The pilot adjusts the gauges |
Up, up and away! |
Our souvenir balloon photo from 2009 |
A beautiful sunrise as the balloon set off |
A herd of elephants pass below |
The Mara River |
Coming in for a landing - setting up breakfast at the Lone Tree |
A champagne breakfast (full meal deal) on the Serengeti |
Lilac breasted roller |
Common eland |
Giraffe |
Elephants |
A lioness climbs the tree to get away from the flies |
23. A young lioness (Masai Mara) |
24. This lion is really comfy! (Masai Mara) |
25. Drinking at the waterhole (Masai Mara) |
A family of jackals |
21. Run, Tommy, Run! (Masai Mara) |
Hyena |
A topi on guard duty |
Baglafecht weaver |
Crocodile sunning himself |
This mom was showing her young cubs how to hunt |
As it turned out, they did pretty good! |
"all is well, we're going to sleep" |
Keeping cool under the tree |
A vulture in the tree - look down a bit, his head is there |
Picking the fleas off his buddy. Yummmm. |
The banded mongoose reminded me of cats, but surprisingly they belong in the dog family. |
Part of the Marsh Pride, it was getting late, but we just had to stay and watch them! |
Crowned crane |
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