A more detailed version of my article published in Hürriyet Seyahat
We are on our way to the Masai Mara. Our main purpose of coming here is to have a safari in the Masai Mara National Park and to see the Masai Mara natives. Our second day in Kenya. We’ve done so much since morning, but now we’re on our way to real adventure. Such a challenging road I’ve never gone before. We are grateful that our kidneys are in place, but we do not know what happened to us from the concussion.
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Dusty Dirty Roads of Masai Mara
After the equator, we set off for Masai Mara and a never-ending journey through the African steppes, which lasts from one o’clock to 12 o’clock, begins in dusty soil.. The roads were fine until here, but the road to the world’s largest and private national park is completely dirt.. Faces smile because we don’t know what will happen to us. Regardless, we laughed at everything and had fun.
In time, world organizations sent money to build the road here, but if they did, this road could not be built.. Bill Gates has a hotel half an hour away from the national park. If you want, you can pay 800 dollars a night and come here by helicopter and join the safari without going through this road.
I would still prefer the first one.. There are small planes that go directly to Masai Mara. This difficult dirt road allows us to collect memories that we will never forget.. There was also African products at a place we stopped on the way, but it was very expensive.. Do not buy anything there.
We pass many police stations along the way.. They put a nail board on the road. You wander through it like a maze. Don’t stop if you want. It’s very primitive, but it sure works.. We pass through big cities too.. Even in towns made up of tin huts.
We stop for a toilet when we pass a town like this.. After asking a few people, they finally show the inside of a narrow street.. Girls, we’re all walking down the street. There are no men with us.. I think this is the scariest toilet I’ve ever seen in my life.. We can’t close the door because it’s pitch black. black men out. They’re looking inside. I make eye contact with the man.
When I go out, the man comes up to me while I’m looking for wet wipes in my bag.. Reaching for my bag. touching my arm. Whatever you have, my arm turns into mud. His eyes are bloodshot.
Not quite herself. I think I was scared for the first time. Our team waiting at the beginning of the street doesn’t even know about us.. They’re lacquering. We push the man and get out of the street at full speed.
Our Vehicle Is Breaking Down On The Masai Mara Road
Vehicles Are Breaking Down. We’re standing in the wild. The sun setting the day before Lake Naivasha is setting today in the dust of the Masai Mara steppes. such is life. No matter what, nothing can spoil our happiness and joy. We have fun and laugh at every situation.
We wait for hours for the vehicle to be built.. Vehicles are a complete wreck.. How not to be a wreck in that tremor?. When Keffa stopped to pick up a mechanical part while passing through the towns, what she got was a semicircular wire.. Again, he stopped in the middle of the road and picked up a screw.. there is nothing here. Everything is valuable.
Normally they don’t let us get out of the vehicle.. Now we are in the middle of the wild because. We see children along the way. Children go to school barefoot on the roads where we are not allowed to go.. They run past every passing vehicle. They are used to. We throw chocolates, pens and candy out of the vehicle.
The vehicle is in such a dusty soil that we are walking with such a jolt that there is such a sound.. I feel like my head is going to explode from the shaking, the sound. I hold my cheeks. They literally hung from shaking. Normally, it is forbidden to stay on that road by car after 6, but we are still on the road at 12 at night.. This happened because we stopped by the equator.
As we get closer to the campsite, a Masai native appears in the light hit by the headlight of the vehicle.. It guides us back to the same darkness. After this incident, which has been repeated a few times, I get on my nerves and start laughing.. This must be what they call natural navigation. The gods must have really gone crazy.
Masai Mara Campground
Kilimanjaro on the outskirts we are in our camp and our tent is called Kilimanjaro. Don’t listen to what I said tent.. It has shower wc etc.. No beds without mosquito nets in Kenya. We came with our vaccines, we drink our malaria medicine. Interesting but not many flies. Maybe that’s why it’s winter here.
They take a blanket over themselves and warm up with it. They don’t have a coat. We are cold in the evenings, but one fleece is enough.. There is no electricity, the generator works at certain hours.. It’s not powerful enough to run a hair dryer, but you can charge your phone.
Speaking of charging, the socket system here is different.. If you didn’t bring a plug like me, you can insert a small key and turn it on, but bring an international plug.. Natives of Masai Mara roam around us. There is hot water in this tent, which I could not find in the hotel.. After a 12-hour ride on the stable road, the atmosphere is like The Gods Must Be Crazy movies.
The weather is pretty good cold. We managed to take a shower, but since there is no electricity, we dry our hair over the fire.. By the fire, in the pitch dark, we are in the bosom of the wild in Masai Mara. They say that wild animals can come to our tent at night, we are relieved.
There are no wild animals, but rats roam everywhere.. There are no flies, but we still use mosquito nets for this reason.. The situation is not very encouraging, but we are very excited for the safari tomorrow.
Masai Mara National Park, Safari
We have breakfast early in the morning. Before coming, the doctor said that when I went to get vaccinated, we should not drink any open water and even brush our teeth with closed water.. He said that you should not eat any uncooked product.. This being the case, there isn’t much left.
When I stopped by the kitchen to ask for something, I couldn’t eat much after the sight I saw.. After a while, I started to get the same taste from everything I ate, and I couldn’t eat it anyway.. It turns out that this means that the immune system has collapsed.
After returning, I slept with serums in pain. Don’t forget to take vitamins. At least something will keep you fresh. I never thought I would have a problem with food until I went here.
Masai Mara National Park is one of the largest national parks in the world. grain of. The other is in Tanzania Serengeti National National Park. These two national parks border. In between is Mara River. Mara River, where animals you see in these documentaries pass while migrating and crocodiles attack. Animals are constantly migrating between the two countries and there is no border to prevent this migration. .
HAKUNA MATATA becomes the number one word of the trip. This word, which is used all over Africa, is used to mean no problem.. They don’t mind anything. Everyone knows the movie The Lion King. It was so realistic that we fell into that cartoon.. Such an experience has never happened before.
Masai Mara Migration Time
Now it’s migration time and we came to watch this migration. Shortly after the entrance of the national park we see a giraffe killed by lions. How did they kill the huge animal?. Afterwards, jumping on a dirt road in the vast plain yellow steppes.
To watch, photograph and watch the animals we see.. The animals are so calm that it doesn’t scare them away if you drive around.. You can go and watch it very close.. Of course, we do not poke or disturb with the umbrella. After all, it’s a wild animal.
They put a stick on the roads that shouldn’t be taken, that’s all.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ours are against everything.. We teach barbecue to the Masai Mara native of Elin. Let’s find out how the man does it. Anyway, whatever you say, they did their own thing.
Very hard, white meat. They first seal it in the barbecue, then put it on the stakes and cook it like a tent in the middle fire.. I think it’s the tastiest thing I’ve ever eaten.. Here they kill animals by strangling, not slaughtering them.
Then they make a hole in their throat and collect their blood in a bowl.. They mix it with milk and drink it.. Since they are completely fed with protein, they all treat all women as muscle.. No grams of fat. This must be from choking.. We are traveling a bit with the lion family. Then, with National Geographic and BBC cameras and dozens of vehicles, we watch how yesterday’s dead giraffe was eaten by lions. I was there when that documentary was filmed. It’s such a geography that the wild inside you comes out.. The things you close your eyes while watching in documentaries are normal here.. Even you can sit down and eat that giraffe.