Tuesday February 15th. This morning I tried to book the night of the 17th at the Boulevard, but it was full. So they got me a room in their sister hotel, Hotel Six Eighty. Then the man from the Hostel company in Nairobi came to my hotel to pick me up and take me to an ATM because the thunderstorm knocked out this credit card machine. So, after paying ($390 for three days, all food included, accommodation and park entrance fees) in Kenyan schillings he took me back to the hotel to meet my safari driver.
We left the Boulevard and picked up four other people. We are now five, Jan, 23 year old young man from Germany, Kayo 21 from Japan, Aska 21 from Japan and Sarah from Hong Kong. We drove four hours across Kenya and we all talked and got to know each other. Then we had lunch at a restaurant en route, and then we continued onward. The roads were good highways for awhile and then it became a rough paved road and finally 36 kilometres of terrible dirt road. The washboard on the road was so bad, that no one drives on it.They have created a lane on either side of the road on what should have been the shoulder.
Finally arrived at Camp Sinai, where we will stay for the next two nights. I am bunked with Jan. This is a very nice campground. Our tent is quite roomy, sheltered under a metal roof, has a concrete pad floor and contains two beds and out the back door a ceramic washroom and shower! Great place.
We got organized and then we went on our first game drive from 4:30 to 6:30. The entrance to Masai Mara National Park is about a kilometre away. We saw impala, zebra, elephants, topi, Thompson gazelles, crowned cranes, three sleeping male lions, and giraffe.
Back in time for dinner and then we relaxed for a bit and looked at each other's photos. Now off to bed in anticipation of another early start.
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