"Maasailand in Kenya and Tanzania is one of the last great wildlife refuges in the world. The Maasai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem supports the highest concentration of wildlife on Earth. Encompassing the cross-border region of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya and the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Maasai territories provide habitat for 80 percent of East Africa's wildlife" this information came from lonely planet tour guide. we have been game viewing in the Maasailand. We went to the Lake Manyara, Ngorogoro Crater, Serengeti, and lake Victoria in Tanzania and in Kenya we went to Lake Naivasha, Lake Ngoro, and the Maasai Maura. We saw tons of animals real close such as, . These animals were all hanging out together like a disney movie. A lion would be happy to lay within the shade of the tourist vans and just take a nap. After each game drive we would camp in the bush.

So again bush camping means no fences to keep out the animals and no toilet facilities. You could hear animals all night outside your tent. One night it was lions and hyenas and then another night it was buffalos, and the scariest night it was Hippos. We camped in the same location a tourist was killed by a hippo a couple weeks earlier. Then I was awakened by a hippo loudly eating grass around my tent. He was literally leaning his muddy, smelly body into my tent. I scrunched up into a tiny ball to make sure he never touched me. We have been told hippos are dumb animals and if your tent is in there normal path to food they will not be smart enough to figure an alternative route they will just trot right through and over your tent. My tent was definitely on their food source, luckily they were smart enough to eat around my tent and not through it.
Journal Entry Masai Land Posted On: 5/23/2005