East Africa - Mara River Crossing

(WARNING: contains some images of animals in distress) Towards the end of 2023 we made a truly wonderful trip to East Africa - with a week on safari in both Kenya and Tanzania (see map) and then a few days in Zanzibar. This trip had been postponed from 2020, so hopes were high - but well and truly exceeded when we got there! We had so many exceptional wildlife encounters and I took so many photos, that I have struggled with how to arrange a few of them into albums. Accordingly, I've gone with Birds, Landscapes, Mara River Crossing (this album), People, Predators and Prey. Wildebeests and Zebras make a continuous clockwise migration between the Maasai Mara and the Serengeti, following the rains in search of better grazing. We had timed our trip to coincide with their crossing of the Mara River, but of course the chances of seeing it are very slim. But we were so lucky to be there at the right time and right place! Amazing! My thanks to our driver (Ole Maantu) for getting us in the right place - asante sana! Hakuna Matata!