We saw elephants sitting on the side of the road on the drive to Tortilas. Arrived around 1:00 for lunch and dad was one happy man. This place had his kind of food. As you can see from the "tent" picture, we aren't exactly roughing it.
Our evening game drive was incredible. We sat and watched a herd of elephant but then all of a sudden Tim said "Hold onto your hats, we gotta go." He didn't tell us where we were going but we could tell he was excited. We drove 50 mph for about 15 minutes and came upon a herd of about 50 elephants walking across the lake bed to get water. They would return once they quenched their thirst. It was the sight that dad came to Africa to see.
Once the elephants get organized they walk in a single file line and they are so quiet you honestly cannot hear them walking despite the fact that they weigh between 8 and 14,000 pounds. Look closely at the picture below and you can see a faint outline of the single file path.
There was a devastating drought in Amboseli in 2009 that killed off a huge percentage of the animals. We came upon the skeleton of a giraffe and we thought someone came out and arranged the bones, but Tim explained that this giraffe just laid down to die and because there were so many animals dying that many of them remained untouched.
Favorite bird:
The entire trip is like one WOW after another!
ReplyDeleteWe love the birds too,the trip looks amazing and incredible just to be in the wild and there is not a shopping opportunity in sight!