点评:We spent three days as part of a tour group staying at the Mara Serena Safari Lodge, with jeeps and drivers provided by our tour agency. The Mara Triangle was such a beautiful place, so quiet and serene, and you could see for miles. We saw many desert date trees silhouetted against the sunset and rain showers in the distance toward the escarpment.
The animals we saw in the Mara Triangle included: hippopotamus in the Mara River; red-headed rock agama; banded mongoose; elephant; eland; spotted hyena; lion; cape buffalo; impala; topi; Thomson’s gazelle; plains zebra; Maasai giraffe; olive baboon; defassa waterbuck; warthog; Nile crocodile; cheetah; leopard; blue wildebeest. Birds we saw included: white-bellied bustard; ostrich; lappet-faced vulture; black-headed heron; grey heron; black crake; secretarybird; lilac-breasted roller; grey crowned crane; yellow-billed oxpecker; red-billed oxpecker; white-browed Coucal; Marabou stork; red-necked spurfowl; hamerkop; brown snake eagle. On a pre-dawn drive to our hot air balloon excursion, we saw a puff adder crossing the road. From the balloon we saw a lot of wildlife and a great view of the Mara River.
One morning our driver stopped for a while to let us watch different family groups of elephants travel from the mountains to the river. He said they do this every day. We counted at least 75 elephants while we sat there. As one group would pass us, we would look back and see another group coming along. We saw a lot of baby elephants in these caravans.
Then he moved the jeep so we could look down into the Mara River and watch the hippopotamus. There were at least 23 of them there.
One afternoon we watched two cheetahs (our driver said they were probably brothers) stalk and chase warthogs. The warthogs disappeared into a hole in the ground and escaped. Then we stopped to watch a leopard stalk an impala.
Another afternoon our driver took us off-road (this is allowed in certain sections of the reserve) and drove up to a rock under a sycamore-fig tree where a male lion was lying on top of the rock, and another was lying on the ground nearby. Later we saw some female lions and cubs with a zebra carcass.
翻译:我们作为旅游团的一员,在马拉塞雷纳游猎旅馆 (Mara Serena Safari Lodge) 度过了三天,我们的旅行社提供吉普车和司机。马拉三角是一个如此美丽的地方,如此安静祥和,你可以看到数英里之外。我们看到许多沙漠枣树在夕阳的映衬下和远处悬崖上的阵雨映衬着。
我们在马拉三角看到的动物有:马拉河里的河马;红头岩蜥蜴;带状猫鼬;大象;大羚羊;斑鬣狗;狮子;布法罗角;黑斑羚;托皮;汤姆森瞪羚;平原斑马;马赛长颈鹿;橄榄狒狒;德法萨羚羊;疣猪;尼罗河鳄鱼;猎豹;豹;蓝色角马。我们看到的鸟类包括:白腹鸨;鸵鸟;垂面秃鹫;黑头鹭;灰鹭;黑秧鸡;秘书鸟;紫胸滚子;灰冠鹤;黄嘴啄木鸟;红嘴啄木鸟;白眉库卡尔;鹳鹳;红颈雀;哈默科普;棕色蛇鹰。在黎明前驱车前往热气球之旅时,我们看到一只毒蛇穿过马路。从气球上我们看到了很多野生动物和马拉河的美景。
一天早上,我们的司机停下来让我们观看不同家族的大象从山上到河边。他说他们每天都这样做。我们坐在那里数了一下,至少有 75 头大象。当一组人从我们身边经过时,我们会回头看到另一组人走过来。我们在这些大篷车中看到了很多小象。
然后他移动了吉普车,这样我们就可以俯瞰马拉河并观看河马。那里至少有23人。
一天下午,我们看到两只猎豹(我们的司机说它们可能是兄弟)跟踪并追逐疣猪。疣猪消失在地上的一个洞里,然后逃走了。然后我们停下来观看豹子跟踪黑斑羚。
另一个下午,我们的司机带我们越野(保护区的某些区域允许这样做),开车来到无花果树下的一块岩石前,岩石上躺着一只雄狮,另一只狮子则躺在树上。附近的地面。后来我们看到了一些母狮和幼崽,还有斑马的尸体。