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Just in case it’s necessary, the above is OUR opinion, and although other points of view may be out there, we’re not making room for them here!

If you want the MARA TIMBO COMPANY LINE (and lots more information than you’ll get here), then you know where to go….and you should go there and get educated. Just for the record, the Mara Timbo website is the first one we’ve found that not only doesn’t exaggerate the wonderfulness of their place, but where the reality is actually better than the photos. But, this blog is personal to us, and so we’ll be telling you what WE think about it.

Maybe YOU could be critical of this
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but we couldn’t be…....

OK….here’s the airport by the Oloololo entrance to the Maasai Mara game reserve
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If you look carefully on the right side, you’ll see the windsock at the north end of the strip (a white dot left of the tree)....while at the left side is the “terminal”! In front of us is the jeep track, NOT the runway! The welcoming committee is made up, on this day, of a number of Topi antelope.

Before the plane comes in, the guides and drivers from the various camps drive down to the “wind-sock end” of the runway and clear it of superfluous game animals
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We were met upon arrival by Kenanta from Mara Timbo - a full-blooded Masai who dresses the part, but maintains a tight hold on his cellphone!
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Kenanta was a personable and highly knowledgeable guide, who was particularly interested in the bird life of the area. He and I had a great time looking at birds, although since the rest of the guests in the vehicle were more focused on the big game, we kind of did it on the side…...
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Once we’d arrived, we headed straight for the Oloololo Gate
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After our first game drive (see next post), we were off for the camp. It’s about 6 kilometers from the gate to the turnoff, and then 7 kilometers of a private “road” to get to Mara Timbo. This isn’t a road in the sense that we think of it in the States - it’s a track that most of our cars would not be able to negotiate. We simply looked at the drive out as the first part of our game viewing - and we saw elephants, giraffes, zebra, dik-dik, and lots of other wildlife on the trip to and from camp.