Another herbivore, the eland, also eats this grass, but only when it is already old. This allows these animals to coexist peacefully in the same place without competing with each other for food.
There are all photos of animals flying around, let's change the taste today. I'll post a photo of a beautiful girl for everyone to feast their eyes on - Miss Xu who helped us arrange various affairs in Africa, I'll post a photo to show my gratitude!
Also, I have to report a piece of news. I have captured the lion hunting process that Yunluo most wanted to see. This requires not only time but also luck. The ending is not complete, but the luck can be rated 80 points. On the safari car, the lion came within 3 meters of Yunluo. This is not a telephoto zoom. The distance from the lion was less than 3 meters. I'll send a mobile phone selfie as proof later.
I guess few people can do this! That is a wild animal hunting on the grassland, not a toy in the zoo for people to take pictures casually. First, here is a photo of a lion group looking at its prey, a big buffalo. There are many photos of the detailed encirclement process later.
Let's go back to the story from last time. This is the story I told before about the hippopotamus that broke into Yunluo's room door at midnight. I hid and shone a flashlight on it and took a sneak shot when it turned around. The hippopotamus made noises at midnight, the giraffe made noises in the morning, and after waking up from a nap, it blocked Yunluo's door and refused to leave. Maybe this guy started to harass Yunluo after dinner yesterday.
Yunluo protested, this is Yunluo's territory! As soon as Yunluo protested, this guy started to pee, you can still see it in the picture. Animals all use urine to mark their territory, okay! Yunluo's urine is not as big as yours, give up!
We set out in the morning, heading for Masaimara - the most beautiful and wild Masai Mara grassland in East Africa! First we will walk 200 kilometers on a good road, and then another 100 kilometers on a dirt road like this.
The car was so broken that the windows had to be opened. This was the main reason why Yunluo was surrounded by road covers. Yunluo had been in Africa for a few days and could hardly find a car with air conditioning and windows closed. I recalled Ye Qianwen's song "Walk Away with Elegance". The world is rolling.
Look at this tree, the tree that Yunluo has always thought was beautiful since childhood in "Animal World". Today I saw it and it is called the flat-topped albizzia. It's OK if there is no car in front of you, because seeing your own car reminds you of the feeling of "riding away from the dust". But if there is a car within 100 meters in front of you, you can only sing "Walk Away with Elegance" silently.
Maasai robe - all Maasai men, Maasai warriors, have such a colorful robe, called shuka. It is woven from pure wool. Yunluo bought one on the road for 4000ksh. Maasai men, - the warriors that Yunluo has admired for a long time, the warriors who can kill lions with bare hands, Yunluo is here.
The advantages of brightly colored battle robes are, first, it is easy to find if you get lost on the grassland, and second, wild beasts are afraid of this color and can protect themselves.
In the dry season, it is very difficult for people and animals to get water. Here is a talk about the weather in Kenya. Because it is located on the equator + plateau. The high temperature throughout the year is 22-26 degrees Celsius, and the low temperature is about 10-14 degrees Celsius. So there is no temperature change in a year, and there are no four seasons in Kenya.
The rainy season is from March to June and from October to December each year, and the rest of the months are the dry season. The rainy season is divided into two parts: April to June is the heavy rainy season, and October to November is the light rainy season. So in conclusion: Kenya does not have spring, summer, autumn and winter, only rainy and dry seasons. It rains for several months, and it is dry for several months when it does not rain. It's a rip-off!
He walked alone on the vast grasslands where wild animals roamed. He arrived at the residence of the Maasai grassland. Today's residence is very rough and primitive. This is today's "hotel lobby".
This is the room where Yunluo lives. There is a tent under the thatched house. There is a power cut, yellow water is provided at a limited time, heavy-tasting sheets, and TV and telephone are even more impossible.
But when we entered the Maasai village and looked at the women carrying water on their backs, we knew that it was very good to have such conditions here. Many black people were running everything manually. We put down our luggage and rushed out to see the village of Maasai warriors in our dreams.
Don't cry, little brother, your little ** is dragging on the ground. Maasai men - equipped with a knife, a hammer, and a stick. These are the three things that all Maasai men always have in their hands.
For the $30 fee, the Maasai men began to dance a welcome dance. Let me introduce the Maasai: they account for 2% of Kenya's population. They are a prominent symbol of Kenya. They despise the concept of borders and graze livestock along the border between Kenya and Tanzania as the seasons change.
Agriculture and land ownership are looked down upon. The ideal state is to live in harmony with nature. Both men and women are circumcised. Circumcision is to cut the genitals with a knife. For men, it is just skin cutting, but for women, it is a kind of living persecution and destruction! I won’t explain the female genital parts here. If you want to know, you can Baidu these two words
Marseille jump - jump from the spot with both feet tightly together and with great force. This jump represents so many meanings. Jumping high is the most welcome meaning, jumping high means you are the most handsome Maasai man, and jumping high means you can marry a wife without exchanging a cow for her.
They have been practicing for this jump since they were young. The average Maasai man can jump half a person's height with one jump, which is an amazing jumping ability. Maasai brothers, it's a pity that Yun Luo forgot to take off his own battle robe when he came out.
The Maasai people's houses are made of cow dung. Cows are everything to the Maasai people. They drink fresh cow blood and raw milk, use cow dung as fuel, as foundation, and as a dwelling. They also use cows to exchange for wives.
Cows are everything. The staple food of the Masai is cow blood and milk, supplemented by a drink called mursik, a milk drink fermented from cow urine and ash. The blood is taken directly from the cow's carotid artery, which will not cause permanent harm to the cow. When thirsty, they insert tubes into the cow's blood vessels to drink the drink. This is the Maasai.
The coming-of-age ceremony for Maasai men is to kill a lion on the grassland with your own hands! If the lion is not dead and the man does not come back alive, it means that you are not qualified to be an adult man, and your life ends. Although it is no longer continued due to strong government control and restrictions, this is not a legend, but a part of Maasai culture for a long time.
In the Maasai, women are responsible for household chores and farming. Men are dedicated to herding and hunting. The characteristics of Maasai women are that they are bald and wear heavy earrings. Wearing heavy earrings for a long time will cause a big hole in their ears, but the aesthetic view of the Maasai is that the bigger the hole, the more beautiful it is.
The cooling oil on their hands was given to them by Yunluo. When they arrived, they knew why they all asked for cooling oil. It was very useful in the crowd of flies. I regretted not buying them more of this two-dollar box stuff. It was really useful and applicable.
Children who grew up in a pile of cow dung and a swarm of flies. I feel very pitiful when I see them. This is Africa, poor Africa, backward Africa!
Yunluo struggled for a long time when posting this photo! Because this photo may make people feel uncomfortable or even nauseous. And I don’t want to over-exaggerate what I saw during the trip, after all, my mood is to travel.
But in the end, I decided to post it because this photo is enough to let Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi, who complain about all the unhappiness in life, know that they are happy!
There were still two hours before dark after we left the Maasai village. We couldn't wait until tomorrow, so we went to the reserve to look for the armed guards who entered the reserve - the rangers. In Kenya, almost all people with security responsibilities, even hotel security guards, are armed with live ammunition.
I don't know if it has something to do with the recent frequent terrorist attacks by Somali pirates. When Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi drove into a hotel near Nairobi, they had to use a "mine detector" to check if there were any explosives. There shouldn't be any in the car, I'm watching. I hope there are no explosive packs in the hotel.
Entering the Masai Mara Reserve, huge herds of animals began to appear. Gazelles, cheetahs specialize in eating this guy, but it is small but very flexible. After watching for a long time, it turns out that these two are preparing for reproductive exercise. This is the first three seconds, hehehehe. I dare not share the following photos!
Guinea fowl, there are more of these on the grassland than you think, in groups everywhere. It's getting dark, so here's a photo of the sunset on the Masai Mara grassland. The sunset and animals on the Masai Mara grassland---a beautiful sight on the list of National Geographic magazine! What I saw today is indeed worthy of its reputation!
It's a new morning. Today I'm on safari in the Masai Mara. Let's take a look at a map of East Africa. The East African savannah mainly spans Kenya and Tanzania.
This is the location map of the Masai Mara Reserve. In the lower left corner is the Masai Mara Reserve, where the clouds are falling now. Below that is the border with Tanzania, and across the border is the Serengeti grassland, which is larger than the Masai Mara.
This morning we are going to do a balloon safari that is more like the hunting trips of the past. We rent a white man's hot air balloon and fly it over the vast grassland, chasing the footsteps of the animals in the air. We are ready to take off at 5 o'clock in the morning before dawn, just to watch the sunrise on the grassland.
The sun came out in the early morning. The vast East African savannah is home to millions of animals. Can you see the crocodiles in the river? Hum. You have to zoom in to see them!
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi were traveling together in a hot air balloon, and there were two other people in a separate group. The advantage of this arrangement is probably that it is convenient for them to take pictures of each other, because you can't take a picture of yourself on a balloon.
This photo is the most satisfying: it has all the elements of color, light and shadow, and lines. There are a large group of animals running below. The hyena is the most timid one, and it will run away when it sees the balloon. The others basically ignore the falling clouds.
The balloon pilots are all white, and the passengers in this balloon are all white, with 16 people in a balloon. I personally feel that many white-run businesses are remnants of the colonial era. The white old man in Yunluo has been flying balloons for 15 years, once a day when the weather is good, and I heard that this is one of the most expensive balloon rides in the world.
Because this is the African grassland, the scenery is beautiful and the risk is high! There are very few opportunities to take this primitive flight. The take-off and landing feel very stable, much better than taking a plane.
The vast East African savannah will soon be the airspace of Tanzania. How does the old man control the direction of flight? Answer: He can only control the rise and fall, and the rest is up to the weather. So no matter how far he flies, he has to use a car to pull the ball back to its original position. Grandpa, don't land in a group of lions!
The sun rose in the early morning, and the shadow of the balloon was cast far away on the grassland.
The ball had landed, but it wasn't over yet. What was waiting for Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi was a champagne dinner on the prairie. A bunch of black people had been waiting on the prairie in their cars early in the morning, pulling tables, chairs, utensils, pots and bowls. The white people used the momentum of black people, and it felt that they were cheaper than livestock. It was probably more expensive to raise a British horse than to raise dozens of black people.
The average monthly salary of black people in Kenya is only over 40 US dollars, which is less than 400 RMB. Some do not even provide food and accommodation. The white people needed dozens of black people to provide logistics services for a meal during this flight. Compared with the money collected, the total amount of a flight was about 50,000 RMB, which was really less than a fraction. Apart from opening balloons and champagne to celebrate and collecting money, these white people did nothing.
After landing, within three minutes, about ten black people arrived and started to clean up the mess. They had been waiting in this direction early in the morning, and when the balloon was about to arrive, they drove after it.
When I saw the breakfast on the grassland in person, it was different from what I imagined. It was better than I thought. Standard Western tableware and a clean and tidy tabletop. Omelettes and fried meat were cooked to order by neatly dressed chefs.
They chose a shallow grass area with only knee-high grass and no trees within 500 meters to block the view. This way they could see if any wild beasts were coming, and Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi would not eat their fill and become breakfast for the lions.
Sitting on the vast grassland, eating Western food, drinking champagne, and admiring the beautiful and boundless prairie, this lifestyle invented by white people is all about enjoying life!
Take a photo of yourself on the prairie. Except for a few Chinese people at this table, the rest are white people, and the black people are only there to serve. The colonial style of the white people has not changed until now. In order to have a prairie breakfast for themselves, they have to let dozens of black people start working before dawn. I guess they are still happy to help African people solve employment problems!
They feel superior in front of yellow people, and the more they look at white people, the more they are dissatisfied! They still use Africans as slaves. They let Chinese people in to make money! But to be honest, white people are much more low-key in front of Chinese people now. Apart from the superiority of skin color, there are not many white people who can pretend in front of Chinese people.
There were no wild animals ahead, but two giraffes were spotted. The champagne imported from Italy tasted good. Eating Western food, drinking champagne, looking at the beautiful scenery, and enjoying the star-level service of the black waiters. Compare it with the Maasai village on the cow dung pile not far away that I saw yesterday. It feels like heaven and hell coexist. But heaven is for white people and hell is for black people.
Capiainray, the old white balloon captain, wrote a certificate to Yunluo to commemorate the balloon safari. Balloon Safari - Facing the rising sun on the vast Masai Mara grassland, chasing the wild animals, and floating in the sky with the wind. The primitive and exciting way of flying is quite addictive! (To be continued...)