Maasai mara
On July 29 I left Safari (Incidentally, the word safari Kiswuahili language translated into English, means journey).
the outset I must clarify that it was not an easy decision to make, since obviously I have little money, and less to spend sightseeing. In fact, since the money was destined for the month of August is over, I have nothing, nothing, nothing. Moreover, it is noteworthy that, according to the agreement signed before coming to Happy Home, I can not travel for pleasure as currently operated as a volunteer, that is, I have to wait until end my period of activity to take me one or two weeks to go.
Anyway, I decided to go to Safari for a simple reason, as I said Ababu (The manager of the orphanage) "It's your golden opportunity" , and yes, yes he was.
July 28 Happy Home they had reached a group of five Belgian (To make mention of something really striking, the majority of tourists arriving in Kenya are Belgians, why, do not know) that had the desire to safari, but beware, safari in the sense that we in the West know, which means, going to see lions, tigers, monkeys. As several people had Safari said that the group was making much more economical and fun, I was, plain and simple. I did something I never would have done in Venezuela, go with strangers on a journey which would necessarily have to sleep in tents. Like, what did it, I can assure you that this was not the first "madness" that would make this trip (I put the word crazy in quotes because to me, that word is inhospitable, and sometimes even the dictionary can easily escape my personal experiences. I hope you understand me in that sense, I like watching TV and reading books, just the fact that it has been five months in Kenya is crazy in itself.) Then
a night in Stellah, Belgians, I, the daughter of Ababu (The manager), and two men working at Happy Home (Uncles) undertook road to Maasai Mara . In the three-hour journey to our final estimate, we had to plow millions of obstacles variations in shades and colors: holes, pits, rocks, river water, rainwater, etc. The van we were traveling into opportunities seemed that he might drop by some path, exploding in pieces, or finally, and type Comic Strip, opened in four parts and be in the chassis.
However, nothing came out (or at least no more than a few scares in different degrees and sequences).
And we, we got safely in what was to be an earthly paradise.
As we approached the front door (one of the few facilities manufactured by human hands, a part of a large hotel) where we would have to pay about $ 40 to spend two days and one night in this area that seemed out of the Comic Strip "The Lion King", but much more vast, far more incredible, more natural, human, shocking ... or simply indescribable, because, when trying to award it an adjective, I feel I do not minimize the challenge that splendor, for trying tell a word that causes a single image, precisely, you run out of words, and I apologize to you, but it is not easy, that to describe such beauty, and less for me, I'm not a poet, and that little I know about the topic.
ever told someone I loved that the exact location of the unknown is that where the sky is nourished by the sea, compressing into a single infinite line of Danzare devastated by not being able to be achieved by the human eye, a line is not past and not future, a time line is, yes, but it is present, it is now, it's moment of life, death, everything and nothing too.
However, at this time (invaluable, by the way), that line was not formed by water the sea (as I was accustomed to seeing in Venezuela), but by an infinite pure land and could not enjoy my senses at once.
Never in my life seen such a pure land, so full of everything, so full of nothing.
No, not a single building to the outside view of the tourists who lived with the speed of the wind in the palm (I could not even see one hotel), not a shred of Cosmopolitan world we live in so many of us, had expressed no human hand in real estate (many jeep full of tourists, of course), and no, there was no interruption between my eyes and unwavering that point of infinite beauty.
And excuse me if I seem repetitive, but Maasai Mara is so big, so pure so blessed that I find it hard not to mention it again and again.
Maasai Mara is heaven on earth, the earthly paradise of which many speak, is silent for the spirit, is oxygen to the lungs, is light, brightness, breeze, is a storm of hope, and is also A look at the reality of the world we once had and we decided to leave, or, better, change.
I think I will never forget such a landscape ... the words, whatever they are, fall short, but if you ask me or ask me to use one word to refer to the Maasai Mara, I would say, GENESIS .
be there was truly amazing ... it was a dream I never dreamed, and was the reality that I never imagined. And if anyone reading these lines have the desire to reconnect with himself, thinking and giving, Maasai Mara is an excellent choice.
In Safari, I saw zebras, giraffes, buffalos, monkeys, hippos, crocodiles, hyenas, elephants, lions, and many more ... animals in their natural habitat, not behind bars in a zoo.
The animals were at home, a land as vast as dreams and as caring as he allows that dreams come true.
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