Unquestionably the Mara is the greatest savanna of Africa Safari. A bird's eye view of the action below stirs my expectation.

Within a few minutes of flying into the Mara, we spot an elephant and giraffes beneath, and on the banks of the Talek River, a pair of hippos somewhat visible from the water.

It's end of June, just after the long rains and the season before the great migration and the savanah is filled with tall golden green grass of different patterns.

As we drive through, we run into many Thomson's gazelles browsing by the road.

Farther, a mother cheetah with a rounded belly looks our way as it eats what remains of an antelope. Meanwhile the cub is still enjoying the meal, its nose reddish with blood.

"Cheetahs are diurnal. They hunt at daytime," explains the guide. "They are not as well-built as lions and leopards, hence they eat fast or else their kill will be taken. They can even be chased away by packs hyenas or vultures."

Seven minutes away, we come across another cheetah and her two cubs on an anthill. They view us suspiciously but the mother's ears pick the sound of the cowbells and she sits up alert, scanning the plains. The flock of Masai cows is far in the distant and not sensing any risk to her cubs, she slouches down again, at ease.

The lengthy rains have ended and the plains are full of long grass making it challenging for the smaller animals to graze. Mostly it is the big animals like giraffes and elephants and the bigger antelopes that can be easily seen around.

This makes hunting challenging for the cats and they wind up with strange strategies. It is not unique to see lions and cheetahs trying to climb trees and anthills to get a high vantage point for spotting prey.

Cheetahs claws do not retract like those of the other cats and would not often climb trees, but because they should locate prey, they'll try anything.

Cheetahs, unlike other predators, are not strong so they hunt minor antelopes, by chasing them to exhaustion as they go for the jugular vein of the prey to make an easy kill.

moments after our sighting of the second cheetah, we come across another cheetah Mother (Shakira).

"Shakira had five cubs but two were killed," the guide quips. "Cheetah mothers often keep moving when they have cubs to avoid lions and leopards killing their cubs."

Ahead a pride of twelve lions emerges comprising of a male, females and cubs. The male roars, the roar echoing around the plains, as it rolls over on its back. The females get up ready to prowl the plains.

"This is my best time in the Masai Mara," says the guide, "because there is less traffic and makes it easy to see wildlife."

In another week it will be July, and the plains will begin to fill with wildebeests as they cross from the Serengeti.

There will be a million plus wildebeests crossing the Sand River and going to the far end of the Mara before whirling to make the cyclic process. By the end of November, the whole grass will be eaten by the wildebeests and some 400000 zebras and other animals.

In one afternoon, within a radius of 10 km, we have spotted plenty of animals. What a way to begin our Masai Mara safari.

The next day, as the sun goes up in the horizon, the plains seem calmer. This day we go out in search for the big five.

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