It's time to go to Africa to see animals again.

the reason why I thought of going to Masai Mara to see animals was naive. When a friend who once taught in Kenya talked about those days, his eyes lit up when he mentioned zebras. "Zebra buttocks are so beautiful that I can never get tired of seeing them!" To what extent will it be better to see?

but I didn't bother to do my homework ahead of time. Other people made friends and booked animal groups online early, but I was unprepared until the border town of Arusha. Especially when I lost my luggage by the airline there, I wanted to forget it, and I wanted to go with it.

maybe travel has always been good. That year, because of the influence of Ebola, there were not so many tourists, and you had to help, so you temporarily joined an animal group that matched perfectly at the same time.

it's a six-hour drive from Nairobi. Jerry, a tall and strong Kenyan uncle, is our driver and guide. Mr. Gao, the owner of the travel agency, is the head of the travel agency. The rest are Aunt long and her little nephew from Mianyang, Sichuan, a family of three from Tianjin, and I, a young woman who suddenly cut in, with a total of six guests.

every time we pass through a town, there are Maasai standing on the side of the road with wooden sticks, dressed in colorful plaid clothes, watching truckloads of tourists enter their usual places with long guns and curious eyes, desperately taking these animals into the camera. Those animals are nothing more than their friends, prey and neighbors.

except for the jungle style of decoration, the accommodation is no different from that of an ordinary hotel, with all the modern facilities, except that there is no wifi or TV in the house. The rooms are independent round wooden houses with mud-colored outer walls and wooden roofs, which are easy to hide in the prairie.

it is said that a designer, in order to build a hotel that perfectly blends with the surrounding environment and lives in harmony with animals, stayed in Masai Mara for ten years and finally found a unique place behind the big rocks. when the car drove out for a few minutes and then turned back, the hotel disappeared into the forest as if it had evaporated in an instant, let alone disturb the habitat of the animals.

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I live in a room with Aunt long and my little nephew Xuanxuan. The security guard added a small bed beside the big bed to sleep for me. The room also has a spacious terrace where you can sit in the quiet night overlooking the distant mountains, turn on the lights at night, or read quietly for a while.

every long trip, I always write a long martial arts novel, which is specially read on buses, trains, airplanes and other means of transportation. After reading "Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre" in Vietnam, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in Laos and "Divine Sculpture Heroes" in Thailand, this time it is "The Smiling、Proud Wanderer".

chivalry is also a kind of backpacking travel, but the luggage is lighter and simpler, a baggage is enough, and the mode of transportation is nothing more than riding and walking. If you encounter the town at night, you will find an inn to hit the top. Otherwise, you will light a fire in a temple in the wilderness and spread straw to sleep. People who travel around the world generally do not need to worry about money, do not ask for accommodation with WiFi, and no moments to send, which is much more natural and comfortable than modern travel.

after taking a bath before cutting off Scald, rubbing the skin that is fully absorbing the jungle oxygen factor, I sat under the lamp with kindle. I do not know how long, looking back, Auntie long and Xuanxuan also finished washing, each holding a book, leaning against the bed and reading each.

I can't help but feel warm in my heart. Traveling outside and living in the same room with so many people, I haven't encountered such a warm scene for a long time, and I suddenly feel that the cold night has become soft. When I got into the sleeping bag, Xuanxuan had already gone to sleep with a book on his pillow and said good night to Aunt long. When I woke up, I would welcome a large number of animals.

in August and September, at the time of the great animal migration, 1 million wildebeest, 150000 zebras and 350000 gazelles, starting from the scattered Serengeti prairie in the south, to the Masai Mara with abundant water and grass, they crossed the foothills of the Mara River, where crocodiles were watching covetously, and a long trek of nearly a thousand kilometers, full of crisis, would inadvertently cost their lives.

giraffe, lion, elephant, hippopotamus. Either way, it's easy to see it in domestic wildlife parks, so why fly over the mountains and rivers and come to Masai Mara to see it? We'll have an answer soon.

 the Mara River

early in the morning, Uncle Jerry took us into a roof-openable four-wheel drive jeep and drove into the area of the national park to look for "live" animals. Along the bumpy dirt road, leisurely grazing zebras began to appear on both sides, loose but consistent, like children of nature, only with the water to follow the wind, a few zebras pouted their proud buttocks at us in the shape of Bulk Up, the curve of black and white stripes is elegant, with golden luster, it is really the creator's work of art.

deeper, there are antelopes and elk leaping among thorns, lazily lying bison, forming an army of unhurried wildebeest, gray-crowned cranes standing on one leg like a specimen of birds, calves wading through the muddy waters behind elephants, and hippos lying in a pile on a continent in the middle of the Mara River, tilting their heads as if they all fell to the ground with heatstroke.

suddenly, Jerry picked up the walkie-talkie and said a few words, then turned around and accelerated in one direction. It seems that all the jeeps have heard the call, and all are coming from all directions, especially those full of photography enthusiasts, where drivers exchange information on the location of animals through walkie-talkies and seem to have found lions or leopards, and this is a modern version of the safari-- hunting trip.

sure enough, a cheetah was surrounded by more than 20 cars, eating the newly captured antelope with a mouth full of blood. This is the scene that everyone is most looking forward to, like the law of the jungle, fighting and death, speed and blood, as shown in Animal World, but this time it is not illusory.The TV screen, the cruel laws of nature spread out in front of your eyes.

but isn't this kind of viewing ridiculous? They can run freely on the prairie, unlike animals in cages, but we are displayed in large moving tin boxes and watched by the pure eyes of those creatures.

 those seemingly thoughtful eyes focus on one place. They are alert, resolute and peaceful, they seem to roam aimlessly, and they have a purposeful direction of migration. As "out of Africa" says, "No kind of poultry can be as quiet as a virgin." Civilized people are no longer willing to be quiet, and only by learning from wild animals can they fill this gap. "

I admit that coming to Masai Mara is not only to empathize with the freedom, but also to enjoy the peace, especially in this summer when tourists have been greatly reduced because of the panic of Ebola, there is nothing better than the heat of leaving the east coast to blow the cold breeze of the desolate prairie.

Jerry drove the car under a big tree, but the sparse branches and leaves could not block out the sun at all. For lunch, there were lunchboxes prepared by the hotel, hamburgers, drumsticks, juice and small cakes. A family in Tianjin pulled out tea eggs and Wujiang mustard as if by magic. "I cooked it at home, and you can have one too," he said. "

this has always been the case when Chinese people go overseas. They are most afraid of not getting used to it and are greedy for a mouthful of hot tea. They wish they could carry a thermos bottle on their back. I used to hear my grandparents say that when they went on a trip to a nearby small town, they carried a bag of Fried rice noodles and could eat Scald, just as the Japanese still bring a self-made bento when they go hiking. Eating mustard with tea eggs, I went overseas for so long that I felt homesick for the first time.

there are no animals in front of me at last, only the sky, the continuous mountains, the endless grasslands, and the lonely acacia trees stand in front of them, and there is nothing around them, which is so beautiful and beautiful.

among those restless and surging animals, a silent, unshakeable tree has unparalleled mysterious power. Later, tired of flocks of wildebeest all over the mountains, I felt that trees were more beautiful than animals, and they stood out because they were less, unlike ordinary trees, which lost their sense of existence and recognition in the forest.

Jerry pointed to the mountains in the distance and said, "over that mountain, you will reach the border of Tanzania." Animals are so nice. You don't need a visa. You can go whenever you want. "

Freedom, this is the greatest charm of horse racing.

the lines of "Rhino in Love", which I skipped in an instant in my mind, turned out the recording and listened to the last hoarse sound of the road.

"Don't be afraid, I will take you on the marsh, over the mountains and forests, over the clouds and the sea, across the sun, beyond the light clouds, over the boundless limits of the starry world, above life, ahead is the endless African prairie." The setting sun hangs on the giraffe's long neck, and everything glows with life when the rainy season comes. "

this is the picture described in the script.

I asked Jerry, "can I see a rhino?"

"there are only 46 heads in this prairie, and it is easier to see them in Nakuru, and there are four or five extremely rare white rhinos."

"I don't have time to go there, but I really want to see rhinos!" I took out a giveaway from watching the play, a red rhino key ring, and specially brought it to its African prairie. This is a Tula that can not be easily compromised to the world in my heart.

"I'll try to find it for you, maybe 1 in 46." Jerry comforted me.

finally did not see the real rhino, maybe Tula found his favorite white female rhino, the two went to the end of the world for love.

not far away, several vultures circled around the dead wildebeest body, and the long-dead zebra meat by the side of the road was hollowed out, leaving only a beautiful sun-dried striped skin on the empty skeleton, and the sharp black-and-white contrast had faded, an abandoned color.

the sky darkens, and when the wind blows, the white things scattered in the grass will be exposed, the bones of dead animals, the artistically weathered skulls of bison, and sharp saber-sharp ribs poking out of the shallow grass.

it's not a pity that you can't see a rhino. If the purpose is too clear, the trip will become impetuous and boring again. Even if you see it, it is the excitement of that moment, a kind of self-satisfaction of arrival and completion.

whatever, really, the unknown is so cunning that when I come to see zebras and rhinos, what I like is a tree that is often neglected as a background.

it grows alone near the equator ten thousand kilometers away. Even if you breathe the fresh air of Kyoto, as soon as you close your eyes, you can immediately feel the prairie time flowing quietly in another space.

zebra buttocks are like this, and they are really good-looking.