Reflecting on My Kenya Tour: What I Wish I Had Done Part 1

Because of budgetary and time constraints, there are some things which I wish I could have done on my Kenya tour, and which I didn’t get to do.
One such thing is a tour to the country’s Maasai Mara, and maybe a detour to the neighboring Tanzania’s Serengeti national park – both being things that almost every serious person who tours Kenya gets to do. The hallmark of a visit to the Maasai Mara is usually the opportunity to witness the migration of the wildebeest, but unfortunately the time I made my Kenya tour, as I was told, was past the wildebeest migration season. As I learnt from the ‘travel Kenya’ resources that I had read before the trip, the wildebeest migration is usually a seasonal affair, and I was certainly not on season.
So spectacular is the wildebeest migration, I was made to understand, that it has been enumerated as one of the seven modern wonders of the world. According to an article on the subject that I came across somewhere on the Internet, there are people who tour Kenya every year with the sole aim of witnessing the wildebeest migration – and this category includes the high and the mighty of the world, who usually visit anonymously – entering the country quietly, visiting the Maasai Mara and then leaving without much fanfare.