It was a good day overall, although under toned by my poor mood, in which we visited a few beautiful Kopjes. The first one we stopped at was enormous, pushed up millions of years ago from the bowels of the earth and belched up onto the surface of the world. It’s called ‘Gong Rock’ and it was presumably used by Maasai people for a long span of years. The view is another beauty, and it is called ‘The Gong Rock’ because if you hit the stones with another stone it makes a little echoing sound. The Maasai would use it to signal marriages or births before they were driven off the land when it became a National Park.
Next we drove for about 2 and half hours back to our campsite for lunch. After lunch we travelled out into the park again to see more Kopjes. In the morning, I forgot to mention, we saw a leopard relaxing in a tree and a pride of lions prowling around in the grass. They were both unreal! I’m glad that I got to see that.
The Kopjes that we went to after lunch had old paintings on them, the origins of which are thought to be from ‘Hazabe (sp?)’ people who used to live on them before the Maasai. The paintings are thought to be that people’s way of describing the arrival of the Maasai in their land. It is all very interesting.
