Ol Seki Hemingways Mara, Kenya, Reopens with a New Look
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Along the Mara River, where tourists watch as wildebeest and zebras famously pound across gushing waters during the Great Migration, there’s not a car in sight. Even outside of migration season (July to October), the Masai Mara National Reserve is usually crowded with safari vehicles. But this year, the animals have had the grassy plains almost to themselves.
I hadn’t intended on traveling to the Mara during COVID. A trip to Kenya during a pandemic–are you crazy? How irresponsible! But when South Africa (where I’m from and was traveling to) announced it wasn’t allowing people in from high-risk countries, I made a plan to spend 10 days quarantining in a low-risk country before entering my homeland.