Safari in Tsavo NP, Kenya(游猎肯尼亚屠宰国家公园)-儿歌荟萃-万维博客-万维读者网（电脑版）

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		Safari in Tsavo NP, Kenya(游猎肯尼亚屠宰国家公园)	2020-03-19 15:43:23

2013-12-26

【Aiden in English】

Kenya is now one of my top favorite places. It's where I went on my first wilderness safari, right after Christmas Day.

The safari began with a two-hour drive from Mombasa to Tsavo National Park, the largest park in Kenya. That's when we climbed aboard a van. At first, the van didn't look like something that was fit for the Safari. But as if the van was trying to prove me wrong, the roof opened up, allowing the passengers to see and stand.

The first animal that came into sight was the black kite. The bird looked like an eagle and had a diet of snakes. It had brown feathers and a white head. The next animals couldn't fly and had different colors between the male and females. It was an ostrich. Its long slender legs were mechanical, pumping and powering the huge bird forward. The black male looked bigger than the plain beige female in size. To my surprise, a herd of gazelles came after a flock of ostriches went down the road. It was unfortunate to see how fast they were forgotten. As the van slowly moved along, I spotted something under a bush. Jackpot! It was a lion. This male lion had no mane and was cooling off in the bush's shade. From then on, it was a mixture of impalas, gazelles, kinds of deer, and hartebeests, a sort of sheep. In fact, I couldn't tell gazelles and impalas apart. The only reason they seemed different was that one had strait antlers while the other was crooked. Next, a troop of baboons revealed themselves to us. They seemed to be enjoying a nice morning snack of crunchy, juicy, tasty, yummy, and to us, disgusting ants. Just when I thought the safari had reached its limit, the driver spotted a parade of elephants. They were huge! The giants were amazing in the fields and everyone was fighting for a picture. Luckily for Mom, her high-tech camera caught a few shots before another car blocked the way.

It's unbelievable how these animals all had no restrictions or boundaries in life. To them, Tsavo National Park might seem like a place where they do what they want to do, and all humans seem like bystanders, looking.

【红霞译文】

目前肯尼亚是我最想去的地方，这也是为什么圣诞节刚过我立刻赶赴荒郊野外，第一次猎游非洲野生世界。

万里长征始于足下，我们从两个小时车程开外的首都蒙巴萨起步，一路上穿农舍走乡村，马不停蹄地朝肯尼亚最大的国家公园——屠宰国家公园方向奔去，进入公园改乘吉普车之后丝毫没有猎游的迹象，直到顶蓬大敞我们伸出车外登高远眺方觉身临其境。

首先映入眼帘的是黑鸢，这种鸟极像老鹰，爱吃蛇，除脑袋白色外，浑身棕毛；接下来看到的家伙不会飞，雌雄之间颜色不同大小不一，就是鸵鸟，其修长的细腿特别卖力，驱动大腹便便的身躯阔步向前；论块头，深黑色公鸵鸟要比浅棕色母鸵鸟大很多，出乎我意料之外，瞪羚紧步鸵鸟后尘。面包车继续缓缓前行，突然我发现灌木丛中有什么东西，哇塞我中头彩啦﹗一头没有鬃毛的公狮子正孤零零爬在那里纳荫乘凉，随后形似鹿的瞪羚和貌似羊的飞羚交相出现，其实我根本搞不明白两种羚羊之间的区别，只知道鹿角不同，瞪羚的偏直而飞羚的弯中带勾，接着几只狒狒浩浩荡荡迎面走来，看上去它们对令人难以下咽的酥脆、多汁、可口、美味的蚂蚁早茶独有情衷。我以为今天的猎游到此为止，哪曾想到司机又发现了一群大象，真可谓庞然巨物﹗它们目中无人，大摇大摆地逛街散步，大家争分夺秒赶紧抓拍触目惊心一刻，多亏妈妈把持高科技尖端镜头，在后续车队尚未到来之前迅速抓拍了几张精彩场面。

对这些野生动物来说，屠宰国家公园是一个天马行空自由自在生活的地方，而我们这些不速之客犹如过往浮云来去匆匆。

Today in History(历史上的今天)：

2012：Amalia Glacier, Chile(智利圣作潮汐冰川)

2009：新西兰达尼丁一南方的爱丁堡(Dunedin—Edinburgh of the South, NZ)

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