Wednesday 18 March 2009

Jambo

Well – I’ve been trying to get the energy up to write a travelogue of our Tanzanian safari.
Its not going to happen...
We visited Serengeti, Ndutu Reserve, Ngorongoro crater, Lake Manyara and Taranagire National Parks as well as doing a village walk, and visiting with Masaai

In short we had a fantastic time

Highlights include

  • Seeing a lioness catch a baby wildebeest
  • Seeing thousands of wildebeest (not the great migration but still indescribable)
  • Watching a cheetah and her 4 juvenile cubs patiently hunt and eventually catching a bushbuck
  • Seeing a bush baby on a night drive
  • Laughing at a baby baboon who kept falling off a log
  • Ballooning over the Serengeti
  • Baby elephants playing trunk tug of war
  • Lions mating (all over in 2 seconds)
  • A lioness grooming herself – very much a la Dobby
  • Seeing a leopard in a tree
  • Being visited by a herd of eley in the car park leaving the Serengeti
  • Watching a young male lion Nev style leap into action too soon and spoil the good stalk the lionesses had set up on an unsuspecting zebra
  • Some amazing sunrises and sunsets
  • Crashing a wedding during our village walk – we even made it into some official photos
  • Swimming in a pool next to zebra and impala
  • Baobob with leaves on – they look like broccoli!










Most of the photos are on http://www.flickr.com/photos/hazelon/

But our monthly limit has been exceeded and there are still elephant pics from Tarangire

If anyone is thinking of going on Safari – we can recommend our agents - http://www.bush2beach.com/

2 comments:

gemblina said...

Wow :)
xx

Miranda Boers said...

Look fantabulous! One of the many things Ron and I would love to do - but now we've got kids!! (yes, life ends, along with enjoying such things!). Thanks for the tip of the agent. You really are living the African life visiting such wonderful places! M xx