(beautiful Serenghetti sunset)Picking up where we left off ...
The morning after we returned from Kili, we headed off on safari with Good Earth, the same company that took us up the mountain. We piled into the 4x4 and headed off for lake Manyara, famous for its tree-climbing lions. We saw four lions in a single tree, plus lots of elephants and other animals, before we headed to our campsite, which was filled with annoying American teenagers talking all night long.
The next morning, we headed off on the 5-hour drive to the Serenghetti to start the next part of our safari. We did a 5 hour game drive, seeing lots of elephants (can you tell what my favorite animal is?) before we headed back to camp for dinner. Later that night, the hyenas that frequent the camp stole our tablecloth (and, we suspect, ate our butter, which vanished). We did another drive in the Serenghetti the next day, and stayed at the same campsite.
The morning after we returned from Kili, we headed off on safari with Good Earth, the same company that took us up the mountain. We piled into the 4x4 and headed off for lake Manyara, famous for its tree-climbing lions. We saw four lions in a single tree, plus lots of elephants and other animals, before we headed to our campsite, which was filled with annoying American teenagers talking all night long.
The next morning, we headed off on the 5-hour drive to the Serenghetti to start the next part of our safari. We did a 5 hour game drive, seeing lots of elephants (can you tell what my favorite animal is?) before we headed back to camp for dinner. Later that night, the hyenas that frequent the camp stole our tablecloth (and, we suspect, ate our butter, which vanished). We did another drive in the Serenghetti the next day, and stayed at the same campsite.
Here are some lions "on honeymoon" as our tour representative so politely put it --
After the Serenghetti, we headed for the Ngorongoro crater, an old volcanic crater that's around 270 square kilometers and is filled with animals. We saw lots of cool stuff, including a group of cape buffalos (part of the "Big Five," which includes elephants, lions, rhinos, and leopards, grouped together as the five hardest-to-kill animals in Africa) chasing a lion, which ran right up to the car in front of us, hiding and panting to catch his breath. We saw hundreds of zebras and wildebeast, and barely missed what we thought would be a certain kill -- six female lions were stalking a group of wildebeast, and one almost pounced until a car full of idiots with a bigger idiot driver broke her line of sight and she gave up (GRR).
This morning, we headed back to Arusha, where we settled in to the Impala Lodge and had dinner at the nice restaurant upstairs. The plan for tomorrow is to go to the Rwanda genocide tribunals for the morning, then head to Nairobi on the bus in the afternoon to visit Justin's friend Kevin.
More later!
Rach
1 comment:
andrew, sara wants to know what the two lions are doing in the photo?
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