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Travel Blogs from Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Tanzania
Leopards & cheetah
This is a top pick! ... land and we're just visitors. We drove and drove in search of the wildebeest migration. No luck. The Serengeti is incredibly vast. I found myself getting really tired early that afternoon. No wonder - I haven't been ...
Morning drive in the Serengeti
This is a top pick! ... . We went back to camp and had breakfast, then drove through the Serengeti on our way to the crater rim in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The Serengeti was brimming with life as much on our way out as it was on our way in. We spotted a pair of jackals and ...
The never-ending plains
This is a top pick! ... plains and get close to the agama lizards that enjoying sunning themselves on the rocks. Now we had a long drive through the Serengeti to our campsite but fortunately for us our driver wanted to make a game drive out of it. We spotted some vultures ...
Wildebeest Migration
This is a top pick! ... closed so I couldn't get capture the depth. But I just sat there in awe. The migration moves clockwise through the Serengeti. One full loop every year. As we drove on to the front, they were being led by zebra. ...
further down into the wilderness
This is a top pick! ... half an hour to get to the next landing strip, from where we will continue in another safari vehicle. So we had to say goodbye to our guide here at the Ngorogoro. More on http://www.travelbysuitcases.com/journey/amazing-safari-tanzania ...
A full day of fabulous
This is a top pick! ... are doing a very early drive tomorrow morning, our last in the Serengeti, so I want to be awake and alert for it. The Serengeti is definitely living up to its reputation! Wolfi stayed up drinking with some of the others and when he came back to the tent ...
Camping along the migration corridor
This is a top pick! Hello everybody. Our first night in the Serengeti we pitched camp at Lobo. It's within sight of the Kenyan border. It's about 100 yards from the migration corridor. In the distance we could see herds of African buffalo running ...
Serengeti Scenes & Ngorongoro Crater.
This is a top pick! ... , a little sad that our safari was over but ready for the next adventure of Zanzibar. Footnote: Ngorongoro Conservation Area features in the book Unforgettable Places to See before you die, and with Serengeti National Park are UNESCO World Heritage ...
Another Dream Come True
This is a top pick! ... finally smashed into the ground a 4th and final time. After our final smash, we were dragged nearly 100 + feet across the plains, with Serengeti grass and dirt smashing into our faces. When it was all said and done, I had the Serengeti plains in my mouth, ...
Lake Manyara
This is a top pick! ... did. Once the sun set the air certainly felt much much cooler. Out came the fleece jacket for sure. Returning back to our room feeling 'stuffed' it was the perfect end to a perfect day. Now what will the Serengeti National Park spoil us with ...
A Childhood dream comes true
This is a top pick! Throughout my childhood and adult life, I have been fascinated with the Serengeti and its massive migrations. It all began with Lorn Greens New Wilderness on my parents TV and was escalated by our many trips to Bush Gardens. Many years later, I find ...
Serengeti
This is a top pick! ... confident we would. After all he had done this many times before. We left Lake Manyara and set off towards the Serengeti National Park. First though we had to drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Here there was more park fees to pay and yet ...
Safari!
... night. On the way our safari started early when we were surrounded by bicyclists, as apparently it was time for the Tour of Tanzania. Anyway, the campsite at Lake Manyara was rather cushy, what with electricity and a bar with a big screen TV showing the ...
Safari
... and a Land Cruiser (with pop top) for 5 days. We went to 3 conservation areas/national parks- Lake Manyara , Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti . The first and last nights we stayed at the Highview Hotel- seemed like a palace to ...
Day Eight
... birds. It was very peaceful and we enjoyed it immensely. We landed in a field of sorts in the middle of the Serengeti - that was a little surreal as we had seen a jackal chasing a zebra (who realized he was much bigger and, in turn, started ...
Heart of Africa
... -driving through this picturesque paradise. In the early afternoon, we packed our things and continued west through Tanzania, to the Savannah plains of the Serengeti. We stopped by a Masaai village where I learned some more about the ancient culture. I ...
Sep 14, 2011
The Land That Time Forgot
... south for the Serengeti and Ngorongoro. It was absolutely lashing it down (it rains quite a lot here) when we entered the Serengeti and suddenly the landscape completely changed from the vast and barren Mara to a scene out of Jurrasic Park. All we needed ...
Treasure
... . What we hadn't realized was that almost all of the driving was either in the Ngorngoro Conservation Area (NCA) or in Serengeti National Park. Leaving Lake Manyara in the rain, we were hopeful that it would be short-lived and that the visibility would ...
Cruising through the Serengeti
... so up close was just fantastic! And seeing the serengeti and how vast it is was awesome!! On the way back from the serengeti we passed through the ngorogoro crater, a stunning volcano that imploded a long way back and is now just a concentrated area full ...
Day Nine
... interesting than those prior as we took a non-park dirt road that wove through many local villages. This is the real Tanzania, not the tourism-laden forced environments that we had seen to date. We really saw how people lived, behaved and ...
Camping in Serengeti National Park
We took a new truck from Nairobi to Arusha, the town that would be our base for the 3 day Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater camping trip. It would also be my last stop with the African Trails tour, as I was set to stay with Mike, my friend from NZ, ...
No Fence in the Opposite Zoo
June 22 -24, 2008 After leaving the Maasai village, we journeyed on to Serengeti National Park. Although the mountains remained along perimeter, the savanna flattened as we entered the park. Serengeti is Maasai for endless prairie and in many ...
Start of safari
... food off us. The crater was extremely high so it was pretty cold up here, but this would soon change when we entered Serengeti National Park. As we entered the Serengeti, we popped open the roof of the jeep so we could enjoy the sunshine and look ...
Serengeti Sunrise
... rim looking down into the crater which we were to descend into in the morning. It was cloudy and cold on the rim unlike the Serengeti plains which were hot and clear. We pitched our tents among the zebra poo as there were many many zebras grazing on the ...
OH! What A Day!
A full day to explore the Serengeti: one which will be forever etched in my memory! We're going on a lion hunt, a cheetah hunt, a leopard hunt, a giraffe hunt, a hippo hunt, a crocodile hunt, a wildebeest hunt (not hard to find them!) and a hunt for ...
Day 33 (Serengeti National Park)
Today we started with a 06:30 game drive, a bit chilly for the first hour, then the magnificent sunrise over the Serengeti plains started to warm things up The great find of the morning was 2 big herds of elephants, with numerous youngsters, 1 ...
Day 31 (Serengeti National Park)
... That's what happens you poacher arseholes, you keep going till there are none left, vast plains of grass but no rhino, STOP POACHING YOU BASTARDS A few beers (Kilimanjaro and Serengeti), a magnificent supper, a good nights ...
The Serengeti & a Masaai village, Tanzania
... the lights off, cringe, and eat your food so you can get out of there. If you book a Serengeti safari: I really recommend Base Camp Tanzania. They have a great reputation, they're comparatively inexpensive, and they're so accommodating. They really ...
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
... giraffe, who feast on its leaves. We can spot wildlife from the plane and their numbers increase as we reach Serengeti National Park and begin our descent. Land Rovers shuttle us to our home for the next few days, the beautiful Serengeti ...