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Serengeti National Park Slideshow
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Serengeti National Park
Travel Blogs from Serengeti National Park, 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 ...
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! ... . As we get on its just us and the pilot, no other passengers on board. We have a private plane to bring us to the Serengeti. It will take only about half an hour to get to the next landing strip, from where we will continue in another safari vehicle. So ...
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! ... Hotel Flamingo, 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, and with Serengeti National Park are UNESCO World Heritage ...
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 ...
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 ...
Morning drive in the Serengeti
... . 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
... 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 ...
A full day of fabulous
... 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 ...
Safari!
... dinner and drank some beers before going to bed. SATURDAY- Our longest driving day, we drove from Lake Manyara, through Ngorongoro, to Serengeti Park. On the way we stopped at the Masai Village. I wasn't too keen on going there but everyone else was so ...
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
... would say relaxing, not really ever my appropriate choice of descriptor) day thus far as we traveled from our camp in the Southern Serengeti to our final nyumba, located in the North adjacent to the Kenya border. The camp is very similar to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Camping in the Wild....for real!
... experience for me. When I watch it on TV I feel bad for the gazelles. Seeing it in real life, I must admit, I was cheering for the lion. It was definitely the highlight of the Serengeti, we really got to see wild animals in action! ...
The long long road
... consisted of foods we would eat only in desperation. For them it was like winning the lottery and they we so grateful. We entered Serengeti and at the entrance, we picked up a tire to haul to a car that had a flat. Those poor folks sat in the ...
Did you know an alligator eats once a year?
Breakfast with our friends and then said good-bye. We are spending one more day in Serengeti but will meet up with them tomorrow. Met Jeff at 8AM and went to the park center. They have a small outside walking museum with lost of fun ...
More amazing animals
... in future to my surroundings. We leave for the afternoon and are treated to an amazing display of cloud formation over the Serengeti. With rain threatening but never eventuating I could not imagine having to pack up these tents in the rain or whilst they ...
Hakuna Matata
... Mara which looks like short wheat fields in Saskatchewan. For these reasons, plus its vast expansiveness, game viewing in the Serengeti is a lot more challenging. We found out later from the camp staff that the rainy season is starting in the Serengeti ...