Wogakuria Camp
Travel Blogs from Serengeti National Park
Day 3
... quickly noticed and ran away. The cheetas decided not to follow and started to cross between the cars. Everyone was standing in the cars, which are open roofed, taking pictures as they crossed. But one of the cheetas jumped onto the roof of one car. The people inside were cowering down inside the car with the cheeta standing above looking inside. Everyone was screaming but the guides said cheetas are just nosy and there was nothing to worry about. The guides themselves were taking ...
Sleepless in the Serengeti
... but I love me some big cats! Our hard work was rewarded though by seeing our first leapords, two of them, silhouetted in a tree. Another group spotted one less than a mile from our camp. That day we saw some new animals as well, including hyrax, topi’s,
and hartebeest. We stumbled upon a hyena den that was really amazing, and I got my first close look at hyena young and their laugh was extremely eerie. That night one of my tent-mates saw a cheetah silhouetted in the ...
Walk with the Animals, Talk with the Animals......
... middle of nowhere", identifiable by their spooky, white, face paint. Younger boys have a lot of responsibility with herding. They seem so small to be "in the middle of nowhere" by themselves, but by observation appear perfectly capable.
Clips from the Serengetti: At our tented camp, zebras---beautiful and mysterious in the moonlight---graze outside our tent. An armed guard scans the brush with a flashlight as he escorts us from the ...
Take a walk on the wildside...
... massage' which is the result of driving along bumpy tracks..........LEOPARD !!!!!!!!!!!!!! argh, amazing, just there sitting in a tree over the way, God knows who spotted it, only Vikki and her x70 optical zoom managed to get it up close on film. That's now the 'Big Five' we've seen (Buffalo, Rhino, Lion, Leopard and Elephant).
Carrying onwards we saw Helmeted Guinea Fowls, Redbuck, Hippo, Grey Heron, Vulture....CHEETAH and two cubs!!!!!!!! ...
Serengeti
Serengeti
With great anticipation we arrived at the northern entrance gate to the park. This is the SERENGITI after all. The gate is so utterly unimpressive. This obviously makes no difference to the parks popularity. One can gather this from the number of vehicles' parked there waiting to go in. I could not help but compare it to parks in SA like Kruger Park or Ado Elephant park.
Here we are! In THE Serengeti!
At first the country ...