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The trials of travel in Tanzania
... out an entire compartment of 4 berths in order to stay together. No matter, as this at least gave us some sort of privacy.
We first had to catch a bus from Lusaka to get to the beginning of the Tazara line in Kapiri Mposhi, which was three hours away. Despite the advice of everyone we had spoken to, including the bus timetable itself, there was no scheduled 12 o'clock bus from Lusaka and we quickly had to make a plan with an alternative bus service. As ...
Lake Manyara, Day two
... greet us and then some more zebras. However as we continued along the road, Asad pointed out some tracks to us. On the road were quite a few fresh lion paw tracks and we followed these. Again, lions are extremely rare in this park and we were pretty happy with this find... The tracks led us to a clearing, but there were too many bushes and trees surrounding it and as much as we scanned the place with our binoculars, we couldn't ...
Exploring Ngorongoro
... into Lion King songs, I get these urges a lot!). Then there were zebra and more antelope, boring :) Shortly after we saw a large number of cars gathered around a particular spot - this normally means an "interesting" animal. We drove over and saw two lionesses lying in the grass, they were pretty thin so it was highly probable that they might consider hunting today. As the crowd saw some zebras in the distance everyone held their breath, but these ...
We head for Ngorongoro
... then that they realised, that we weren't predators. We saw plenty of giraffes, some more wildebeest, warthogs and even a cheetah. The lions were nowhere to be seen this morning. It was lovely just driving around as the day got going and it was nice to get back to a hot breakfast, since the morning had been pretty chilly. We packed up our tent and bags and hit the road. We had about one hour on the bumpiest road in the world, which in turn seemed to open up every ...
Serengeti Continued
... In fact today we had a successful day - we saw all Big Five in one day. After the leopard we saw a few more lions lying in the grass, a cheetah and some more hippos etc. Lunch was pretty late and we were both starving, but it was worth the wait. We had a little break and then it was back out again for more animal action - hyenas running, lions lazing around, a leopard sneaking in the long grass eyeing up some gazelles, elephants and plenty of birds. We went back ...