Well, today's post won't be loaded with photos because we are camping in the middle of the Serengeti and there is not 3G available for my iPhone. So photos will have to wait until I get back to Arusha either tomorrow night or the next morning.
We drove up to the rim of Ngorongoro crater yesterday and camped on the rim of the crater at Simba camp. During the night some large animals passed through the camp, not sure what they were but I could hear them brusing us against my tent as they passed. We got up at 0500 and had camp broken by 0600. We drove down into the crater and were there for sunrise. Ngorongoro really lives up to its reputation. We saw at least a dozen lions, but all were sleeping off big bellies from a recent kill. Looked like a Thanksgiving food coma. We also saw several Elephants, tons of Zebra and Wildebeest several Ostrich, a couple Elan, a bunch of Hyena, some Jackal, and several Hippos and Warthogs.
After lunch we left Ngorongoro and headed North to Serengeti. The two parks share a boundary so even when you are traveling from one area to another it's like you are still on a game drive. While in transit we saw several Giraffe. We got to Serengeti around 3 in the afternoon and then did a game drive on our way to the campsite. We had the extreme good fortune of finding a Cheetah with a couple tiny cubs. The cubs are only two or three weeks old and still really fuzzy. We also saw a nice herd of Elephants including a little calf that is still nursing. We arrived at our campsite right at sunset. I'm doing a private 4x4 for these two days to make it easier to shoot with the RED. The rest of the group is in another 4x4. Tomorrow morning we will do another game drive in the 4x4s and then head back to Arusha where our Safari Truck is waiting
No comments:
Post a Comment