[Sunday, February 8, 2015]
We arrived in Tanzania at the Kilimanjaro Airport – can’t
believe we’re in Africa. We saw
Mt. Kilimanjaro on the way in, as well as other evidence of volcanic activity
and the Great Rift Valley.
To get to the safari lodge, we flew an additional hour via a
bush plane to the Seronera airstrip – a small airfield in the middle of the
Serengeti. Each airplane seated 10
and we had 7 planes. We passed
over dry, arid land, a number of Masaai villages, gorges and craters, including
the Ngorogoro crater.
We arrived at the airstrip on the Serengeti at around 4:30
PM and then took safari land rovers to the Four Seasons Lodge. We did a game drive with about 6 people
per vehicle. We were able to
see an amazing amount of wildlife
– gazelle, topi, eagle, zebra,
ostrich, elephants, giraffe, hippos, impala, baboon, jackal, mongoose, and
others that I’m surely forgetting.
Perhaps the most inspiring was seeing a leopard up in an
acacia tree. Long tail dangling
down from it’s perch on the tree – it looked like it didn’t have a care in the
world. The driver said we were
very lucky to see a leopard – most people did not see one on safari.
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| Made it to Africa! |
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| Snow capped Kilimanjaro seen from the plane |
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| Fleet of bush planes to take us to the Serengeti |
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| Our pilot was a woman, which made me smile |
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| Maasai villages sprinkle the hillsides |
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| Maasai villages |
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| Landing strip at the Serengeti |
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| Gazelles |
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| Impala |
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| Hippopotamus pool with more than 30 adults and babies |
Maasai giraffe
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| Black-backed Jackal |
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| Haartebeast |
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| Can you spot the leopard? |
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