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Serengeti, the endless plain.
Sleeping in the tent was perfectly fine. I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of hyenas and animals walking around. A couple of people got up at night and saw a giraffe walking through camp. Pretty interesting.
Pete has been fine to share with. He's quiet. Everyone else in the party is on extended travel. Aline from Ottawa sold her house and is on extended vacation traveling the world on her own terms. Bobbie and her husband Lloyd climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro before the safari and then are headed to Zanzibar. Birgitta and Skina, 2 Norwegian girls, are traveling extended and are going to India next. Pete spent quite a bit of time in New Zealand and then went through south Africa to Tanzania where he's doing the safari, climbing Kilimanjaro, and also visiting Zanzibar. Pete took time off his job as mgmt consultant for Deloitte in order to travel. He spent quite a bit of time in the US. He's headed back to Australia to take a more local job with Deloitte.
This morning we spent time in the Serengeti and were able to see some lions, including 3 males close together with a female, cape buffalo, warthog, dik dik, impala, zebras, giraffes, hartebeest, and gazelle. We're waiting next to see a cheetah. We won't have much chance to see a rhino here in the Serengeti but will have a better chance in ngorongoro. We also saw a zebra carcass and Lloyd was smart enough to see the content and resting lioness in the shade by the carcass.
The rhinos are the only ones left from the big five to see.
After the morning drive we were lucky to have a 2.5 hour break before we go out again at 3:30. Hopefully that also works out well.
The afternoon drive started slow. We drove around for awhile without seeing too many animals. We did see a warthog and a topi (a new animal for us). We saw a group of elephants, one bathing elephant, some hippos and a crocodile. Then it got really good again. We caught up to some other safari groups who were looking at a leopard in a tree and Deo was keen enough to spot 2 others in the tree and a carcass of a gazelle. Mostly in the shade. One of then climbed off the tree and disappeared. The other groups left and we moved up to get a better look at the leopards and carcass. Soon after, the leopard jumped back up the tree with a fresh kill. That was very exciting. Some very good shots of the leopard dragging the gazelle carcass up the tree. Very cool. Deo said leopards are usually alone so he thought this was a mother and 2 older cubs.
After we saw a flock of storks, a great sunset with clouds and trees including an elephant right on side of the road. I got some great sunset shots with the elephant and we also got great sunsets photos with a reflecting pool and a monkey in the tree. Oh and I forgot about the hippo with her baby.
Phenomenal day!
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