Category Archives: Tanzania

African Safari – Update # 7 on Posting Progress

African Safari – Update # 7 on Posting Progress Today’s postings get us to the half-way point of the Serengeti portion of our travels in East Africa.  The following posts are new, revised or have had numerous photos added to … Continue reading

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New York, New York

Heading home from our travels to Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa and now back in North America after about 24 hours of travel time. Been fingerprinted, frisked, full body scanned and interrogated numerous times in the past 24 hours … Continue reading

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African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – Exploring the crater floor

African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – Exploring the crater floor We survived the tricky driving down the side of the crater walls and found ourselves on a rather flat piece of the earth with wildebeest and zebra being the predominate … Continue reading

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African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – Getting into the crater

A nice view to wake up to… African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – Getting into the crater Sunrise over the Ngorongoro Crater is an exciting time as the lower reaches of the crater slowly come to life and the sun’s … Continue reading

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African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – A short walk outside

African Safari – Ngorongoro Crater – A short walk outside After a morning of safari in the Serengeti we traveled to our lodge for the evening on the rim of the Ngorogoro crater. I was hoping to stretch my legs … Continue reading

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African Safari – Serengeti – Lion Cubs

African Safari – Serengeti – Lion Cubs Our first interesting sighting of the morning was a large hippo meandering across an open space on its way back to a pool of water where it would spend the rest of the … Continue reading

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African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive – Leopard sighting

Juvenile Gabar Goshawk (Melierax gabar) African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive – Leopard sighting For those who are following this series of blogs, the last blog entry for the morning drive ended with the question: Lunch? or Leopard? Tough … Continue reading

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African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive part two

Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive part two We moved from the grasslands into a damper area where we were able to observe some wading birds including the Black-winged Stilt and the Goliath Heron. At … Continue reading

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African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive, part one

Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) African Safari – Serengeti – Morning Drive This morning out on the Serengeti, we were all prepared to stay on our toes and keep a close look-out for the elusive Leopard.

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African Safari – Serengeti – Getting Going Again

African Safari – Serengeti – Getting Going Again I thought that I might like to get the “Sunrise over the Serengeti” shot this AM but I guess ten days of safari was beginning to wear me down and the sunrise … Continue reading

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