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Tanzania 2014 Nrorongoro Crater Day 1

Tanzania is in eastern Africa, just below Uganda and Kenya, and on the Indian Ocean. At the end of our eleven day/ten-night Zambia safari, we flew from Livingston to Johannesburg for an overnight stay. The next day we flew to Arusha, Tanzania via Nairobi. Arriving at Arusha Coffee Lodge at around 8 pm, we spent two nights and one full day relaxing there before our next adventure. On the morning of 28 August 2014, our driverguide, Nelson, picked us up at ACL in his 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser for the trip to Ngorongoro Crater. After three nights and two full days in the Crater while staying at Lemala Ngorongoro Camp, we flew by Coastal bush plane out of Manyara airstrip to Kogatende airstrip for four nights at Sayari Mara Camp in the remote NW corner of the Serengeti near the Mara River and the Kenyan border. All arrangements for our requested Tanzanian safari beginning with our arrival at ACL until our return to Arusha and departure from ACL on 5 September 2014 were made by Africa Travel Resource.

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pelican on approach for the hippo pool
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pelican on approach for the hippo pool

  • Bull Cape buffalo giving us the "buffalo look".
  • There is a vulture nest in the top of this tree.
  • Lappetfaced vulture.
  • No idea what kind of tree this is - too many possibilities in the tree book to tell for sure, but I just liked the look of it out on the savanna. Note what appears to be a hamerkop nest in the lower central area of this tree. Strange, because hamerkops are herons that feed on fish and frogs at water's edge. There does not seem to be much open water in this area. Maybe there is a creek on the other side of this tree.
  • The famous Ngorongoro Crater hippo pool. Lots of birds and mammals in this area.
  • Ok, here they are - the hippos, complete with the resident on-duty grey heron.
  • Six blackcrowned night herons, one coming in for a landing in the reeds at the edge of the hippo pool.
  • Three yellow-billed storks. While the two on the left are not exactly immature, the one on the right appears to be bigger and older.
  • The somewhat younger yellow-billed storks give way to the older bird.
  • yellow-billed stork
  • Here, above the hippo pool, we have the sacred ibis, so named due to its regard by Egyptian Pharaohs as a god.
  • This blackcrowned night heron just caught a frog.
  • pelican on approach for the hippo pool
  • pelican picks out a landing area in the hippo pool
  • pelican with flaps and landing gear down on final approach
  • another successful landing and flight in the hippo pool
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  • A saddle-bill stork sailing over the hippo pool.
  • The saddle-bill stork turns for a landing.
  • A saddle-bill stork about to land at the Ngorongoro Crater hippo pool.
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