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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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Cape buffalo, keeping an eye on the shrike.
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Cape buffalo, keeping an eye on the shrike.

  • All of the following photos were shot in Ngorongoro Crater. Here is the spotted hyena.
  • Spotted hyena society is female dominated. They are larger than the males. The den is often appropriated from an aadvark or warthog.
  • Plains zebra. Ears forward in an alert status.
  • Common fiscal, a pied shrike.
  • Cape buffalo, keeping an eye on the shrike.
  • female Grant's gazelle
  • male Grant's gazelle
  • Coke's hartebeest
  • Plains zebra. The eat the longer grasses, preparing the savanna for wildebeest and other short-grass grazers.
  • Zebras have excellent eyesight, hearing and sense of smell.
  • Kori bustard, the heaviest of all flying birds.
  • Lioness with cubs.
  • Aunt Ruth, sister of the lioness with cubs.
  • Lioness and one of her cubs.
  • Oh, yes, even tho we got an early start, entering the Crater at around 6:45 am, by now at 8 am the hordes of tourists had congregated wherever significant wildlife was to be found. So here, we have nine vehicles surrounding this lioness with cubs, who seem oblivious to the whole scene.
  • Lioness and three cubs getting a drink.
  • Aunt Ruth on the alert.
  • Aunt Ruth in her observation posture, on the lookout for brunch.
  • Moma lion and the three cubs confronting a tree-full of retreating baboons.
  • Breakfast stop in the middle of the road.
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