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Tanzania 2014 Serengeti Mara Day 1B

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 (one full day) relaxing there before our next adventure. On the morning of 28 August 2014, our guide and driver, 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. Albert Alfred Lucas was our guide and driver. All arrangements for our requested Tanzanian safari from our arrival at ACL through our return to Arusha and departure from ACL on 5 September 2014 were made by Africa Travel Resource.

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Ruppell's Vulture.
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Ruppell's Vulture.

  • They trade places so that the aggressor has the slightly higher ground.
  • Ready for the next shot by the other giraffe.
  • They each have so far developed only one technique of fighting, but this shot lands on the back of the first giraffe.
  • OK, trading places again.
  • A miss by a wide margin, as the defender saunters out of the way. The whole encounter has been in sort of slow motion, which can be appropriate for sparing.
  • High noon, and the vultures are gathering.
  • Ruppel's (cream-colored bill) and White-backed (black bill) Vultures.
  • Typical Mara River scene. See the center of this photo in the next shot.
  • Hard to make out in the previous picture, two Nile Crocodiles out for a tan. They can grow up to 20 feet in length, weigh over a ton, and live 100 years.
  • A gathering in the shade of Ruppell's Vultures.
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  • Ruppell's Vulture.
  • 12:12 pm and the hippos are snoozing on the Mara River bank, except for one youngster playing in the water.
  • Lunch time in the dining room, lounge and bar inside a giant tent in our area at Sayari Mara Camp. There is another dining room, lounge and bar of a somewhat different design in a multi-room tent for a second area in this Camp.
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  • After lunch, we relaxied at Camp during the hottest part of the day. It's 3:29 pm and time to head off on an afternoon safari. Photographed from the dining room, this Silverbird flycatcher is waiting on a scrub acacia branch for the next meal to try to fly by.
  • Two Bush Hyrax posing on an old tree.
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  • Little Bee-eater waiting for a bug to fly into range.
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