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Tanzania 2014 Serengeti Mara Day 3

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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Sliding glass doors open to the Serengeti savanna, no one or other tents in sight.
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Sliding glass doors open to the Serengeti savanna, no one or other tents in sight.

  • Giraffes sleep for only about four hours a day while resting on their knees.
  • 10:32 in the morning and it is starting to warm up. After hunting in the evening and night, Lions normally spend a lot of time each day resting in the shade. This lioness has a comfy and secluded spot where there may still be a breeze.
  • As long as we stay in the Land Cruiser, even tho it is open-sided, she will not recognize us as soft and squishy humans, or so I have been told. In any event, we had lionesses brush the sides of our vehicle as they sauntered past with no apparent notice of its occupants.
  • Mara River Serengeti savanna - termite mounds, a creek cut and a lone acacia tree.
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  • Wildebeest grazing on the Serengeti plains.
  • A somewhat more challenging creek bed crossing. Albert handed this one slowly and safely, as always. In fact, we had to drive thru this one at lest four times over the course of the three full days and two half-days that we were in the area.
  • Hippos hauled out on the bank of the Mara River at not quite noon time.
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  • Spur-winged Plover on the banks of the Mara River. Can't see any spurs? They are visible when the wings are open, which is mainly during flight.
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  • Sayari Mara Camp on the horizon as we head back for lunch.
  • Tent #2, our home for four nights in the NW corner of the Serengeti near the Mara River. A top-notch lux camp in every respect - suburb and spacious accommodations (see following photos), excellent food (Nancy is a vegetarian), outstanding service, the best guides and vehicles, elegant public spaces including an infinity pool cast around a large rock and overlooking the savanna, bountiful and stunning game that sometimes wanders thru the Camp, etc, etc, and so forth.
  • Our large bedroom, complete with 2-way radio to camp staff.
  • Sliding glass doors open to the Serengeti savanna, no one or other tents in sight.
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  • Double sinks carved out of live stone, plenty of hot water for bath and shower (center silider), toilet nook behind the slider on the right, 7x24 electricity.
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  • Black-eyed Susan, a creeper.
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