Today’s highlight occurred right after we broke camp this morning. We were retracing our drive all the way back to Karatu, our starting point where we met John Mahu, right before Ngorogoro. On our road back to the main gate – still in the Serengeti – we suddenly found a lone male lion crouched in […]

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Animals seen (new in bold)  The now typical combined herds of gnu, far less zebra though with them A few dozen scattered herds of Thomson Gazelle  Two or three dozen elephants, including four babies born in the past month or two A family of a couple dozen banded mongoose 14 Topi antelopes in a family […]

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Animals seen (new in bold): At least 5 thousand gnu, running through a river valley with At least a thousand zebra, including adorable brown-striped baby zeebs A few hundred more Thomson gazelle, mostly at a distance though vs yesterday A hundred or so “Superb Starlings” with glorious iridescent plumage A couple dozen Masaai giraffe A […]

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Animals seen: Massive herds of wildebeest/gnu Almost as massive herds of zebra  Fairly large groups of Cape Buffalo  Scattered groupings of Thomson gazelle A dozen or so warthogs and their adorable pint sized piglets Two troops of baboons 11 hippopotamus (hippopotamuses?hippopotami?)  5 lions (one male)  3 elephants  2 cokes hartebeest  One Grant gazelle hiding out […]

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So there we were –  we’d just finished a nice buffet lunch in Arusha with our new driver and constant companion for the next 8 days,  Paul,  and given him the other 50% of the tour fee for the the safari. He’d just exchanged those cash dollars for literally several million Tanzanian shillings.  We were […]

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It was an embarrassing dinner. Using the newfound Power of the Internet, Christine and I found a restaurant just north of the Millennium towers called Rose Garden that had pretty good Google maps reviews. Side note – I’ve so far been very impressed with the diligence of business owners,  putting a dozen or so photos […]

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