Category: Tanzania

This is the western part of the Serengeti and we have our last two night booked for here. As we drive west we don’t see the wildebeest herds, they have not quite reached this area in their final push for the Mara. What has reached here is large clouds of…

We wake up and as we go out for breakfast two of the tiny dik dik antelopes are grazing just outside our door. Nice start to the day. We fill up the tanks for the exhausting activity of sitting in the vehicle and looking out the window and we are…

We start early this morning as we have been invited to a Canadian friend we had met a few years ago in Tonga for pancakes. He is working on a project in collaboration with the local parks and is based in the Seronera. How fortuitous:) we get to catch up…

We are now going to stay four nights in one place in the Seronera part of the Serengeti. The staff are very friendly but this is a very large hotel with plenty of large groups. We somehow manage to get the staff to like us and they make sure we…

As we confidently set out on the journey we quickly start coming across lots of side road options to put us off. Andrew uses his bump of direction and keeps choosing a road that doesn’t quite figure on the rangers map. André in the back seat with his Maps of…

Today is our transfer day to the Serengeti. Again there is a very strict time frame and we have to exit the Conservancy by 12.55pm. We decide to maximize our morning by going on one last drive in the Ndutu area. It turns into an amazing morning , first we…

We make our way up from the valley floor to the Ngorongoro Crater rim. Ngorongoro means “gift of life” in Maasai , who are the peoples that live around the rim and surrounding plains grazing cattle.This is an extinct volcano which exploded and collapsed on itself a few million years…

We have two nights here in the Tarangire Safari Lodge. The view into the park from the edge of the lodge is stunning.  This is the start of a long rainy season but the rains have been minimal so far. This is of great concern as all the important crops…

We are due to depart from Kigali on the 7.20pm flight. We arrive at the airport, security is raised due to the political situation in Kenya, so we have to go through a security pre-check, this envolves pulling out all our luggage and a sniffer dog checks for any suspicious…