After a 4 hour drive on the bumpiest road ever we made it to the Serengeti.
We spent 3 day in the Serengeti. We stayed in a tented camp there. It was amazing.
The Serengeti is 10,000 square miles big. Huge! These topi (sp?) were outside our tents.
On our first day Chris spotted this leopard up in a tree.
The things Chris could spot were amazing. Chris even spotted a kill that a leopard had pulled up the tree to save for later. He would spot a lion by the flick of a tail in the distance that we could only see with binoculars.
This elephant was trumpeting. They also communicate by a rumble noise in their stomach. The elephants make the noise, and the pride come together to the matriarch and leave, usually when they feel threatened.
Another lion that we followed for a while.
She spied this warthog. We though we would see a chase, but the warthog saw her and took off. Lions rarely hunt on their own, Chris said she was practicing.
A small crocodile.
Impala
Storm coming in over the Serengeti. It was a cool show to watch. Lots of thunder and lighting with a huge rain storm. The smell was wonderful!
Our tent
Our shower. I thought we would be roughing from the beginning but was surprised by our "tents" in the previous days that I thought things would continue to be the same. I was wrong. We got a shower of 5 gallons of luke warm water. It was something you need to experience at least once.
Our toilets were glorified port a potties next to the shower.
Our group of travelers. Keith Williams is a friend of my dads that hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro along with his son Chris. We were grateful to have Doctors with us. Kathy, Keith's wife flew with us to Tanzania. Modi was our other guide. After the safari the Williams went to Zanzibar and Uganda while we continued to Egypt.
On our way to the airport we were in search of a cheetah which we never found but we stumbled upon a pride of 15 lions. Pretty awesome.
A parting picture. We flew from the Serengeti to Kilimanjaro airport.
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