June 11, 2015

Following an awesome morning yesterday in the Ngorongoro Crater, we spent the afternoon in the Serengeti, stayed overnight in the park and then had another game drive today before heading back to camp this afternoon.

The Serengeti was absolutely amazing…”Serengeti” means wide-open plains in Swahili and it certainly lives up to it’s name.  It’s really cool to see…due to the volcano eruption that formed the Ngorongoro Crater over 2 million years ago, the ground has just a thin layer of soil and is unable to grow tall trees (or really much more than grasses).  Because of this, the land is very flat and open.  We were here just before the start of the Great Migration (wildebeests and zebras), so there were TONS of zebras and wildebeest in the park.  In addition to these, we saw a bunch of lions (3 separate prides), elephants, giraffe, lots of impala and other types of antelopes, and a mom with her 2 baby cubs (guide said they were about 5 months old).

Here are a ton of pictures from the game drives…(I took over 500 pictures just in this 24 hour period, so this is only a fraction of them!)

Following the game drives, we had lunch in the park before we had to drive back to camp.  On the way back to camp, we got the opportunity to stop in a Maasi village where Hayden got to go into the school and talk to some of the kids.  It was a pretty cool experience.  The villages look exactly as you would picture them with the huts, wall around the outside and the people all wearing traditional clothing.

We are now back in Arusha and we get ready tonight to leave for Nairobi tomorrow.  Unfortunately, that is our last stop and the safari will come to an end.  😦