Safari - Central Serengeti

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It's surprisingly cold during the night and doesn't really get warmed up until around 10.00am, the showers are cold so most of the Americans give it a miss. Breakfast is plentiful, I think I'm going to be one of the few people in Africa putting on weight. At 8.00am we are off on a game drive around the Central Serengeti area. There are a lot of ungulates (Gazelle, Wildebeest, Eland & Haartebeast etc) about as we are seeing the very tail end of the migration. The highlights of the morning's trip are a pair of lions a Leopard with its kill (a Thompson's Gazelle) stashed up in a tree, herds of Elephant and Giraffe. Back to camp for lunch and a couple of hours rest in the a tent that now closely resembles an Indian sweatlodge.

Around 4.00pm we are off on a second drive. This evening the plains seem very sparsely populated but we see quite a few predators getting set for the night's hunting. See Lion, Hyena, Bat-eared Fox and Jackals. Back to camp around 7.30pm.

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