http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tanzania , North , Serengeti National Park en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:02 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:02 BST We left early in the morning on Saturday for Serengeti National Park the usual place to which people go for Tanzanian safaris. Entering the park was the hardest part because we needed to register our cars you buy passes in advance and they are registered with a credit card. But wait The credit card card machine didn't work. So the whole process took a little bit longer than it should have. The http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-303261.html Hi there All we can say is that Safari in the Serengeti Arusha National Park Lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater was incredible We did a camping safari which was a lot of fun And yes all of the pictures we posted below we did actually take ourselves We were fortunate and got to see what they call the Big Five lions cheetahs elephants a black rhino with a youngster and many man http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-302620.html July 9 10 2008SERENGETI TanzaniaThis was a very long day in the car as we drove over 9 hours from MasiMara south and through West Mara and into Tanzania as we made our way to the Kensington Camp in the Serengeti Masai for ldquoendless plainrdquo for some more game viewing.It would be hard to explain the road conditions for most of the trip You wouldnrsquot believe it if I was a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-301077.html We had an early game drive and watched the sun come up over the Serengeti. Magic Itrsquos so exciting to accidentally find a pride of lions or a hippo walking across the road. Then we hit the road back to Arusha. Days on the road are actually harder than you would think. The roads are ridiculously bumpy the drivers concentrate constantly on avoiding potholes they are always looking for other http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-294828.html Just a few more pics http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-290022.html Here are a few more pictures of our Serengeti adventure... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-289996.html We are now in Morocco. After we left Arusha following the safari we went to Zanzibar. The island was in the middle of a bit of a power crisis... well there was no power on the whole island save some generators. It seems that the fuel crisis is an excuse to drive up prices everywhere...and for everything. This is understandable in Zanzibar because all of the generators run on fuel. Needless t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-289995.html Side note We're in Zanzibar now and there is no electricity on the island...there hasn't been for weeks. The subsea electrical cables broke...everything's on generators and internet is verrrrry slowwww...don't think we'll be eating meat for a while Will upload rest of Serengeti pics in London airportNothing could have prepared us for the Serengeti it was incrediable. Serengeti is the Maasai w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-286418.html Let me just start out by saying what an AMAZING experience safari wasI arrived off the bus in Arusha and I was immediately swarmed by about 1820 men trying to direct me to a hotelgive me a free taxi ride protect me from the others who knows...they were all talking at once so it is difficult to say but ultimately they want to get you alone for a few minutes so that they can sell you a safari http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-285673.html Nairobi Kenya was described as a very scary place in all of the travel books but we found it to be easy to navigate and the people helpful. Tourists still seemed to be scarce due to the low season and the politcal unrest which was mainly to the west of Nairobi and is on hold...which we found to be very helpful in negotiating prices.We arrived from the paradise of the Seychelle Islands expecti http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-274484.html Hey everyone. Hope everything is going well. This week we went to the Ngorongoro Crater and The Serengetti where the lion king was based on It was amazing one of the highlights of the trip. Inside the crater was what i imagine goign to whipsnade zoo would be like with animals walking amongst each other in seeming peace. Within minutes we had seen zebra gazelle wildebeast and buffalo and http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-264715.html On the way into Serengeti National Park we had to drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area along the rim of the Crater that we would come back to in 2 days time. It was an interesting drive because the conservation area aims to achieve a balance between the local Masai people and the wild animals. It was so strange seeing a herd of sheep in the foreground and then giraffes feeding on the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-260569.html As if the Gorillas weren't enough we headed straigh to Arusha to start a 5 day safari in the Serengeti and Ngorogoro crater. Managed to get a good deal for a jeep safari with just 4 people in the jeep... After somehow missing all the lions in Kruger a few years ago lions were top of my wanted list and i wasn't disappointed... within half an hour of entering the park we found a pride of about 15 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-259287.html Sun 17th Feb Stayed in bed until about midday. Packed up our rucksacks and said goodbyes was very sad we've made some really good friends at the Hoff. Stanley's taxi took us to The snake park campsite outside Arusha where we met our tour leader Jo and checked in on our month long tour. We were shown our accomodation for the next month a canvas tent about 7 foot square Had a BBQ with the 18 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-257953.html Today we begin our break from work and head off on a safari organized by St Jude. Richard Gemmarsquos husband organises safaris for visitors to the school. We set out first thing in the morning in 3 vehicles and headed to the Serengeti which took all day just to get there. It was dusk by the time we arrived at the camp site. We saw a lot of animals on the way in and stopped at every one to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-255835.html Finally on the road again cross country through magical and hugely neverending Serengeti Parc.Lots of gnous and Zebras. We saw lions and finally djidas...just amazing I was again all the time standing up in the car head and shoulders out of the roof feeling like flying.We stoped at the entrance of the Serengit Parc whic means neverending plains and sat down on the car I jumped down so hot w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-253832.html Following our relatively relaxing time in Zanzibar reboarding Pangani and saddling up for more driving along Tanzania's less than perfect roadways wasn't exactly high on my list of must do activities but because we were headed towards Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation area arguably the climax of the trip I was able to keep my good spirits as we bumped and lurched our http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-239684.html Last week as we traveled over dirt roads for hours and hours to the Serengeti I looked out of our Land Cruiser over endless flat brown plains that appeared to be nothing but dirt dust and dead grass. The road was full of rocks and holes the ride was almost painful as was the scenery. Here I was in one of the great National Parks of Tanzania and I was nothing in the midst of this. All of my http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-215521.html We had a great time in the crater but we were also very excited to head to the Serengeti. You always hear about the Serengeti as the place to see these amazing creates and wild things Would we see a lion attacking a wildebeast or maybe a leopard enjoying a gazelle We headed out from the Sopa lodge at 8 am and we were not sad to say good bye On the way to the Serengeti National Park ga http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-215334.html When I was a child of 4 years old I caused much hilarity to my parents and other rellies by answering the question 'what do you want to be when you grow up' with a very honest 'I want to be an elephant'Well this week I almost got my wish. I certainly got the next best thing which was to be close to my spiritual brothers although I think their memories are superior to mine. For the past 5 days I http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-215168.html After Mt Kilimanjaro we spent a night in Moshi and then 2 in Arusha for a bit of RR before continuing the travels. Following some shenanigans on the part of Brigid Simon and Whitley can anyone fix curtain rails and some home surgery on my toe thanks Justin we said goodbye to Simon met up with Sarah and went on safarihellipOur 4day camping safari of Northern Tanzania was run by a gu http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-213839.html Ok so a week late but i am finally at a computer that allows me to upload some pictures So for those interested in some Kili pictures just go back a few blogs and you will find some with the entry I made it . I am going to let these amazing safari pictures speak for themselves.... enjoy and just know that it was so awesome to see all this wild animlas in their natural habitat AMAZING i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-209069.html The site hosting these blogs suffered some form of cyber attack and lost some of its content I am not about to retype the safari entry although it was by far my favorite but I am reposting some of the photos.G http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-201495.html I have been promising a couple of young friends of ours that I would send some animal pictures for them to see the WILD SIDE of Tanzania. And we haven't had time here in the last few months to actually go out and see them ourselves but I remembered that during the campaigns it was so busy with all the visitors and news being reported that I didn't have the time to share pictures I took from our http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-196448.html Wed 13th Ok another long drive but it was worth it. Read a lot of my book. The last bit of the road was bumpy but nothing compared with Kenya. Drove past the Nogorogoro Crater and drove along the edge before continuing for another three hours to the Serengeti. I said to our guide that I wanted to see an adult male lion and 10 mins later we saw one Then Sean requested a leopard and in the next http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-175493.html SerengetinbspAfrica raquonbspTanzania raquonbspSerengeti National Park By RosalindCorbyJanuary 22nd 2007The Serangeti was brilliant. We saw all of the big 5 and I think my favourite was the zebras and we saw trillions of them. Unfortunately a lot of my photos were corupted at an internet cafe but they are some that are sort of OK http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-173579.html Welcome to Africa What a change from Egypt getting off the plane into humid air. We saw an amazing view of Mt Kilimanjaro while we flew in and were instantly flooded with the realization that we were hiking up therehellip above the clouds where the planes flyhellipon a glacier We landed in Kilimanjaro in the morning and drove to the town of Moshi at the base of the mountain. It is bustlin http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-167030.html Emily and I left Saturday for the Serengeti it's 400 km from arusha but took about 7 hours to drive there because the roads are pretty crazy. you drive up the crater around the rim and then down the other side. the road is only paved half way there then it's rough riding. we stayed at the Sopa lodge our first night complete luxury from our little bunk beds rooms at the CCS house. we each had a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-166313.html Day One Start of the Safari Another early start eeek but cold showers sorted us out. Jumped into a Land Cruiser with Liz Tina Ryan and Nat for the start of our safari. There was a bit of a farcical delay trying to sort payments out which the local boys saw as an opportunity to hound us with their traditional African wares. Who's lunch Stopped at the Ngorongoro Crater rim for lunch and it http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-165935.html Update 27th May 2007. Yes thats right one month after I wrote this I finally got all the photos on to the site. God I miss REAL broadband and not what they think passes for broadband in Africa...they think that internet speed that registers over 1kb per second is fast. So after taking hours on culling the over 1000 photos taken on safari and then getting them uploaded to the blog at snail pace http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-157998.html