Tanzania part II - Safari

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February 27th 2015

Published: March 4th 2015

We have seen Timon and Pumbaa! After we left Zanzibar we flew to the town Arusha in northern Tanzania. From Arusha it is a convenient distance to several important national parks which makes the town ideal for safaris. In the months before we went to Tanzania we tried to book a safari tour on the Internet through various booking sites. But the offers we found there were all really expensiv... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Maasai village

A Maasai village inside the Ngorongoro Crater

Buffalo

The Buffalo and the bird sitting on the buffalo's back are best friends. The bird picks bugs and eats them. The bird gets an easy lunch and the buffalo gets rid of lice and flies and other things that itch

Wildebeests

Two wildebeests

Zebras on the watch

The zebras are standing in pairs looking in opposite directions. By cooperating like that they help each other to keep watch for lions and other predators

Young hyena

This young hyena reminded us of a playful puppy. He/she looked very cute

Spotted hyena

Ostrich

We saw ostriches. That was a first for us. That is another one we can add to the list "various living creatures we have seen but we still don't believe exist".

Jackal

Bird

Rhinos

Rhinos are perhaps only a decade or so away from becoming extinct all over the world unless the illegal trade in rhino horns can be stopped. But there are still rhinos around and we were lucky enough to see three a few in Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Three male lions

We saw lions at not less than three different locations. On the second day we came across three males resting in the grass.

Half of the big group of lions

Later that day we saw a group of at least 12 lions, we had difficulties counting them because they were so many, hanging around a fallen tree. Here you can see about half of those lions. Try to count them

The other half of the big group of lions

Tree

We don't remember what this tree is called. If someone reading this knows, please tell us

Tent lodge style accomodation

We thought tent lodge meant a tent in a camp site. The tent was much better than we expected. It was big, had electricity, a double bed and a even a bathroom.

Antelope

Possibly a sable antelope. We are not very good at telling the various antelopes from each other so don't kill us if we are wrong

Sculls

Animal sculls are often displayed like this

The Landrover

This is the Landrover we used during the tour. The roof can be lifted which is necessary to be able to watch the animals safely

4th March 2015

taracloud
Tara Cloud

The Lion King and Queen!
How fantastic that you stayed in a luxury tent and got to see so many animals--more lions than you could count--wow! I also love giraffes and zebras and think it is so amazing how their stripes and spots are so perfect. My faves are the meerkats and these monkeys grooming each other. Massive cuteness here!

5th March 2015

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Zebra stripes are too perfect
When we saw zebras the first time we were surprised how perfect the zebra stripes were. So perfect, so sharp and so symmetrical that we thought they looked unreal. Almost like like were painted /Ake

4th March 2015

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Sausage tree
That's the name I recall. How lucky are you to have an Eastern African safari with no mention of being hassled relentlessly by locals? I cannot think of a world without rhinos...but I guess poachers don't care about such sentiments.

5th March 2015

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Sausage tree it is
A sausage tree it is. I knew it was something with food. I first tried "bread tree" but realised it wasn't. Then I gave up trying to figure out the name and left it for you readers to help me out. Thank you for helping me. /Ake

5th March 2015

cabochick
Andrea

So glad you saw all the strange beasts that shouldn't exist, and got a luxury camping experience!

8th March 2015

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Safari experience
We still long to take a safari. I guess we just need to do it! Your photos are fantastic and yes the giraffe and zebra do seem unlikely but amazing. Glad you found a great trip.

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