More animals

We have been driving around the Serengeti looking for animals and have been pretty lucky in terms of animal sightings according to the guide.

We have seen quite a number of male lions with the ‘Tina Turner’ mane. They just lay under the tree all sleepy and they seem oblivious to the tourists and their cameras clicking away. We drove to a bloat of hippos soaking in a pool of not so nice smelling water. I was able to capture the classic hippo shot - mouth wide open. Later in the day while we were driving around, there seem to be a lot of chatter on the UHF radio and our driver was racing towards an open field where many vehicles have stopped. Whoa! A cheetah! Just walking across the field with blood on its muzzle. I guess it just ate. Spotting cheetahs and leopards are not a sure thing on safaris but we have been lucky! We even saw a leopard come down a tree instead of it hiding up on the tree. While we were driving along the dirt road, I thought I spotted a leopard or cheetah. Well, apparently it’s neither. It is a servale cat. Another hard to see animal and I think it is nocturnal. Aside from the cats, we also saw many gazelles, impalas, zebras etc. The zebra population is 1 million if I recall.

Last evening after a long day out on a game drive, we were treated to a campfire and dinner under the Serengeti night sky. It was definitely a memorable evening.

I think the Serengeti sunset is perhaps the most beautiful I have seen. Once it is dark - things might turn a tad scary as the hyenas start approaching the campsite and start making noise. There was a hyena wondering outside the tents last night. Tonight is our last night. We are spending it at a campsite in the Ngorongoro crater area. We start our day very early tomorrow morning and drive down the crater in search of more animals but especially the endangered black rhino.