Animals as our mirrors experience!

DAY Nine – October 25 A long drive to Lobo but with far fewer cars, a better road and lots to see along the way… Including lots of lovely elephants. Even in the more barren looking areas with small trees that seemed to be struggling at the end of the rainy...

A day of lions!

DAY SEVEN – 23 October Lions are all around.  One might think there isn’t an issue with the state of lions and their threatened populations, but alas they are very threatened, mainly by corruption in the canned hunting industry. Driving along the river in the...

It was rhino day….

DAY SIX – 21 October It is now dry season there and the place is golden and the grasses nibbled down to nubs allowing winds to pick up funnels of dust devils.  The plain seems baron with very dispersed animals…lots of animals, but many were at quite a...

To Ngorongoro Crater…

DAY FIVE – October 21 After breakfast at Tarangire Lodge we overlooked a massive herd of mostly female, Cape buffalo wind their way past the lodge to the river.  It was like watching a thick trail of ants migrate along, working together moving almost at one huge...

On the trail….

DAY FOUR – 20 October Nice drive with good variety of flora, to mating rituals played out with ostrich, competing eagles (Batalure vs Tawny), Baobabs trees, orchids growing wild in the loving branches of the grand succulents, playful mongoose, cheeky monkeys, a...