Ngorogoro III

Before I tell you more about the Serengeti, I want to share a few Ngorongoro memories with you. The first took place when we were having a picnic on the shore of a little lake. A group of schoolchildren on a trip were enjoying their sandwiches and drum sticks but had no...

The Lion King

The first day in Ngorongoro Crater we hope to tick some boxes of our Big Five list. And we do! The first animal we spot, although hiding in the yellowish grass, is the lion. They’re majestic, they rule, they are gigantic. But, when you see them lying in the grass,...

Exploring the Ngorogoro Crater

Once upon a time in Tanzania, there was a volcano 5 kilometers high. When it exploded it left a caldera of 20 kilometers wide and walls 600 meters high. Lions, leopards, zebras, elephants, rhinos, gazelles, wildebeests and hyenas lived happily side by side in the crater...

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park is famous for elephants – we spot one as soon as we enter the reservation – and Baobab trees. Baobabs are also known as upside-down trees and thats exactly what they look like! Their wide trunk and branches that resemble the roots make...

Birds of Tanzania

Let me start with a piece of advice: never travel to Tanzania without a Bird Guide Book. We did and we regretted it. Luckily our guide Peter had a 3 inch thick bird guide with him that showed us every possible species that ever lived or flew over Tanzania. I’m not...

The Great Escape

Animals might be busy with their Great Migration from Tanzania to Kenya, for us this was definitely a great escape. Our 4×4 and BGE (best guide ever) took us from one animal to another. Seeing all the wildebeast heading in one direction is surreal. But spotting a...

Tarangire Treetops, Tanzania

  Ever since I watched the Swiss Family Robinson series as a kid I wanted to live in a tree house. A few years ago I finally had a chance to experience this. OK, maybe not on a desert island, but – even cooler – in the middle of a Tanzanian reservation, Tarangire....