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...

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...