After a loooong flight back to California, we’re catching our breath at a friend’s home in Camarillo.  Looking back on our African experience, we realize we have memories we’ll carry with us forever. You’ve read about our non-stop schedule, and you’ve seen many of the animals and birds we encountered.  But there were many social experiences also.…

Our final safari day started with a morning game drive.  I never got a good photo of the ostriches, but I thought you might be interested anyway. Ostrich The black one on the left is the male and the light one on the right is the female.  The male has a harem of females, and as I…

Another bush flight brought us to our final segment of the safari vacation: Kenya.  The maps show an overview of Kenya as well as the location of our final camp, Bateleur Camp, in relation to the prior two camps in Tanzania. The last map also shows how the Serengeti National Park extends into Kenya as the…

One of the reasons for including Tanzania and Kenya in our safari vacation was to witness the Great Migration.  Normally, our timing should have had us viewing the animals at the peak of the migration, but Mother Nature fooled us! The reason all these animals migrate all at the same time is because their food becomes…

Not too many animals in this post, but I wanted you to see the varied landscapes in the central Serengeti: Flamingo Central Serengeti landscapeCentral Serengeti landscapeMorning gloryCandlelabra treeSerengeti landscapeSerengeti landscapeSausage treeNear the hippo poolSunrise on the SerengetiSunset on the SeregetiSunrise on the SerengetiSerengeti landscapeSerengeti landscapeWildebeast More animals in the next post!

On Tuesday, May 25th, we took another bush flight to the Seronera Air Strip and went to the One Nature tented camp in the heart of the Serengeti.  These were not tents as we usually think of them…  Each “tent” had sort of a living area, the bedroom area, the copper bathtub area, both indoor and outdoor…

Sorry I'm so behind on my posts! To save time, this post will be mostly photos. We probably took more than a thousand photos of animals, but here are just a few of our favorites: Egyptian geese WaterbuckPlains zebra (Grants subspecies)Velvet monkeyImpalaVelvet monkey And, of course, there were non-animal highlights, from sunrise to sunset, with…

Last Friday (May 21, 2021) was a travel day.  From the rainforest in northeast Rwanda, we travelled to the northern Serengeti in Tanzania for a more traditional safari experience.   The following maps show an overview of Tanzania and a close-up of our first stay at Klein’s camp. There is quite a difference between the Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge…

On Wednesday, we were taken by van from Kigali to the Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge in Northwest Rwanda, just outside the Volcanoes National Park. These monkeys were our first wildlife sighting. Typical mode of transportation, although men often used bicycles. Here are two shots of our arrival at the Lodge: After independence, the small African nation…