Sections:
Trip Report: February 10 to February 24
Arusha - Tarangire National Park - Ngorongoro Crater - Olmoti Crater - Empakai
Crater - Nasera Rock - Ndutu - Gol Kopjes - Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha
Highlights:
- Leopard sighting on eastern borders of Tarangire National Park with Maasai Steppe.
- Lions hunting buffalo in eastern Tarangire.
- The exhausted baby elephant in Tarangire, gently coaxed to its feet by mother's trunk and foot.
- The old matriarch of the elephant herd who checked us out.
- Abdul's driving skills on the Maasai Steppe.
- Cheetah mother and her three months-old cubs in the Ngorongoro Crater, the last sighting of the day.
- Hiking from Olmoti to Bulati with Karget and Shabaan
- Hiking into Empakai in the black rain from Mount Lengai eruptions.
- Camping at Nasera Rock.
- Wildebeest herd running hard by the tents during a Nasera night.
- Sunsets at Nasera.
- Full moon at Nasera.
- The wildebeest migration in the Angata Kiti.
- Nasera's resident leopard which we never saw.
- Hike through Ol Karien Gorge.
- The wildebeest migration near Ndutu.
- Dawn game drives at Ndutu.
- Wildebeest birth one morning at Ndutu.
- Obliging jackal observations at Ndutu.
- Cheetah mother and her four sub-adult cubs in Ndutu.
- Leopard sighting near our Ndutu camp.
- Lion cubs up a tree in Ndutu.
- Eclipse of the moon at Ndutu.
28-07-2008
