Category: Travel

Departing Serengeti and Tanzania via Seronera Airstrip and Arusha. Leaving Serenity Camp, a few airports and flights today and two Countries. Sad again. After three nights with the Serenity Camp crew I feel a connection and sadness to leave. The likelihood of ever returning is slim. It’s also our last hours on the Serengeti Endless…

Full day Serengeti Game Drive. Elephants and more. Our accommodation is made from thick canvas and midgee mesh, so not soundproof allowing us to hear the noises of the African night.We can clearly hear hyena- they have an owl like ooo ooooo sound. The hippos are grunting – hopefully from the river! Though they do…

Central Serengeti – car issues = downtime! Beautiful sunrise through the midgee mesh. I went out to the veranda to take a few shots. Quintessential African Silhouette sunrise.Our accommodation for two nights is a tented lodge – so we are sleeping in canvas tents under a roof. A later start today with breaky at 8…

‘Retreat at Ngorongoro’ to Central Serengeti. Sadly, we left probably our fanciest lodge ‘Retreat at Ngorongoro.’ JB shared that the Bushman tribe – Hadzabe – hunters were moved out of the Ngorongoro Park. They are very good with bows and arrows. They are the tribe who find the Coke bottle in the movie ‘The Gods…

Tarangire to Ngorongoro. Maasai Boma and Mto wa mbu village/market experience.  Breaky, packed boxed lunch and into Troopy by 8:30. Just down the road in the paddock beside the road a Dazzle of Zebras, next to the paddock of sesame in sheaths. Apart from the sesame seeds they also use the sesame stalks for building.…

Tarangire NP – II. Awoke to the sunrise across Lake Burungi and monkeys gambolling across rooves and verandahs. There was also a Hyrax feeding on the grass beside the bungalows. Suzie also awoke to Keith’s email about yet anorher flight cancellation- Ethiopian Air this time. So some discussions re options over breakfast. Response back to…

Kisorongo, Arusha to Tarangire NP We enjoyed our breakfast at Pazuri Inn. The staff here have been so attentive and helpful. So much food though. It’s a small buffet and we were happy with cereal, fruit, toast, omelettes/eggs, and crepes until they brought 5 bowls to the table for us!!!! – mushrooms, plantain, cassava, bacon,…

Arusha NP. Breakfast at 7am – at a respectable time after 7 hour sleep. JB joined us at breaky which was great. A lovely omelette. And fresh fruit. JB is full of little snippets of info eg. Zuri – Beautiful. So Pazuri is Place of Beauty. Our lodge is Pazuri Inn. Suzie has opted for…

Farewell to Wilson and his Excellent Executive Safari.  Uganda calls itself the Pearl of Africa and Wilson has given us an absolute Pearler of a trip around the country. Departed Boma Hotel at 12:30 am. for our 3:50am flight to Nairobi in Kenya then onto Arusha, Tanzania. Wilson collected us from the hotel and left…

Murchison Falls NP to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and on to Entebbe. A big day of travel and the continuing saga of Kenya Airlines complications. Alarms set for 5am. We need our bags packed and at reception by 5:40. Breaky at 5:45 and departure by 6:40. Our plans were foiled however by a ‘no show’ by…