Safari

An attempt at an artsy pic in b&w. Love, love, love giraffes!!



We got super close to these hippos. They were making out!


A buffalo skull in Ngorongoro Crater.


First lion we saw, she has some sort of tracking collar on.


Love this sign! We camped in the middle of the Serengeti with no fence. Good thing we weren't "attact"!


This elephant was on the edge of one of our campsites!!! I actually got a bit closer than this picture shows. So cool!!!


A buffalo from really close-up. He was right outside my jeep window!


A perfect pose.


I like this one with the baby.


The people I went on safari with: Tom, Barb, Kate and Anne-Marie








Well, I just finished 5 days of safari yesterday, and it was really fun. From Arusha we first went to Lake Manyara, which has pretty much everything: elephants, giraffes, zebra, hippos, etc. It was so cool, especially because it was our first day so we were very camera happy and excited about seeing everything. The next 2 days were spent in the Serengeti, where we saw lions, a cheetah, and a leopard, so we were pretty lucky. Day 4 was spent in the Ngorongoro Crater, where we could have seen rhinos from a distance if any of us had any binoculars! Yesterday we were in Tarangire park, where we saw the largest herd of elephants so far, maybe fifty of them in a dry river bed. That was really cool. Also, there was an elephant on the edge of one of our campsites and I got really close to take a picture! I can't really do justice to everything I have seen without posting pictures, but that seems to be very difficult here so I will try at another internet cafe. Today has just been a lazy day in Arusha, then tomorrow morning at 8 (or 9, no hurry in Africa) I start climbing Kili! I will tell you all about it next week after I have been to the roof of Africa!