The Serengeti is vast and flat. We have seen loads of predators - multiple close encounters with lions, a cheetah family. The famous mass migration of the herds is over, but plenty still going on around here. There are animals all around the lodge, we can see zebras and warthogs from our window - and the hotel overlooks a waterhole full of hippo. The lodge is built into the rocks, which are swarming with little rock hyrax. Up and out at dawn to catch the action.
Highlights:
- Five metres from a lounging cheetah with her five almost grown cubs.
- Four metres from a pair of lions, who decided to mate, unconcerned about the 30 safari trucks watching.
- Finding a creek bed with two lionesses with 10 cubs - busy mamas.
- The animals seem unconcerned by the presence of multiple safari vehicles. Guides say that the animals do not perceive the vehicles as a threat in national parks, they do not equate them with humans, but perhaps as a weird species. Their eyes can't make out the humans inside, or rather they don't rcognise them as humans. In the game parks, where hunting is allowed, this is quite different and they are very wary.
- Germans smoke a lot, and think nothing of inflicting the smoke on everyone else.
- Our guide, Chris, can spot an owl in the top of a tree 50 metres away!
Our cheetah family
Busy mother
Hippo Kiss
Close to the King
Sunset over the Serengeti
Roll over, National Geographic
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