SAFARI 2000 - KENYA, TANZANIA & BACK

I thought It was about time I changed the pictures on this page as I haven't done so for a while - I hope you like the new selection.
For new visitors, my safari was in October 2000 - a week in Tanzania and a week of relaxation at Whitesands Hotel in Mombassa.
We travelled from Lake Manyara to the Serengetti and then on to the Ngorongoro crater, all of which was pretty spectacular and, as you can see from the pictures, we got pretty close to the animals.
We didn't see the migration - I caught the tail end of it the first time I was out there in 1997 - but there were still plenty of wildebeest strolling about.
Apparently The Lion King was based on the Ngorongoro crater and you can see why as there is a huge variety of animal life there. The zebra live quite happily with the gazelles etc. and even the lions and cheetahs until they start eating them.
Wherever we went there were animals to see - we were really lucky. The middle picture below are Rock Hyrax - they were snoozing at one of the hotels we stayed at.
The view below is fairly typical albeit with a bit more water than you might see normally. There are another couple of views of Tanzania on our Landscape page.
We didn't see anywhere near as many elephants this time as I saw when I was in Kenya a few years earlier. Apparently they'd wandered off looking for water. Autumn is a good time to go as the grass is short so you get to see the animals fairly easily but you do miss some of them if they've migrated off.
We saw a couple of leopard which was very exciting as they seem to be very rare and we were told that the buffalo is the most dangerous animal out there due to its unpredictable nature - it looks so "friendly" too.
The sunrises and sunsets were spectacular and the trees provided interesting shapes in the bush (not to mention a food source)

Finally, I thought the dragonfly and jacarnada tree would give you a taste of some of the colours we saw.

If you like animal pictures, please also take a look at Iain Green's website - his images are something special.

Please note that all images are © Shirley Sinclair 2000 and may not be used without prior written permission (just ask in other words!)

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