Four days on the new continent have passed. Three of these days have been spent on a safari. We’ve been to Tarangire, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara. The three nationalparks are quite different from each other; Tarangire was the first one we visited. The drive there introduced us to the phenomenon of “African massage”, which is what you get when you drive on a road full of holes or bumps or when you’re driving on something that’s a bit short of being a road.
The Tarangire Nationalpark was full of animals and life! Probably this wasn’t because this park has more animals than the other ones, rather the animals crowded up by the one river flowing through the park. Here are some pictures from the Tarangire park.
A green oasis in the otherwise dry climate.
Marabou storks, wild beests, zebras and giraffs flocked around the river!
Same feathers flock together?
The Ngorongoro Crater was very flat, with mountains surrounding the entire crater. In there, we saw black rhinos, elephants, lions, wild beest, hyenas, zebras etc. Truly amazing!
Water buffalo!
Herds with hundreds of wild beests!
The elephants were magnificent!
A lion family taking a siesta.
Some hippos relaxing in the water.
The last day of the safari was spent at Lake Manyara. Amongst others, the notorious tsetse fly lives there. Luckily though nobody got bit. Besides the 20 or so giraffes, 40 elephants, gazells, dik-diks, bushbuck and mangooses we saw, it was quite astounding being in the jungle climate.
It really is amazing seeing these exotic animals walking around the parks, mostly they look relaxed and content! Although some showed us some attitude, like the guy on the picture below!
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