by Thomas | Apr 7, 2013 | Africa, Ngorongoro, Places, Tanzania
After spending a night at Lake Manyara and a few nights in the Serengeti national park, the Mecca of wildlife, we set our sights on Ngorongoro crater. After a sumptuous breakfast at the Kirawira luxury tented camp, we started our journey to Ngorongoro crater. En-route... 
by Thomas | Mar 17, 2013 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
We spotted an African Lion pair at a short distance from the tracks on a safari in Ngorongoro crater. The African Lion was an young male and the Lioness was much older than him, hence we weren’t sure if this was a courting pair or just members of the same pride... 
by Thomas | Nov 4, 2012 | Africa, Birds, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
We were on a dawn to dusk safari in the Ngorongoro crater and just after lunch we spotted this large Bustard close to the safari tracks. Our guide identified it as the Kori Bustard and we later discovered that they are the largest Bustard found in East Africa. What... 
by Thomas | Oct 7, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
This post is about the same African Elephant that was on a head-on collision course with a pride of Lions. We had talked about in an earlier post. In the very last minute, the Elephant had decided to change his directions thereby avoiding a confrontation with the... 
by Thomas | Jul 15, 2012 | Africa, Birds, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Tanzania
We found many species of birds inside the camp premises during our short stay in the Ikoma Bush Camp in northern Serengeti. We were particularly intrigued by a colony of Speke’s Weaver that were busy building nests on the Acacia trees. We went around from tree...