by Thomas | Feb 17, 2013 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
It is interesting to watch male Impalas. Especially when there are two males guarding their territories separated by just the safari road. The staring and posturing make for lovely portrait images. This display takes a different turn when a herd of female Impalas move...
by Thomas | Dec 30, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Serengeti, Tanzania
Our previous edition on the fantastic sighting of the African Elephant herd in the Serengeti national park ended with the juvenile bulls in the herd mock charging the jeeps, leaving us wondering as to why the hitherto calm herd had suddenly got spooked. All the jeeps...
by Thomas | Dec 2, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Serengeti, Tanzania
We saw the massive African Elephant brothers on the first day in the Serengeti national park. But after that we hadn’t seen African Elephants during our rides in Serengeti, up until now. We were driving from western Serengeti to Ngorongoro and we came across a...
by Thomas | Sep 9, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
In our earlier post on Black-backed Jackals whom we sighted in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania, we had shared photographs of a Jackal cub that had got curious about us and came very close to our vehicle. Like we mentioned in that post, there were these...
by Thomas | Aug 13, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
We apologize for the site being down for a couple of days on technical grounds and hence the delay in this post coming up. Thank you for your patience. After an overnight stay at the picturesque Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge,Tanzania we proceeded to the world...
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...
by Thomas | May 20, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
We spotted herds of Impalas almost everywhere in the Serengeti national park. They are the most abundant Antelopes in Africa. However, photographing them was quite a challenge. On spotting a herd, our guide cum driver would slow down and stop the jeep about 30-50 feet...
by Thomas | Apr 22, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Serengeti, Tanzania
We find the Hippopotamus to be the most ill tempered from among all the mammals that we sighted in Africa. And we always sensed an uneasy calm in every waterhole in Serengeti national park, where we spotted a pod of Hippos huddled together. One doesn’t have to...
by Thomas | Mar 25, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
We headed to the Ngorongoro Crater after spending two nights at the Kirawira Tented camp in Western Serengeti. As we were driving through the Western Serengeti National Park, we noticed a pack of Black-backed Jackal cubs playing with some plastic garbage that had been...
by Thomas | Jan 29, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Serengeti, Tanzania
After spending a couple of nights in Western Serengeti National Park, our next stop was the Ngorongoro Crater. As we were exiting Western Serengeti, we saw a Giraffe standing at a distance (Below) next to a shrub. The tall, elegant animal looked beautiful in its...
