by Thomas | Oct 16, 2013 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
In this concluding post on our maiden visit to Serengeti national park, we wanted to showcase some of the animals in their natural habitat that we found to be nice portraits. The feature image of the Lioness in golden morning sunlight is one such pleasing portrait....
by Thomas | Oct 9, 2013 | Africa, Birds, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Tanzania
In this final edition on portraits of ‘Birds of Africa’, the first image is of a cute female Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu that was taken when she came foraging by the side of the road in Serengeti national park. We got the photo opportunity to capture this...
by Thomas | Sep 29, 2013 | Africa, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
After visiting the Olduvai gorge, we headed to our hotel at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. But enroute we decided to pay a visit to a nearby Maasai village to get a perspective of how these people live in the African wilderness away from all the civilization. As...
by Thomas | Sep 11, 2013 | Africa, Animals, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
We reached the entry checkpoint to the Ngorongoro Crater a few minutes before sunrise. Our early entry was rewarded with the most spectacular sunrise that nature had to offer at the Ngorongoro Crater. After witnessing this magical sunrise from the ridge of the Crater,...
by Thomas | Jul 28, 2013 | Africa, Animals, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
We were on a dawn-to-dusk safari in the Ngorongoro crater. And its needless to say that it was a spectacular safari! The sheer density of wildlife in the crater is simply mind boggling. We started out early and caught the sunrise over the crater and then descended...
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...
by Thomas | Jun 17, 2012 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
We were nearing the end of our maiden safari in the Ngorongoro Crater when we noticed a pride of Lions at a distance. On seeing two Lionesses and a Lion, we got very excited. All three of them were snoozing, though occasionally the male Lion would take a glance in our...
