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picnic lunch at a very busy picnic area, including a coffee truck! We chuckled at some people sitting at a picnic table laid with a tablecloth and getting served a three course meal, including wine. The wind was howling and that tablecloth so wanted to fly off into the hippo populated swamp...

Finally started climbing up to the crater rim. A large Masai boma close to the top where some more punters were about to get the experience then you reach the crest and this presents itself in front of you. Amazing the road down is completely cobbled for traction. I cannot even imagine how...

Day 12 Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater and then to our lodge outside on the other side of the crater Lots more animal noise trhought the night. bStut I think said he heard a hyena. SOmething large wandered near our tent early in the morning. None of us has any idea what it was. Truly sad to...

secretary birds ostriches, apparently this bloke has two wives bAlt has very much been fixated on baby zebra another gnu that is not heading to the Masai Mara yep, another baby. I could have two more beers if we didn't keep stopping for baby zebra photos we went back through that bog...

klipspringer Time for lunch so we drove to the large picnic area near the airstrip and Seronera Wildlife Lodge. Check this place out! Amazing. Built into and around a hill of boulders. And their other two lodges. We saw the Lake Manyara Lodge from below on our way to Tarangire NP. Great...

Some cool rock formations jutting out of the plane. Perfect cat homes but none were around hartebeest At some point I realised that I had a problem with Colin. The roads had been rough. I was super paranoid about him and had my hand on him too tightly. The pressure on his bag had caused a...

A couple of things that I missed from day 10. On the way across towards the lodge, quite close to it actually, we came to a horrible black bog that we needed to drive through. Luckily it was still light enough to see. Ernest got out and surveyed, came back, locked the front hubs and away we...

bAlt was using his offline Google maps to try to give us a rough idea the direction to travel in. Ernest had a rough idea but wasn't exactly sure. Google indicated a direction and we drove up to a camp, but it was not the right one. Google could see it was further but in roughly the same...

we were about 10 or 15 minutes when the excitement began. Off to the right hand side were literally thousands of gnu and zebra and they had started crossing the road up ahead. The migration was underway!! then it was into the Serengeti. Another magic moment. It was 4.38pm. The time is...

Day 10 Fig Tree Camp Masai Mara to Enkariri Wilderness Camp (Acacia Central Camp) including crossing into Tanzania What an f'n long day. Had a fab sleep in another comfy bed. No knocking, no loud talking, just the rhino coming back down into the pool before 6. Full moon setting with hippos...

I was glad to get back to camp. If we ended up in teh same room we were ok. If we'd been moved closer in more ok. We were actually both moved to tents! It might seem odd to want to move from a solid structure to a tent, but here is what we moved to who made these in the 70s? bStut's tent...

We then went across to the Mara River to see the banks that the gnus and zebras of the great migration go down and then come up. You know, that place where the crocs line up? On the way our first giraffe of the Mara then the banks themselves. Instinct is a crazy thing. Those banks are steep...

Day 9 Full day Maasai (Masai) Mara NP Up bright and early for 6am breakfast for our 6.30 all day game drive. We didn't need an alarm clock. The rooms on both sides had wake up calls via loud knocking on their doors at 4.30. They must have been doing balloon rides. Half an hour later they were...

We We're not fancy people. We like nice food and wine but at the same time have no expectations of gourmet dining at the African camps that our budget goes to. The red meat is often tough and Jackson warned us about this right at the start. It's much better in the stews and Indian based curries...

Ngorongoro Crater yesterday. View back towards the crater from last night’s digs taken after we arrived And this morning The weather gods were looking after us

our first lions on the Mara. Some mums, older siblings and cubs another hyena sundowners just as we were getting back to the park side parking area this was walking along the road! what a crazy afternoon. No dinner photos. All food is being served in a large dining room. It's noisy...

We found out on arrival that a large part of the common area of Fig Tree Lodge is still under construction after it, and most of the tents, were severely damaged earlier in the year by floods. They are racing to get everything ready for July when high season begins. The usual open air restaurant...

Day 8 Lake Naivasha to Fig Tree Camp, Maasai Mara The very odd wall safe each of us had in our bedrooms The lodge’s resident donkeys Delicious sounding breakfast we chose the scrambled eggs. Not sure what happened to the bed of toast, chives or butter One the road definitely not...

Dinner was excellent. brassiere beside the table to keep us warm Choosing wine was a hilarious experience. I chose a wine off the menu. Waiter goes to Peter the barman. Much pointing. A few minutes later Peter arrives with an icebucket. That confused us greatly as we’d chosen a South...

So to Naivasha Kongoni Lodge. Not lakefront but definitely lake view. A collection of rooms and cottages of all sorts of shapes and sizes. Loved the resident donkeys. Our room was a surprise. It was actually a two bed cabin/house. Ginormous! Lunch was three courses, as usual so far, and it...