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Chanya Lodge was a great surprise. Our first, and only, urban stay. Up a bumpy little road off the main road were a set of gates and behind them this cool little lodge a full sized cape wolf snake on the driveway. 25cm long and not venemous very nice quirky room beautiful gardens...

The coffee demo was super good. I wish we'd taken a picture of the place we visited. While we were waiting for the demo to strat a group arrived covered in mud. Lovely Swedish family. I asked how bad was it and they said really slippery and there's no way you could do it without ending up on...

Day 15 Tarangire Simba Lodge to Chanya Lodge, Moshi After the misfire with Lake Manyara, Ernest knew exactly whay was on our schedule each day and today was to include more than we knew about. We knew a waterfall visit was on the agenda but the coffee making demo and local foods lunch were a...

a couple of young giraffes getting their fight practicing in for the day a big old tusker it was about this time that we started getting buzzed by flies, and they not just any flies, they were bloody tsetse flies. Did we know Tarangire was known for them? Yes. Did bAlt and I where...

Day 14 Full day Tarangire National Park Up at sparrow fart yet again. Wandered into the bathroom to start getting ready and this happened. I think I am very, very lucky that I didn't go the whole way through dawn as we were being escorted to the lodge building the guard confirmed that the...

mongoose at the entrance some more of the beautiful sunset. water buck out by the waterhole firepit peeps Another camp/lodge where we were not allowed to walk unaccompanied after dusk and until dawn Buffet again for dinner. All freshly prepared and the chefs standing proudly behind...

the pland was for Ernest to drive the whole way down the length of the park/lake and we would come out very close to our lodge. Unfortunately due to lake rises and rain washouts this became impossible so we turned back. This gave us the opportunity to stop for lunch at a large picnic area. we...

Is that weapon completely disproportionate or what to that little guys size??? back to g rated Lake Manyara a bird of some kind there are of course hippos in the lake hadada ibis I can't resist. Dik dik elephants of all sizes. There were a lot of elephants here and they seemed to be...

Say 13 Ngorongoro Tented Safari Camp to Simba Tarangire Camp Looking back through my notes that I put into my phone as we go I have - Ngorongoro comes from the the sound of cow bells ringing Poli poli - slowly slowly A new Geopark Museum has been constructed on the road from the crater...

What a unexpected surprise Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge was. It was really really nice instead of tents we found ourselves in the best two of the eight solid structure rooms the view from our verandah back towards the crater in case a baboon comes in and tries to attack us ;) our rooms...

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...