Category Archives: Tanzania

Tanzania Serengeti trip

This amazing twelve day trip had game drives, safari walks and glamping in Tanzania’s most well known national parks; Serengeti National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha National Park, and Tarangire National Park.

Giraffe crossing the road, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Giraffe crossing the road, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Tanzania map with parks we visited
The parks we visited

The Serengeti is huge, miles and miles of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands. While we were there long streams of migrating Wildebeest and Zebras traveled the plains.

Wildebeest on the Serengeti
Bush camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Land of Nature bush camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

The Land of Nature bush camp is totally luxe, indoor & outdoor showers and plenty of hot water on demand.

It’s 4:13 am and I’m awakened by a lion roaring behind our tent. There’s only canvas between me and this beast. Luckily it was walking its territory checking things out and continued on its way after scaring me witless.

Ngorongoro Crater game drive
Ngorongoro Crater game drive

Covering about 100 square miles the Ngorongoro Crater is one of the largest intact calderas in the world. The caldera’s floor is mostly open grassland and is home to elephants, black rhinoceroses, leopards, buffalo, zebras, warthogs, gnu (wildebeests), Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, and lions.

The local Maasai people also graze their livestock in the crater. Our guides arranged a visit to a Masai village, we were greeted by the women, then walked into the village where we greeted the men and were able to visit and enter the home.

Massai village women
Massai village women greeting us.
Maasai village home
Maasai village home
Woman in the door of her Maasai village home
Woman in the door of her Maasai village home

Leopard standing on a tree
Leopard standing on a tree looking around
Zebra carcass in a tree
Zebra carcass in a tree
Hippo in stream
We watched this hippo trying to find a place in the stream, hippos are very territorial.
Tanzania street scene
This scene is typical of what we saw as we traveled Tanzania’s roads, tuk tuks, bikes, and lots of tiny businesses