Tanzania day 4 — Serengeti #1

A brilliant way to make money;
run after tourist cars and get paid for photos.

Entering the mighty Serengeti.

A good sign of a succesful hunt on the ground.

And correctly, this cheetah was watching it's pray.

The view we woke up to – just outside our tent.

We started the day with a few hours drive. By lunch we reached Oldepai Gorge, also known as "the cradle of mankind", a site famous among archeologists. Here they have found our first ancestors, who started walking the earth millions of years before us.

After lunch we had more driving ahead, until we finally reached the gates of Serengeti. We are so lucky that we are here in time to see some of the big migration. An incredible view with thousands of zebras all over the endless plains, along with plenty of wilderbeasts and gazelles.

We saw our first cat, a cheetah, in the grass a few metres from a group of ten cars (a sign that there was something big nearby). It had been abrupted in the eating of a newly catched gazelle. When the others had left we were lucky to see it get up and move before we also drove off and left it to it's pray. It is a mighty big cat!

In the middle of it all we got to see more cats, this time two lions. One of these majestetic females decided to walk just in front of our car. With a 70-200 mm lense AND a 2x extender way too close for a good shot.

It was surreal to stand there looking around at the lions, surrounded by thousands of zebras with a bunch of hippos enjoying the nearby pond. Not to forget, a minutes drive after this we encountered a leopard. Pretty distant up in a tree, but still a pretty big cat that as well.

If we should complain about anything, it must be that we might have seen too much in just two days. All the impressions need some time to develope now. Guess tonight I'll be dreaming about zebras and the cheetas teeth.