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Some final thoughts from my safari
My trip to Tanzania and Kenya has been magical. I have been fortunate to travel with good friends – Dianne and Carroll – and to make new friends too. We were all fortunate to travel with Renner Safaris and Paul Renner. I have a few thoughts and photos to share with you before I say…
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Four days in the Maasi Mara – Part II, second try!!
Up, up and away, My beautiful, my beautiful balloon. (The Fifth Dimension) I was singing that song as we took off and rose above the Maasi Mara at dawn one morning. I’m not sure my balloon was that beautiful but the country below certainly was.
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Four days in the Maasai Mara – Part I
Our final stop on this amazing trip was the Maasai Mara. The Maasai Mara is a continuation of the Serengeti plains (with the Ngorongoro Crater area to the south – see map) but in Kenya, not Tanzania. What surprised us the most was how green (and less dusty!) it is here in the Mara compared…
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Three days in Serengeti National Park – Part II
On our final day in the Serengeti we spotted a female lion with a couple of cubs in a clearing. The guides told us the female was not the cubs’ mother – she could have been an older sister. As we watched a few more cubs wandered out of the high grass around the clearing…
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Three days in the Serengeti National Park – Part I
On the drive from the Ngorongoro Crater to the Serengeti National Park we passed a Masai village. In the distance a woman was driving four mules with a herd of cattle in the background. The vastness of the landscape started to prepare us for the wide open Serengti plains.
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Two days in Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
The Ngorongoro Crater is on the site of an imploded volcano and forms a large caldera. No one is allowed to live within the caldera so our hotel is on the upper edge but still within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. A half hour drive took us down a steep slope into the caldera. There are…
