Day of the Lions.

First up this morning is our balloon ride, the guys are coming to pick us up at 5. There are six balloons in their company going up this morning and five with another company. It’s a well oiled machine and we were up just as the sun was coming out.

The Serengeti is beautiful to see from the air and it’s so easy to spot the animals from the sky. We saw lions, giraffes, buffalo, zebras, Impala, even a hippo. It’s a surreal experience being in a balloon everything is so quite, until they turn the gas on that is. After being in this land cruiser for so many days it was lovely to have such a smooth ride and over far to quickly for us.

David picked us up after our champagne breakfast and off we went looking for more animals. First a leopard and then the lions started appearing. Mummy lions, Daddy lions, Baby lions, Resting lions, Mating lions. I think we saw fifteen in total today. We told David we had to be back home before dark today, we haven’t even seen this campsite in daylight yet. We only just made it.

The Serengeti is fulfilling all it’s promises. We are off to hopefully find the migration tomorrow.Read more