Serengeti National Park

We left our beautiful lodge this morning at the Crater and began our journey to the Serengeti. Along the way we saw thousands of wilder beasts, zebras, giraffes, gazelles and even spotted a leopard! We are camping inside the Serengeti for the next 3 days spending everyday on game drives with hope to see as many animals as possible!
We first drove to our camping ground and put all our suitcases away in our tents. The accommodation is described as camping, however it is far more like glamping! A beautiful location to be glamping as well!
We set out for our afternoon game drive and we were beyond lucky today!
First a cheetah spotting with its two cubs! Absolutely perfect timing as well for Amos’ birthday! We were so close to also being able to watch the cheetah catch its lunch - she called her cubs over to her and sent them to hiding laying down in some bush’s as she crouched down low and began creeping forward to a gazelle. She used the cars around her to hide behind so the gazelle wouldn’t see her. After a few minutes the gazelle caught on and quickly ran away, being just out of reach for the cheetah to begin running.
Our tour guide told us that cheetahs only can run at their full speed for approx 2-3 minutes so they usually try to get within 50m before even trying to run after their food.
Shortly after this, we found a pride of lions sleeping under a tree in some shade! There seemed to be 3 mums with multiple cubs all huddled together. It was amazing watching the lions be so calm with us so so close to them! The cubs were very curious and constantly would be up and looking around at all of us.
A few other animals spots along the way such as gazelles, thousands of zebras and wilder beasts again before all of a sudden our tour guide started zooming pretty fast! We quickly realised he had heard something over the walkie talkie and were excited to see what was going on!
Oh wow did we get a suprise! A pride of 10 lions all up and around a tree! I didn’t even know lions could climb a tree! Such an amazing experience to witness in real life! We stopped to watch the lions for just over an hour! Watch the cubs try to climb the tree, the mums be alert of everything.. perfect spot high in the tree on a cliff over watching all their territory! Absolutely spectacular watching these animals! Could never get bored watching them!
We ended the day with dinner and cake for Amos’ birthday! Definitely a day to remember, can already imagine Amos and I talking about this day, remembering the beauty of it way into the future!Leia mais