Ngorongoro Crater

Another very early morning to get into the Crater just as the sun rose. It is an amazing place where the wildlife is contained within the 19km wide perfect crater wall, one of the largest unbroken ones in the world that is not a lake. We can see why it is a Unesco World Heritage site. The walls are between 400m to 610m tall and provide an incredible setting for lions, elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, buffaloes, zebra, reedbucks, hippos, black rhino and flamingos! We spent about 6 hours seeing all of these and were treated at the end by another lion kill. This time only two females worked together to catch a warthog and while they were devouring it two packs of hyenas were vying for the leftovers. While this was happening a brave little jackel kept sneaking in for some scraps. We then had another very bumpy fast drive for about another three hours to get into the Serengeti National Park. On the way a lorry passing slowly knocked the top of our landcruiser damaging it all the way along the side at the top. We weren't in the park long when we were really pleased to see a leopard resting on the top of a rock, then an unsuccessful chase by a pride of 20 lions to try and kill a buffalo. Our camp that night was in the heart of the park, no electric fences to keep the animals out. We had a giraffe pass through the camp and could hear animal calls in the night!Read more