Written on Wednesday 25 September

How often do you see this on your lunch break?

Wow….   I think these pictures might tell the story far better than any words could.

It all started at Lake Manyara National Park which was pretty incredible. It was Monday morning and before lunch I had watched a giraffe and a zebra grazing on the same pasture.

Seen monkeys, baboons, wilderbeest and numerous other animals I’m unable to identify.

From Manyara to the Ngorongong Crater. This place was mind-blowing.

Around 2.5milion years ago the reservoir of magma under a giant volcano exploded causing a vacuum that caused the massive mountain to implode leaving a 600 metre deep crater.

The 304 square km expanse is the world’s largest unflooded and unbroken caldera. It contains up to 30,000 large mammals and many birds.

The large animals are unable to get out of the crater making the wildlife here spectacularly abundant. It is like sitting in the middle of a nature documentary only you’re really there.

Within 10 minutes of us completing the one hour 40 minute drive to the crater floor these two stunning ladies greeted us.

After that it was spot after spot lions, elephants, buffalo, hyenas, gazelle, wilderbeest, zebra and much, much more.

If there is one must see place for a safari it is the Ngorongong Crater.

Reluctantly leaving the crater we began the long bumpy drive (gravel road) to the Serengeti National Park. A short game drive upon arrival brought the spectacular sights of a leopard up a tree with a kill and some lion cubs on a fallen tree branch.

Our camp for the night was unfenced and in the middle of the park. It came with the warning that if you get up in the night shine your torch into the darkness and look for eyes staring back at you because there is a real possibility you could be lion food. Needless to say my liquid intake for the 12 hours before arrival was minimal.

After a surprisingly good night’s sleep our final day on safari treated us to a mother lion and her cubs, hippos plus a spectacular view of a leopard and much more.

I shall end as I began….wow…

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