Serengeti Safari

From Monday to Wednesday me and my family went to the Serengeti (it apparently should be pronounced ‘see-reen-getty’ ) It was an extremely exciting few days and we saw loads and loads of animals/birds listed below:

An Avocet
Baboons
Banded Mongoose
A Black winged stilt
A Black-back Jackal
Black-Faced Monkeys
Buffalos
Camels
Common Waterbucks
Cori Bustards
Crocodiles
A Dik-Dik
Egyptian Geese
Elephants
Golden Jackals
Grant’s Gazelles
Go Crested Cranes
Grey Herons
Ground Hornbills
Guinea Fowl
Hammercops
Heartebeest
Hippos
Hyenas
Impalas
A Leopard
A Leopard Tortoises
Lesser Flamingos
Lions
Maribu Storks
Masai Giraffe
Moniter Lizard
Mousebird
An Orange-Vented Buffalo Weaver
Ostriches
Oxpeckers
A Pelican
Rhinos
Storks
Superb Starlings
Thompson’s Gazelles
Topi
Vultures
Warthogs
Wildebeest
Yellow beak storks
Zebra

A few particularly exciting sights that I saw in particular were the  Golden Jackels, the Hyenas and Leopard. This is because The first of the Jackels and Hyenas were spotted by me without anyone else noticing. The Leopard was also quite special because they (along with cheetahs which we hadn’t managed to spot) are extremely rare. The rhino’s would have been good also, however we could only see them on the horizon so we didn’t get a clear view of them. We intend to go back to the Serengeti and Ngorogoro crater (where rhino’s are found) in about a years time so maybe we’ll see rhino’s and cheetahs more clearly then.

Nyerere Day

Yesterday was Nyerere Day in Tanzania (named after the first Tanzanian president) so me and my family went to ‘Papa’s’ as school wasn’t on. It took an hour’s drive to get there. The scenery was amazing and so was the lunch we had there. We had lunch at this restaurant that looked a bit like a large thatched house (imagine a stereotypical African mud hut on a larger scale made from wood). I had steak which kinda tasted of both ghoat and beef at the same time. It was good though considering what some other food has tasted here. I would enjoy going back another day.