Day 48 3/03/99: Serengeti

After leaving the Lake Ndutu Lodge, we arrived at Naabi Hill Gate, which is the south-eastern entrace to the Serengeti National Park, at 8:45 a.m. There was a small and simple interpretive center.

We encountered this group of five lions enjoying the shade at 10:00 a.m. They sure sleep a lot--our dog Rondo would have been impressived and would have liked to join them. Of course, Rondo would have been eaten as a little breakfast sausage. :-)

At 11:15 a.m. we arrived at Serengeti Serena Lodge, our home for the next two nights.

The room was nice.

The view outside of our patio was very nice.  You know the saying about the three most important things about real esate "location, location, and location." In this case Serena Lodge is on the top of a hill, thus we have a great view of the surrouding area. However, we were on the side of the compound that could not hear all the wildebeest making their gnu sounds.

The bed and the bathroom are the nicest ones we enjoyed so far on the trip.

Theresa was reading our symposium information sheet.

Day 49 3/04/99: Serengeti

Don't touch these special acadia trees. There are angry ants that live on them in the spheres. The ants help to protect the acacia trees against grazing animal, and the ants in turn get free rent.

A crocadile.

A Dik-Dik antelope.

You are not going to see a picture of a leopard on this WEB. The closest you will get is a leopard turtoise. :-)

Two vultures were hoping our Land Cruiser will break down so they can eat us!

At 9:30 a.m. we arrived at this pool that had some hippoes and crocodiles.

Here is a close-up, which is really just some nostrils, eyes, and ears slightly above water.

Okay, we did not exactly see hundreds of thousands of wildebeests migrating on the great Seregenti plain. However, we did see a couple hundreds of them trying to cross the road we were on. :-)

You don't think I'll end my safari photo with anything other than a picture of acacia trees!