I went for a four day safari trip to several national parks in the North of Tanzania... Lots and lots of animals... Some pics:
Elephant after a mud bath.
Textured elephant skin
Impala
Massai with some pack animals
Massai village
The Serengeti... which means "endless plain" in Swahili... The lack of trees is caused by a layer of volcanic ash that stops the tree roots penetrating to water so there is only grass which dies off when the seasonal rains dry up.
A Starling... Very iridescent plumage on most of the many species here.
Male lion just hangin out.
Quite a few elephants wandering the plains.
A cheetah laying around after a big feed.
A very full tummy on an otherwise very sleek animal.
Acacia tree on the plain.
Egyptian Geese.
A pride of lions sleeping under a tree, again, after a big feed.
Red Heartbeast
Lovebirds are native to Africa
This cheetah was hungry and looking for prey but we didn't see a chase..
Baboons are everywhere and in large troops.
Impala male.
Wildebeest in large heards though the main group were further North in the Mara.
Vultures hangin around waiting for the lions to finish with a kill.
A different variety of starling.
Lots of hippos both in and out of the water.
Dikdik... the smallest antelope... too small for most predators to bother with apparently.
Me at the lookout above Ngorongoro crater... Which is actually a caldera rather than a crater... The name was derived from the sounds os cow bells on Massai cattle that ring constantly on the highlands surrounding the crater.
Massai giraffe have a distinctly different coat pattern to the reticulated giraffe from further North.
Young Massai men with face paint that marks them as having recently completed the very painful rite of passage of circumcision (at about age 15)
A Massai man outside a traditional Massai hut.
The Toyota Land Cruiser safari wagons that are ubiquitous at all game parks :)
A very colourful male Agamma lizard.
