Our trip to Serengeti National Park was highly anticipated by our group for one reason – elephants. We saw a group of elephants in Ngorongoro Crater, but they were too far away to get good pictures of. Since then, we hadn’t seen any other elephants. Everyone was hoping that we’d see a huge herd of […]
Read more "Tanzania – Day Three in Lake Ndutu and Serengeti National Park"Our second day in Lake Ndutu brought less rain, which was great for us because that meant a lake crossing could take place! We started off the day with cheetahs and lions and ended the day watching one of the jeeps get pulled out of an aardvark hole. We also got to see two vultures […]
Read more "Tanzania – Day Two at Lake Ndutu"It’s hard to think that anything would top Ngorongoro Crater. However, we were going to spend the rest of our trip in Lake Ndutu. Aside from a day trip to Serengeti National Park, we were just going to be on game drives around Lake Ndutu. We were told that this was “cat heaven” and boy […]
Read more "Tanzania – Day One at Lake Ndutu"Our first day on animal safari did not disappoint! After seeing the crater from the rim, we were so excited to go down into this massive crater and see all of the animals! The Ngorongoro Crater was formed when the top of the mountain collapsed and created a volcanic caldera. There are lots of animals […]
Read more "Tanzania – Ngorongoro Crater"The last tribe we visited was the Maasai tribe. The Maasai are cattle farmers and measure their wealth by how many head of cattle and how many children they have. This is one of the larger tribes in East Africa – they are mostly in Tanzania and Kenya. Since we missed out on the Maasai […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Maasai Tribe"In my last post, I said that our plan for this day was to visit the Hadzabe tribe and then drive to Ngorongoro Crater, where we would attend a Maasai market. We left the Hadzabe and began our journey to Ngorongoro Crater. As you may remember from the last post, it had been raining all […]
Read more "Tanzania – Rain Delays and Baboons"The first three days of our trip were a cultural safari in which we visited three different tribes. The first tribe was the Datoga, who are farmers and herders. In this particular village, the men worked as blacksmiths, and the women tended the herd, so it was really incredible to see the two vastly different […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Datoga Tribe"We arrived at the Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania on a gigantic plane that seemed to take up the entire runway! We deplaned onto the tarmac and walked into the airport. This is what our plane looked like – We had a 45 minute drive ahead of us to where we were staying for the next […]
Read more "Tanzania – Arusha Coffee Lodge"I feel like every Night Hawks post I do, I always say “this is one of my favorites!” And that’s because they kind of all are for different reasons! And the Griffith Observatory is actually one of my favorites because I love being in this huge park that overlooks one of the largest cities in […]
Read more "Night Hawks: Griffith Observatory"Since Mike and I have become Night Hawks regulars, we’re always extra excited when we see a new place on the calendar! Belmont Pier was a new place for us and we loved it! It was so peaceful and we got some great pics! We ended the evening in a park on a hill in […]
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