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"This was the day where nothing really went as planned, but it ended up being one of our favorite days of the entire trip! It started with an absolute torrent of rain at 4am that woke everyone up. It literally sounded like someone was pouring buckets of rain on our cabin!! Since we had been […]
Read more "Tanzania – The Hadzabe Tribe"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"When we originally decided to go to Amsterdam, I knew I wanted night pictures. Even though we weren’t going to need our tripods for Africa and it was something extra to pack, I knew I needed to do it. It was 100% worth it. Plus, I ended up doing some star shots in Tanzania, so […]
Read more "Amsterdam: After Dark"When we were planning our trip, we knew we needed to go see windmills. I mean, when I think of Holland, I think about tulips and windmills! We were too early for the tulips, so that left the windmills! The last day we were in Amsterdam, we took a train to Zaanse Schans, which is […]
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