On Safari in Tanzania – the Serengeti and the Ngorogoro Crater

View of the Ngorogoro Crater at dawn.

I will be honest, I am at a complete loss for words at the beauty and majesty of the animals, landscape, skies and nature which I have seen over the last few days on my recent trip to the Ngorogoro Crater, the Serengeti and the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania.

Everything I write seems to sound so cliched and naff that I have now given up trying.

So I shall simply include my photographs and leave the words to Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, taken from her second volume of Collected Africa Stories ‘The Sun Between Their Feet’:

“Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.”

African lioness in the Ngorogoro Crater.

Cape Buffalo in the Serengeti National Park

Thomson Gazalle in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Superb Starling in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Masai children in the Ngorogoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

Flamingoes in the Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania

Wildebeest in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

The Spotted Hyena in the Serengeti National Park

Serengeti Panorama

African leopard sleeping in a tree in the Serengeti National Park.

Lioness and cubs in the Ngorogoro Crater.

Warthog in the Ngorogoro Crater.

Crowned stork in the Serengeti National Park

Giraffe and Whistling Acacia trees in the Serengeti National Park

African Elephant in the Serengeti National Park

Vultures spreading their wings in the Serengeti National Park

The Masai herding cows in the Ngorogoro Conseration Area.

Ostriches in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Black rhino in the Ngorogoro Crater.

Zebras in the Serengeti National Park

The Ngorogoro Crater Lake at Dawn

Hippopotamuses in the Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania.

Move over Julian, Dick, Ann, George and Timmy the Dog, this Famous Five (well not so famous five, but you know what I’m getting at) went on Safari and met the big five – the African lion, African elephant, cape buffalo, African leopard and the black rhinoceros.

Lottie, Leon and Frida at the Western Gate of the Serengeti National Park.

Frida, Ali, Lottie, Mark and Leon on the edge of the Ngorogoro Crater.

Frida, Lottie and Leon on the edge of the Ngorogoro Crater.