On Safari in Tanzania – the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater

View of the Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

Flamingoes in the Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro Crater.

Warthog in the Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro Conseration Area.

Ostriches in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Black rhino in the Ngorongoro Crater.

Zebras in the Serengeti National Park

The Ngorongoro Crater Lake at Dawn

Hippopotamuses in the Ngorongoro 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 Ngorongoro Crater.

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