driving through Arusha to the airstrip, first full day |
driving through Arusha |
boarding flight to Loliondo airstrip, eastern Serengeti |
Maasai dwellings below |
bus through the back country |
impala (female) |
African harrier hawk (or gymnogene) with prey on the ground |
first sight of zebras |
first wildebeest (white-bearded gnu) |
agama lizard |
agama lizard |
Kirk's dik-diks |
classy tent accommodations |
main tent at camp |
gray-backed fiscal shrike |
purple grenadier male |
purple grenadier female |
rufous sparrow |
white-naped raven |
white-naped raven |
white-naped raven |
dark-capped (yellow-vented) bulbul |
superb starling |
superb starling |
superb starling |
d'Arnaud's barbet (or usamiro barbet) |
variable sunbird |
impala (male) |
helmeted guineafowl |
ostrich (male) |
ostrich (female) |
Our Maasai translator (right) with tree that serves as "front door" to boma |
The boma's entrance (formerly blocked by the thorn tree) |
Maasai house |
white hair - something unfamiliar |
lots of touching involved |
Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
Maasai elder woman |
kids saying goodbye |
augur buzzard |
augur buzzard |
eastern chanting goshawk |
black-backed jackal |
black-backed jackal |
white-bellied bustard (male) |
white-bellied bustard (female) |
our first giraffe sighting |
African hoopoes chasing each other |
Maasai giraffes on our walk from camp |
Maasai giraffes arguing |
Maasai giraffes - adult male and baby |
cell phone photo shows how far away the giraffes were |
Maasai giraffe babies |
Maasai giraffe baby nursing (note dried umbilical cord - just a few days old) |
Maasai giraffes |
our first wart hog sighitng |
Maasai giraffe mother and baby |
Maasai giraffe baby and youngster (adult at left) |
cheetah mother and cubs |
leopard on kopje |
young lion |
lion cub |
big male lion |