Known for its Elephant herds, marshy land and birds of every feather, our last destination is beautiful in a different way. It is in the shadow of Kilimonjaro and our lodge has a view of the elephants and other animals in the plains.

Animals and birds

We have stayed in several amazing places,  but this afternoon and night we have a respite from camping!  We are staying in the Acacia Farm Lodge,  in style! 

Dining area and yard

Our home for the night

Of course we enjoyed a tour of the grounds and the pool

We are at another Angata camp, even a more lovely setting than the last!  Surrounded by much vegetation at an altitude of 7800 feet, perched on the room of the Crater!  We see a bit of it in the distance but tomorrow we cross it, on our way to Kenya again. To have a quiet afternoon and evening,  with such lush views and cool temperatures is refreshing!  

This camp has a bucket shower!  Boiling Hot water is added to the bucket at the back of the tent,  over the shower.   So,  when it is filled, you shower quickly.

We may see and hear elephant and cape Buffalo tonight.   They escort you after dark for security, but we are very close to the main tent where the dining room and lounge are located.  

We did see a forest hog! Well, we heard him first, Buried in the brush, munching his way thru!

On our way to Ngorongoro we were once again amazed by the Marsh pride of lions!

3 handsome males, dad and a couple sons or a brother, 4 females, 9 cubs… the same price we saw walking beside the Marsh that laid down in the shade of our vehicle!

One was missing, even tho their times were bursting. They apparently had a cape Buffalo kill the night before.

We had several minutes alone with the pride to marvel at their features!

Tomorrow, we had for Ngorongoro Crater, and we may see a few animals on our drive our in the morning, but today we had our last 2 wonderful experiences. We have seen so many animals, especially the big cats, but we also saw some new ones each time we went out. There is so much to see, it is always new!

This elephant family crossed the road right in front of us, 13 in total, several very small little ones.

We saw our third leopard today, both the ones we have seen here were very far away in trees.

Several birds were new today

And of course lions!

Our last night in the tent camp we were serenaded by these animals and more! We recognized the laugh of the hyena as we were turning in. The male Gazelle has a little grunt to gather his harum. The early morning, I heard the muffled rumble of the lions around the camp. About 4 an elephant trumpeted very close behind our tent. We could hear the grasses crunch! Quite an evening!

Today our quest was a leopard and altho it took a few hours,  our guides found one in a tree!  It was sleeping,  but we were able to get a view from both sides,  but from a distance.

While visiting a hippo pond,  Casey saw a monitor Lizard! 

We also saw a few birds and other animals today

We found this family of Olive baboons, grooming by the road

And of course, there were cheetahs and several sightings of Lions

But I think the lions are Bored!

Another wonderful game drive.

Emmett took this video right after this lion rested in the shade, the cubs did too.

And a few other animals and birds we saw today on our first game drive in Serengeti

I could hardly believe all the sightings of Lions today. I believe there were 5 groups of 3 or more!

Next we saw a family of 3 females, 2 young brothers, and 9 cubs from probably all 3 moms.

Soon they started to walk along the road

The vehicle parked a bit ahead of them and as they passed, they laid down in the shade. Right under Emmett’s window!

Then the largest female, the matriarch, did the same thing!

We traveled a bit farther and saw 2 sets of 3 lions

We also saw several gorgeous birds and a couple animals

We were out about 5 hours, and the sightings were spectacular! There are very few cars compared to Masai, and there are more cats! And our camp is more rustic, but very modern!

We have had a long day of driving, visiting the masai village,   crossing the border,  meeting our new driver Casey, and arriving at our tent camp! The distance from our last lodging and the new one is really short!

But the official border crossing took much longer.   It was 4 hours to the border plus a short stop at the village

No pictures at the border,  but a long 4 hour drive still

This is the first of our 2 eco tent camps,  Sereni AngA’ta camp,  in the center of Serengeti

Out tent lodging

Our views

Bert with our guides, Casey and Antony