Friday, August 17, 2012

Travel posting and photos from the Serengeti in Tanzania, Africa
the photos are by Mary Doak, Lynne Jewel, Bonnie Seay
Vanderbilt Alumni Association Tanzania Safari Trip June 18-28 2012
for some of my own see the corresponding ourprayergroup.blogspot.com posting: July, August 2012

early morning takeoff of balloon flight over the Serengeti Tanzania National Park

a herd of zebras, as seen from above in the balloon


The Sayonara river which flows throught the Serengeti Park




The four photos above are by Mary Doak







                                   Four photos of an African Eagle




                                         pair of cheetahs observing everything in the Serengeti
                                         short grass prairie, 360 degrees. for miles

They are standing on a kopje (rock outcropping)
lying on the Oldevai-Seronera Road



 
                                             another cheetah resting with her baby on the top of a larger kopje



              leopards in the Gol (badlands of arid thorny hills) on a kopje
(rock outcropping), overlooking,
watching for pray over miles of open expanse in the Central Serengeti Tanzania National Park







pride of lions near a body of flowing water along the Seronera River,
by the Oldevai-Seronera Road in the Serengeti
National Park, Tanzania





3 photos of antelopes


small birds near the lunch garbage at the Oldivai Gorge tourist shed 


                                                    wild boar
flamingos and wildebeasts, Lake Magadi inside the Norongoro Crater

flowers

flowers




four photos of giraffees

hippopotamus

hyena

Lake Magadi


group of Masei gather for dance

Masei women singing

Masei Warrior jump during dance and song



two photos of a monkey



                                             the two photos above are from Olduvai Gorge
                                         site of the earliest known humanoid remains on earth

                                         Catholic primary school children in Northern Serengeti



                              stork




                                                 water buffalo





                  zebras grazing and drinking at the river