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