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We
then flew back to Nairobi and caught a shuttle bus to Arusha, Tanzania
(shuttle NOT recommended). After an over night stay at the Impala Hotel we were met by Peter of Roy Safaris. |
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October 10 we arrived at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area mid afternoon and stayed one night at the very extravagant Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. The conservation area is huge, about 3,200 square miles but the real focus is the floor of an enormous volcanic crater that is about 100 square miles in size. |  |
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Ngorongoro
Sopa Lodge |
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Ngorongoro
crater |
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It
doesn’t have the abundance of wildlife as the previous parks
and it’s not as beautiful either but the awe factor at the
size of the crater and its self-contained eco system makes this
very memorable. The more noteworthy animals we saw included a servet
cat, an African wild cat, a mother black rhinoceros with newborn
baby far in the distance, a few jackal, lion, several baboon, black
faced vervet monkey, giraffe, secretary bird, and lots of cape buffalo,
Grant’s gazelle, hartebeest, hippopotamus, hyena, ostrich,
Thompson’s gazelle, warthog, waterbuck, wildebeest, and zebra.
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Spotted
hyena |
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hippopotamus |
Jackal |
Kori
Bustard |
Crowned
Crane |
Secretary
bird |
Black
face vervet monkey |
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Osterich |
40+
osterich |
Grant's gazelle |
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One small pool was virtually wall-to-wall hippos with over 50 in an area so small a person could have literally walked from back to back from one bank to the other. |  |
A dead hippo was in the water off to one side of the pool with several hyenas eating on the carcass and several others patrolling the shoreline. Click on any photograph to see a larger image |
