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Happy belated Thanksgiving! Have to admit that I had the most wonderful Thanksgiving - although I did miss my family and eating lots of good, old American food till I feel ill. But, what a safari we had; we had the best game drives I have ever done. Not to sound too American but, umm... the Serengeti and Ngorongora Crater rock!
November 27, Arusha – Laura
Lasulo2006-01-06 18:05:52
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Happy belated Thanksgiving! Have to admit that I had the most wonderful Thanksgiving - although I did miss my family and eating lots of good, old American food till I feel ill. But, what a safari we had; we had the best game drives I have ever done. Not to sound too American but, umm... the Serengeti and Ngorongora Crater rock!
Both are incredibly scenic but extremely different: the Serengeti, which in Swahili means 'the land the moves on forever', is a flat, dusty, seemingly endless savanna (plains), and the Ngorongora is a smallish crater surrounded by a ring of mountains, a place where the animals never leave, and, therefore, a fabulous place to see any and all animals.
Highlights:
Serengeti - 1. Cheetah sighting (one of many) -- We were exhausted and sitting in the safari truck after a full morning game drive. Our guides had the most incredible ability to spot animals that were invisible to anyone but Steve Austin (the bionic man for any of you who are under the age of 30!). There was a herd of gazelles just strolling along, nibbling on the brown, hay-like grass (it is still the dry season). Not 100 feet away were a mother cheetah and her two cubs. The cubs waited patiently in the grass while their mother went food shopping for some fresh gazelle meat. She stalked the gazelles till she was within 50 feet of them, and they still were oblivious to their oncoming death. What amazed me was that we could see the cheetah getting close, and yet the gazelles just kept on eating. Since the cheetah can only hold her blazing speed for 300 yards, and gazelles are almost as fast, she must get as close as possible to her prey before sprinting. I will never forget the stark and graceful beauty of her body as she bounded to 70 mph in two strides. It still gives me the goosebumps when I picture it in my mind's eye. As soon as the gazelles sussed
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