28th - Gorilla photos

All photos are in random order.

23rd - Safari photos, other

This is just a mix of various animals spotted during the safari in random order.

Random bird of prey.

This was how popular the leopard was. Imagine 30-40 meters of road like this.



There were quite a few of these very colorful birds.

A hippo in mid-roll.

Pelikans.

Impala.

Olive baboon.

Tucan.

Ostrich.

Wildebeest.

Crocodile, one of the few we saw and the only one out of the water.

Warthogs.

This was one of the vehicles we drove around in. The roof is lifted making it possible to get "out" of the car and get a better view (and taking photos without having a window between you and the target).

Buffalo.

Zebra.

A very colorful lizard. You could find them warming themselves in the sun, and some of them let you get very close before they ran away.

Jackal.

Hyena.

Giraffe.

23rd - Safari photos, elephant

I have a lot of elephant photos so there's a chance that I still have better than these, but they have to do for now.

Can I get an "aaaawwww"?

An elephant came into the camp we stayed at before going down into the Ngorongoro crater and drank from the water supply. Apparently it's a common sight. Half an hour later a much larger elephant came and did the same. Before the first left the camp it trashed a pile of food lying out in the open and ate most of it while the owners couldn't do anything but just get out of its way and watch.

Bonus shot - elephant in the front (you can just see its back) and rhino in the rear. The two largest of The Big 5 in one shot.

23rd - Safari photos, rhino

As the rhinos where up to 1 km away, I have cut out the animals from the photos so there's a chance to see them instead of being a small speck in the distance (even more so when the photos are made smaller when uploaded to the blog), so expect grainy quality. If anyone want to see the photos in full please let me know.

The same rhino as above, but with the kid emerging (see the half back through the two right-most trunks).


A rhino that has been doping its horns?

Nope - just two parents with their kid!

23rd - Safari photos, lion

This was the only thing we saw of the lions. Just a few, right?

Something scared them, and suddently we saw this...

It's probably difficult to see from the photos, but the pride contained at least 20-30 individuals. And in the end, when the entire group had crossed the road, the male lion got up and a couple of photos were shot before he disappeared in the long grass again.