No neon signs just a simple gate and sign welcoming you to the Serengeti – but what a wonder of delights awaits. Like a child in a sweetie shop I felt like an owl with my head on a swivel trying to take it all in. The name Serengeti translates from the masaai into ‘endless plains’ and it is not hard to see why. On these endless plains ‘piles’ of animals – a new collective noun for a group of safari animals spotted from your viewing platform riding high in the open topped safari jeep.
Animals just getting on with their daily business – a leopard snoozing in the tree with a paw nonchalantly swinging, lions lunching on wilderbeast or sunbaking, elephants taking a dust bath, giraffes chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing some more, hippos playing their tireless game of ‘now you see me now you don’t’ as they dip under the water to keep cool, zebras migrating in their thousands as far as the eye can see yet all in single file across the road like a true zebra crossing….
Every day something different to see, something exciting waiting around the next corner, all wild and unpredictable; a real delight. For me a true treat and a perfect way to round off my time here in Africa. I strongly recommend it to all. Already have a strong inkling that there may be a return trip …. so better start saving hard!
Time now however to fly home and see puss puss my own wild animal, family and friends!
See you all soon
C x
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