01 March 2009

Day 3 of Safari

19 Feb
Day 3 of Safari – Ikoma Wildcamp


Drove through Ngorongoro Cons. Area yesterday. Stopped at Olduvai Gorge.

Arrived at Serengeti Nat’l Park after lunch.

Arrived at Ikoma Camp by sunset. Two options—camping and lodging. Lodges are mud huts with thatched roofs. Very cute!

Heard crunching sounds all night long though. Mike thinks it may have been the giant mantis we saw just before bedtime.

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Ikoma Wildcamp

At camp, saw a pair of go-away birds. On route to SNP, storks in a tree.

Serengeti National Park
francolin
hartebeest
elephants – the first one of the day trumpeted and false charged for several steps
giraffe
Kirk’s dik-dik
lions – 3 females, one with tracking collar; two cubs
bird – lilac-breasted roller
crocodile
Egyptian geese
buffalo
ox-peckers
warthogs
hooded vulture
2 leopards, mamma with kill and baby
long-crested eagle
white-headed buffalo weaver
waterbuck
topi
hyraxes – rock and tree
tawny eaglewhite crown shrike
lovebirds
red-neck falcon
lanner falcon
common stilt
olive baboon
vervet monkey

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Serengeti National Park

See photos on flickr

I'm typing up my notes from the trip and posting them with just some light editing. Each day will be a new post. (Some of these may not be much more than lists of animals we saw each day.)

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