Tanzania safari - Day 5 - Serengeti Day 3

Woke to a dry clear morning. Cuppa in the tent then on with the day.

The ingenious bucket shower - fill with hot water, raise the bucket, turn on the tap (luckily the latter inside the tent)

Another great breakfast

Ready to head out

Balloon flights clearly visible from our exit road. As I said, we declined USD 599 pp, but you do get a champagne breakfast!!

Couldn’t resist this one of a balloon through the trees

Better photo of dik diks

One of our regular stream crossings when exploring the park…

…or the full on experience option

Black bellied bustard

Tawny eagle, it was feeding on something

Big male relaxing in the open…

…his brother wandering over to join him

Spot anything? - it’s a hint - goodness knows how our guide did…

… yes, it’s a leopard

Secretary bird

Fig tree engulfing the rock

There were six lions on this rock outcrop

This is one of them

Masai rocks - a Serengeti landmark

The Serengeti plain

A well used track out onto the plains

Another lilac breasted roller

A peach face lovebird - pairs being cage birds in Australia, but wild in Tanzania

A pin tail wydah - note the incredibly long tail - they are fascinating to see in flight.

We returned to the camp for lunch then went out again for a couple of hours in the late afternoon/evening

We drove through a big herd of buffalo, this one being particularly photo worthy with his contingent of white eye starlings

Then an amazing display of a steel blue wydah with full length mating display tails

Wydah in flight

Intetesting cloud formations as evening drew near

Then to cap off the day, another leopard and cub in a tree with a recent kill. This photo brings of the young leopard actually feeding on the kill (excuse the colours, it was late in the day and there was a lot of tree foliage in the way so difficult to photograph)

It was quite late in the evening by the time we got back to camp.

Of course what we have in pictures is just a representation of what we saw in the Central Serengeti. What we haven’t shown are the huge herds of buffalo, many more elephants and giraffes, big groups of impala, groups of topi and hartebeast, Grant’s and Thomson gazelles, a number of hyenas and warthogs, dwarf mongooses in anthills, ostriches, and lots and lots of colourful birds plus many vultures and birds of prey. The Serengeti is certainly living up to its reputation.