After a very early breakfast, we left our tented lodges at Tukaone Tented Camp for a dawn game outing on our way south to Ngorongoro Crater. Saw a lot of wildlife including a make and female ostrich, and 2 rare Kori Bustards.
As we were leaving Serengeti on our way to Ngorongoro, we stopped at the entrance/exit gate to Serengeti. We waited while the drivers took one of the vehicles back to retrace our route a bit -- one of the spare tires had fallen off on the corrugated road. And then the other vehicle wouldn't start and had to be pushed.
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We had TWO spare tires when we started!
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Giving it a push start
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After a long drive, we got to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, at about 8000 ft elevation.
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| Ngorongoro crater rim: clouds rolling in |
The Ngorongoro Crater floor is about 5700 ft elevation, and has its own ecosystem of predators and prey.
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| Life on the crater floor |
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Flamingos along the lake in the crater
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| Grey crowned crane & chick |
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| Spotted hyenas just waking up from a nap in the mud |
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| Lions sleeping, couldn't care whether we looked or not |
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| Rhinos were hiding out until mid-afternoon |
The road up from the crater floor was steep. The route climbed through dense forests and by a waterfall. We eventually got up to the crater rim and a view spot overlooking the crater floor:
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| Our guides/drivers Denis & Noel |
We drove by some baboons at the Ngorongoro exit gate and continued to the Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge (which was actually not tented and quite nice).
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| Ngorongoro forest Tented Lodge (well, it used to be tented) |
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