Our tent was surprisingly free from all bugs and animal visitors on the inside. However, we did hear very odd growly noises and rustling that we thought were baboons. It did not keep us up that long, as we are both exhausted from the sun.
Today we started out our day by having our normal breakfast. I was about to order my meal and all of a sudden I heard a noise. I looked up and saw two monkeys running around and playing on the top of the tent where we are eating. We heard them running back and forth and chasing each other all breakfast. We believe they were velvet monkeys. We heard a very funny conversation next to us. A woman said to her friend, “It is very windy outside.” The waiter replied in a Tanzanian accent “Not windy, monkeys.”
We had a full day of Safari on the Serengeti. As we were loading the camera with batteries, only 1 minute from our camp, we came upon a very large male elephant blocking the road. We had to stop and realized there were 17 elephants grazing and passing through. We were obviously too close when he shook his head and charged us twice. Our driver quickly put it into reverse to remove us from danger. It was actually a bit scary for a second. After they had all passed, we drove 3 minutes up the road and saw the highlight of the day. We saw a pride of 13 lions, including 2 young males (very hard to find). They were only 8 feet from the road. 5-6 did not like us there and moved away behind a bush, but the rest stayed. After about 5-8 minutes, there were 4 females left where we could see them. Then, 2 antelope ran about 100 yards behind us over the road. About 9 females went from laying down into attack position very quickly. Unfortunately, they did not chase them, but was really cool to see their instincts.
Our time in the Serengeti today was slow. The warm sun and the constant motion of the Land Rover kept putting me to sleep. At one point, our driver asked “Justin, are you very tired?” which we realized that we were probably both asleep. We saw a ton of gazelles, impalas, buffalo, 2 African Fish Eagles, tons of hippos, elephants, giraffes, antelope, lion, 2 leopards in trees, zebras, and warthogs. We really enjoyed watching the hippos snort, fight with each other, walk up on dry land very slowly, and poop right on one another (Justin especially).
Tomorrow, we are off to Ngorongoro crater to go inside the crater where we are promised to see the last of the big 5 animals, the rhino. We can’t wait.
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