We had 3 amazing days in Serengetti and Ngorogoro crater.

We camped in the park and as their were no fences we were given strict instructions on what to do if we were attacked. For a lion just stand still, they only eat you if you run when they charge. For a buffalo hit the ground, they normally kill when they hit you with the impact and you have less chance of dying by being run over with their hooves.

Sadly we didn't actually hear much in the night, so screaching of animals which we think were hyiennas but they didn't get that close. Some Buffaloes got reasonably close to the other tents but we slept through.

We had an early morning pick up at 5.15 for a balloon ride over the Serengetti. Our pilot (Frank) was a real laugh and kept us entertained and also informed by how he was pilotting the balloon. I learnt that he could actually direct if using the air currents. Go up and you'll go left, down and you'll go right.

Highlight from the flight was seeing a cheater chasing and catching an impalla.

Other things that was aweseome to see was 3 cheaters up really close (1 metre away from truck), and then a lioness chase them away from under the tree so that she could rest there. We saw lots of lions (even 2 males up really close), lion cubs, elephants, giraffes, hyiennas, leopard up in a tree, gazelles, dik dik and the list goes on.

Its amazing being up so close to the animals and getting so close. They don't seem to care about the trucks that are following them. Whenever there was a lion or big cat there would be at least 10 utes all crowded around. We couldn't get out of the utes, but the tops popped off so that we could stick our heads out of the top and get a really good view.

We finished our visit with a trip to the Masai village. It was interesting to see inside their houses and get to take photos, but Tony reckoned that they all went home to their normally houses afterwards. The houses were supposed to be make of brances, cow dung, and straw. But they said due to a lack of dung (cows were far away) they used cardboard to line the houeses until the cows were closer and they could get dung. But where did they get the cardboard from!!

Anyway nice to have a good look without getting stones fake thrown at us, or kids begging for money as they seem to do in Tanzania.