Our camp-site for the night was in the Serengeti, with no fences. We were warned to keep our tents far enough apart that an elephant could walk through and reminded of the procedure for a night time toilet break. Despite being low season there was at least 100 people at the camp-site, I suspect that this generally scares animals away as no one heard an animal let alone had a close call. We were the last group to arrive at the camp-site and the first ones to leave...

The day started out early in the mist and cold. A short drive took us to the top of Ngorongoro crater. As we drove inside and to a lower altitude, the rim is at about 2400m, we could start to see the grazing animals on the base of the crater. Many wildebeest, zebra, warthog, Thompson and Grants gazelle. As we drove close to the lake in the middle we could see the flamingo forming a pink circle near the bank all the way around. The pictures really tell you more th...

We had another sleep in as our 4wds to take us to Ngorongoro were not leaving until 3pm. We spent most of the morning wasting time at the local shopping centre. And it was a real waste of time as we had already stopped in the day before for supplies. Eventually we piled our camping gear and back packs into the 4wds to make our way up to our accommodation on the rim of Ngorongoro crater. Along the way we stopped off photos as a lookout over Lake Manyara and to pi...