We first enjoyed a late afternoon, early evening safari with drinks at sundown on the Serengeti. Next morning we did the 6am version where they cook a full breakfast on the Serengeti after two hours of looking at animals. We got real lucky and ran upon a pride of lions including two males lumbering back into the forest with full stomachs then followed the buzzards to observe four females finishing off a wildebeest each taking a turn. The sight of 30-50 buzzards waiting for the last lioness to finish was eerie but the guide said their job is to keep the Serengeti clean, which they did as soon as all the lions were done. After the breakfast we hear on the caravan radio that cheetahs were seen going away from the road path. In Serengeti national park you cannot leave the road paths or the guide is fined and/or suspended for three months. When we arrived at the location where the cheetahs left the road our guide searched the horizon with binoculars then he looks up and down the road path and says lets make a run for it and off the road he goes hauling ass to pass over a near horizon with a slight rise in the terrain and we disappear behind the hill out of sight. One thing you learn, the guides have amazing ability to spot animals you cannot see. He started searching and bingo somehow he sees two "brothers" (two male cheetahs that banded together) resting from a big night of hunting prey. Cheetahs compete with lions for the same prey and sometimes become prey of lions causing their numbers to diminish.

In the early evening we went for walking Safari across the savannah of the Serengeti. It was a little startling but safe feeling when the guide pulled out his big game hunting rifle, loaded it, and instructed us on what to do if attacked by a water buffalo or lion. Turns out all the other animals run from humans - mainly due to our scent. He proved it by walking toward giraffes predicting they would turn and run at 100 meters, which they did. What is amazing all animals let vehicles get within 20 feet. Guide explains the diesel fuel scent hides the human scent and does not scare the animals. But if you get out of the vehicle they will get scared and may attack you. Tonight we are going on an after dark safari to try to find a leopard and a rhinocero.