We left Cambridge late yesterday evening and overnighted at the Hilton Gatwick airport so we were ready for our 7am check in for our Turkish airlines flight. Gatwick airport is not a favourite - noisy,bustling and feeling overcrowded and that included the lounge which is usually an oasis of calm. The flight was good with a stopover in Istanbul - very quick from London @ 3 hours, followed by a couple of hours stopover in a much calmer lounge in Istanbul, which i...

At least we had one last game drive before returning for breakfast, a shower final packing before making the trip to the airstrip. We heard as we landed in Kilimanjaro, and said goodbye to Paul, that Skippy had sent him a text to say that the cheetah brothers had killed this morning - good for them as they must have been hungry - but sad for us as we missed them succeeding. We arrived in Dar mid afternoon, booked into our flight and relaxed in the cool lounge ...

John excused himself from this morning as he had an upset tummy so I went out on the trail of the cheetah without him. We found them relatively quickly - and watched them stop,start, walk, flop and as before get closer to the wildebeest. Indeed we were just going to have breakfast under a tree when they set off purposefully towards the wildebeest. We packed up and followed them only to have to press the pause button again ... ! This time we decided to eat br...

The day started with watching a family of bat eared foxes hunting for breakfast in the few filled morning grass. We then found our normal group of lions two adults and 5 cubs - this time we got great views of the male until he flopped in some thick grass away from all the attention. Breakfast we by the river watching village weavers. The male builds 1-4 nests and the female chooses which one she wants before setting about making the final touches. We heard ther...

The storms cleared the air so there was a bright fresh feel to the day - but as it got warmer the flies and tetse flies definitely became more active! The dawn light allowed some great pictures of the lions - the mum and 5 cubs were still close to where we left them yesterday.( today's photo is the little one in the morning light.) We then spotted black backed jackals, giraffes, bat eared foxes, dwarf mongooses and vervet monkeys - which I was able to take a ni...