Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Today was great.   But hey, have to say I am exhausted.  This safari business is hard work! Up so early, bouncing around in a Jeep for 6 hours looking at amazing animals, today a fabulous photography lesson and then a 2 hour nature walk, with a Maasai warrior, one of the best things we have done this holiday.  In 45 mins we have to front up to our guide Douglas who is taking us to a bush barbecue which we are looking forward to.  Every day has been along similar lines, not sure we could keep this pace up much longer.  Good job late tomorrow we head to the Kenyan coast for some relaxation before heading home.

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Hot air balloon day,  🙂

We were picked up at 5am and taken to the Balloon launch area 40 minutes away. It was very cold. Because the National Park didn’t, open until 6:30am we had an armed Park Ranger accompany us. Continue reading →

We had a slow start to our travel day. All packed and out of our room by 7.20am for a 7.30 breakfast. Damien our waiter knew our order and just confirmed with us before heading off to the kitchen.  Breakfast was tasty as usual.

We got away at 8.10am after being farewelled by the camp staff.

After an interesting drive we arrived at the airstrip around 9am. The overall manager of the Lemala camp was flying out as well. She had been at our camp for a few days.

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We have had an amazing day, today for our last day in the Serengeti.  We set out at 7.30am with Bosco, not long and we saw a couple of  black backed jackals.

We saw  a few animals in the first 90 mins, but it was mainly enjoying the scenery as we travelled over very bumpy, dusty roads.   It is always worth it though.

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Another day another 5:45am wake up for a game drive. We were ready by 6:25am when our Askari guardian arrived to take us to breakfast. (The Askari in this part of the world are akin to Masai warriors.) We arrived safely ?

After we finished eating our breakfast we were just sitting there finishing our morning cuppa’s when I heard an oh too familiar sound. The staff came singing and dancing from the kitchen with a birthday cake in hand. They danced all through the dining room a few times before stopping at our table and putting a delicious looking chocolate cake in front of me. Continue reading →

We woke st 5:45am, another travel day, new adventures.

Today is my 60th birthday and Deb has put so much effort into making it special. Deb gave me a card and then showed me many pictures of many cards waiting at home for me. A special thank you to our eldest grandson and Deb for putting together an amazing video compilation of my birthday celebrations at Mount Lofty House and messages from all our family. When I logged onto the net there were so many messages on social media as well. So unexpected and very much appreciated, I have so many amazing people in my life, family and friends. Continue reading →

I awoke before 5am today, we went and had breakfast at 6.30am then met Zoya at 7.30am, for a day exploring the Ngorongoro Crater.  It is 14.5km across and 264km square and one of the largest Calderas in the world.

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We woke before 5.30am this morning, we had a lovely knock on the door and a cuppa arrived. ?

When we were packed up and ready Greg went outside and shone the torch into the tree and a warrior came to get us. It was a bit of light by then  but it was reassuring to walk with him. Evidently the lions were active all night, the female is on heat, during this time the lions have sex between 20-40 times a day for up to 4 days, from what we were told they were 3 days into this cycle, so I am guessing they are pretty tired.   I asked the warrior where the lions were now and he pointed up the hill to my right. But we didn’t see them again.

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Woke around 6.15am, had a good sleep, ? unusual for me I  normally wake a lot during my first night somewhere new.

Met Zoya at 8am, and headed out on our game drive.   The first 11/2 hours were VERY bumpy. Felt like my whole body was doing a work out, just sitting in my seat. We travelled at 20-30km an hour and there were few sightings of animals during this time.

But then we got to the marsh land and everything changed.   Continue reading →

After getting to sleep last night sometime after 1:30am it was nice to wake around 7am.
We had a quiet morning, and were picked up at 11am for transfer to Wilson Airport in Nairobi. This airport services the international flights to neighbouring countries and humanitarian flights. The planes here seem to range from personal aircraft to commercials with capacities from 2 to 60 passengers. Continue reading →