| Olduvai Gorge and Serengeti National Park |
After breakfast of 17 October we left Ngorongoro Crater. After an hour or two we arrived at
Olduvai Gorge, where the river had cut the gorge through many layers of volcanic deposits, exposing
ancient fossils. We listened a ranger lecture about the significance of the fossils discovered in the
gorge. The most famous of these fossils is an ape-like skull almost two million years old discovered in
1959 by Mary Leakey and human-like footprints over three million years old discovered in 1972. We
also visited a small museum at the gorge.
Olduvai Gorge, where the river had cut the gorge through many layers of volcanic deposits, exposing
ancient fossils. We listened a ranger lecture about the significance of the fossils discovered in the
gorge. The most famous of these fossils is an ape-like skull almost two million years old discovered in
1959 by Mary Leakey and human-like footprints over three million years old discovered in 1972. We
also visited a small museum at the gorge.
Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge
We continued driving to the gate the Nabii Gate of Serengeti National Park, where we had a picnic
lunch. After lunch we continued as an open-topped game drive through the park, where we saw many
more of essentially the same wildlife we had seen earlier on our tour. After a few hours we arrived
at the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge, in the central part of the enormous park, where we stayed for
two nights.
The following morning, 18 October, we went on a very successful wildlife-viewing drive during which
we saw many lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, etc. The morning after that, 19 October, we went on an
even better drive. Within twenty minutes we came to a herd of at least thirty elephants, and later in
the morning we saw a total of at least thirty additional elephants. Also saw many more of the usual
wildlife.
lunch. After lunch we continued as an open-topped game drive through the park, where we saw many
more of essentially the same wildlife we had seen earlier on our tour. After a few hours we arrived
at the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge, in the central part of the enormous park, where we stayed for
two nights.
The following morning, 18 October, we went on a very successful wildlife-viewing drive during which
we saw many lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, etc. The morning after that, 19 October, we went on an
even better drive. Within twenty minutes we came to a herd of at least thirty elephants, and later in
the morning we saw a total of at least thirty additional elephants. Also saw many more of the usual
wildlife.
Zebra crossing road, Serengeti National Park
Elephant, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Camouflaged Lion, Serengeti National Park
Zebras at a water hole, Serengeti National Park