Safari – Day 2 – Ngorogoro Sopa Lodge

Wow, we had a really full day today on our drive from the Serengeti Plains to the Ngorongoro Crater where we are stating on the rim at the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

In addition to yesterdays wildlife today we saw:

1) Hippopotamus
2) Crested Eagle
3) Secretary Bird
4) Shrike Eagle
5) Egret
6) Ducks (oooh)
7) Cory Buster
8) Harteebeast
9) Ostrich (but they were far away)
10) Grand Gazelle
11) Thomson Gazelle
12) Starling
13) Zebras
14) Wildebeast
15) Cheetah with 4 cubs
16) Lions so close we could have reached out and pet them and lost an arm. And a big male lion trying to make new small lions (on HD video of course)

After that we had a 3 hour further drive to Ngorongoro. Along the way we stopped at a Masai village where they sang us a welcome song and Liz danced with the women and I jumped with the men (another kind of dance).

inside one of their huts we learned that it is made of branches, twigs, grass and held together with cow dung. Maybe they could have told us before we were sitting inside?

Finally they showed us their ‘nursery’ school for the kids. The kids sang us the ABCs and then we were quickly escorted out of the village. I hope it wasn’t because of my negotiation skills for some trinkets.

We are sitting in our room now; liz is writing in her journal, I am working on this blog and a buffalo (responsible for the most human fatalities) is sitting only a few feet outside our window eating shrubs.

I love this place!