The (Empty) Serengeti...

Was The Lion King wrong? Millions of Zebra and Wildebeast? Maybe our timing was off?

Arusha is the starting point for all Safari's into the Serengeti and Ngorogoro crater and we had high hopes while setting up camp. The next day we were going to see all these animals up close and personal!

Well, we started off well by seeing Giraffe's befre we even got into the Serengeti park. Beautiful animals, and so fluid when they run.

After checking in at the park and going through, it was like the plains of Canada. Flat and EMPTY! Well, maybe not quite, the scenery was amazing but it really was empty.

(I'll put pictures in later once we have a faster connection.)

We held our hopes up for the Crater but when we were descending into it, you can really see there wasn't much there. I'm not sure how it would look at the high times but this was definitely not what we expected. We also didn't expect to be so far away from the animals. You need to stay on the roads and most times the animals are pretty far away. Without binoculars you can't make anything out.

Again the scenery was beautiful and I'm glad we went. I just hope we'll be able to see more animals up close.