I asked our guide/driver to stop the vehicle so I could get out and photograph this dramatic storm that was headed our way.
April's photo safari to Tanzania saw us rained on every day of the 2-week trip. Fortunately, once in a while the rains came at night, but there were a couple of major daytime downpours that forced us to cut our outings short. Even with 4-wheel-drive, the massive amounts of rain made driving difficult. There were no roads, just paths worn in the grasslands by other vehicles.
The Serengeti is located primarily in northern Tanzania, although a small part extends into southwestern Kenya. The Serengeti covers about 12,000 square miles (30,000 square kilometers). The name derives from a Maasai word meaning "endless plains."
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This adult male lion appears to be smiling. Maybe it's because he had a good dream. He and his two brothers had just awakened from an afternoon nap to be well rested for a night of hunting.
My group found the brothers early the following morning, several miles awy, finishing off the carcass of a wildebeest they had killed during the night.
The action happened in Tanzania.
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My eye was drawn to this scene on the Serengeti of Tanzania by the colors and textures. A big storm was on the way, as evidenced by the dark, moody clouds. But the sun was still bright enough to cast shadows and light up the grass, revealing its colors and textures.
A zebra walks through the lush grass inside Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. Unlike zebra and wildebeests outside the crate, animals inside the crate do not take part in the annual migration.
The crater is the world's largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. The crater was formed when a volcano erupted and collapsed 2 to 3 million years ago. It is 2,000 feet deep. The crater floor is mostly open grasslands, and is home to a variety of animals, including Cape buffalo, elephants, zebras, lions and other animals except for giraffes.
A wildebeest is silhouetted against the setting sun on a plain in Kenya's Maasai Mara. More than 1.5 million wildebeests, along with countless zebra, migrate in a huge loop through Kenya and Tanzania each year. They face dangers such as crocodiles, lions and cheetahs, as well as legs broken in the crush of animals trying to hurry across rivers with steep banks.
