After a 20
hours flight from Paris via Doha in Qatar, we landed at Kilimanjaro Airport,
somewhere in the bush and just in front of Africa’s biggest mountain. Our
guide, who was waiting for us at the exit of the terminal, drove us to the
lodge where we are going to stay for the night.
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Early on
the next morning, we leaved the lodge for a two hours trip to the national park
of Tarangire. 5 minutes after we crossed the border of the park, we saw a crowd
of 4x4 next to some shrubs, we went closer and I caught sight a giraffe for the
first time of my life!
Throughout
the day we took pictures of hundreds of antelopes, zebras, birds, gnu and also
a few elephants. It was an incredible first day! Our only regret was not having
seen any feline (it was very hot that day, most of the animals preferred to lay
in the shade of trees)
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The next
two days we went to the lac Manyara and the crater of Ngorongoro. All these
parks were so different each other! The park of Lake Manyara was composed of a
dense forest on the side of a mountain which leads to a huge lake with
flamingos as far as the eye can see. We met a family of lions on the shores of
the lake, with four soooo cute lion cubs.
The crater
of Ngorongoro is 20km large and 600 meters deep. This natural amphitheatre makes
us feel very small when we are in it. There were just a few trees in the crater,
located around the few water points of the park. The rest of the crater was
only rocks and grass burned by the sun.
We’ve slept
in a camp next to a village called Olduvai, and managed by the Massaïs. It was definitely
the most beautiful place I stayed for the night in my life, even if the comfort
was minimal. Look at this unbelievable view from the tent!
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On the next
morning, we climbed into our 4x4 to reach the probably most famous African
natural park, stay in tune to discover it…
Hello Nicolas,
RépondreSupprimerThank you for this article, it was really interesting and well written to me. As you, I’ve always been fascinated by Safaris. I think the contact with the nature and the animals is something you can’t find
Elsewhere.
However I have questions for you: what was the most impressive animal you've seen? And was this travel the best you have made in your life?
Loic #13
Hi Loïc,
RépondreSupprimerI think that the most impressive animal I've seen is the lion! But each animal of the savannah is in its own way impressive, for example when you see thousands of zebras running away because a few lions were spotted not very far, it's was stuning scene!
This trip was definitly the best of my life, and I'm not sure I'm going to do an other one like this in the years to come!
Thanks for your comment :)
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