On the last day of the tour, we visited a Maasai village. The Maasai are a patriarchal society covered by a set of oral law. They worship a single deity called Enkai who has a dual nature: both a benevolent and a vengeful side. The Maasai are known for their intricate jewelry. Their main food… Read More Visit to a Maasai Village

Four out of the 11 of us chose to do a hot air balloon ride. I have been in a hot air balloon in both Turkey and Egypt. It’s really a unique experience. The cost of the ride in Kenya as far as I was concerned was outrageous. Another interesting thing was how they loaded… Read More On Safari in Maasai Mara

After breakfast, we made our way north to Maasai Mara which is the part of the Serengeti in Kenya. After we crossed the border, we went to a small air strip to finish the rest of the journey by plane. Here are some pictures of the drive up to Kenya and the flight Here are… Read More On the Way to Maasai Mara

Our activity for today was to take a canoe ride to a fishing village and learn about the culture of that place.  The village is governed by 12 elected people, six are women and six are male. We visited a fish market, helped make polenta and met with a medicine man. The polenta was… Read More Our Day at Lake Victoria

Today we drove through the western section of the Serengeti as we left the park on our way to Lake Victoria. Here are the pics. Here come the giraffes. Multitudes of wildebeest. We stumbled on what is sometimes called the great migration. The wildebeest migration is not really a migration per se but a circular… Read More Next stop Victoria Lake

1/3 of the park is grassy Plains. The rest is woodland, river line forest, rocky hills and rivers. The volcanic soils in its plains were laid down 3 to 4,000,000 years ago, being a product of volcanic ashes blowing from the near by crater highlands. The depth of the soil is shallow so trees have… Read More Our Day in Serengeti National Park

Today we drove from the rim of the crater to our lodge in Serengeti National Park. On the way we made a stop at the Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai Gorge is a famous archaeological ravine in northern Tanzania known as the “cradle of humankind” for its rich fossil records of early human evolution. Louis and Mary Leakey explored this… Read More On the way to the Serengeti

This day we spent over eight hours exploring the Ngorongoro crater which has a total area of over 3000 mi.². The elevation of the floor of the creator is 5900 feet and the elevation at the rim is 7500 feet. It is also the home of over 40,000 Maasai who are mostly herders. It was… Read More Inside the Ngorongoro Grater

Today we made our way to the Ngorongoro crater, making a stop at a village to learn something about the way of life in these villages. This village had rice patties and banana plantations. People own their houses and individual plots of land. They grow a number of varieties of bananas and one of the… Read More On the Road to the NgorongoroCrater.