Lions, leopards and hyenas…
Monday, March 10th, 2008Dan and I decided to spend our first few days in Tanzania by doing a two-day safari. On day 1 we went to Lake Manyara and on day 2 we went to the Ngorongoro Crater. It was a huge success. We saw zebras, elephants, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, lions, hyenas, wildabeast, warthogs, a leopard and a cheetah. A female lion walked right in front of our jeep and layed down. Lions are known for being quite lazy and are not scared of the safari jeeps. It was really cool to see her close up, we could even see scratches on her face from past confrontations, perhaps with hyenas. We also got some good giraffe views and was surprised at how much their heads look like camel heads up close. They are not too pretty, but are quite cute, in an ugly sort of way. The warthogs we saw were a full family with babies, which were very adorable. After recently seeing a discovery channel documentary on the hyena, I was hoping to hear their famous cackle, but that wasn’t to be. However I can’t complain too much because I did get to hear our 20 year-old safari companions argue for about an hour about whether a zebra is black on white or white on black.
I will leave you with two great trivia questions, dan and I received from our safari mates:
What are the 10 countries in the world that have only four letter names (in English at least)?
What two countries begin with “A” but don’t end with “A”?
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