Tanzania - A journey in the Covid-19 pandemic

[Botswanadreams]

Lets continue with the Serengeti.

 

Banded Mongoose in the sun on top of a rock

 

Secretarybird

 

Our most beautiful Elephant 

 

Lion on the Rock

 

The Barafu Plains full of live

 

 

 

Our lovely couple 

 

 

Ten lionesses together on there day sleep

 

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Happy Easter Holiday

[Botswanadreams]

Jackals like to move on the road instead the high gras

 

Elephants on the move

 

 

One of the Cheetah brothers

 

 

Always worth to stop

 

A big herd of Buffalo's near Nabi Hill

 

A lioness covered with flies

 

View in the Ngorongoro Crater

 

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[Biko]

@Botswanadreamsthanks for your inspiring trip report, it helps to keep hope alive to see how some of us still manage to travel these days. I would like to strongly encourage ST members to have a look at the extensive reports on your website, such a treasure for the Easter weekend. 

I would love to go back to the Serengeti and Ndutu in particular in January or February, it’s so lush.

Looking forward to the next episode.

[Botswanadreams]

Sorry for the long silence. @Bikothank you so much for your kind comment.

 

The following pictures are from Tarangire. 

 

Red-and-yellow Barbet

 

White-bellied Go-away-bird

 

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 

 

Ostrich on the road

 

Bare-faced Go-away-bird

 

A family of Banded Mongoose on a termite hill

 

Giraffes are always beautiful

 

 

Relaxed Impalas

 

 

A few Elephants

 

Our first visit to Tarangire was in June 2015. As we left this park we said it is one of a few like Ruaha or Mana Pools we could go back tomorrow. After this visit I can't say it anymore. Every game drive was a hunting Safari - hunting Tsetse flies. Really terrible. The amount of elephants was not what we expected. No cat in three full days. Maybe it was the different time of the year. I don't know. 

 

More pics from Tarangire you can find https://www.botswanadreams.de/reisen-afrika/tanzania-2021/tanzania-2021-teil-6/ 

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by Botswanadreams

[Botswanadreams]

Mkomazi National Park

 

In 2015 we didn't have enough days to include Mkomazi. So it was clear without any question that we want to see and experience this park on this trip.

 

This is a map of Mkomazi from TANAPA to get a bit oriantation

 

This is from a little museum at Zange Gate

 

We are here on the Dindira Drive on the way back. The mountain behind the big tree are part of the Pare Mountains. Behind the last hill on the left site is the turn to Zange.

 

The view from the new Babu’s Camp in Dindira

 

View over the Supa Bowl Plains to Tsawo West National Park

 

Dindira Dam

 

View to the Usambara Mountain

 

It is enough he said. He felt we were to close.

 

Lots of Eland - sometimes mixed with Zebras, sometime with Beisa-Oryx

 

Red-Legged Golden Orb Weaver

 

Lesser Kudu

 

European Roller

 

South African Porcupine

 

Puff Adder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by Botswanadreams

[Botswanadreams]

At least the best of Mkomazi

 

This is one of the dogs from the captured breading program. More than 200 dogs are released in the wild in the Greater Tsavo Ecosystem since 2000.  

 

I thing this is the youngest Rhino in Mkomazi at the moment of our visit. Just beautiful. We don't know what happend to the mother - forgotten to ask. 

 

 

 

 

 

We had the privilege to see five Rhinos very close over half an hour. 

 

Since last year you can book a visit to the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary. Our visit was in Kisima. In the near future Kisima will be the breading Sanctuary. A new power and alarmed fenced Sanctuary north of Mbula Plains is nearly ready build. This will be than open for tourists.

 

The question of the exact number of Rhinos at Mkomazi was not answered but our Ranger says around 30. It is a huge success. 

 

- in 1997 the first 4 East African Black Rhinos came from South Africa.

- in 2001 another 4 Rhinos came from South Africa but one young bull died 2 years later

- in 2009 3 Rhinos came from Dvůr Králové in Czech Republic

- in 2012 3 Rhinos came from Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in England

- in 2016 1 Rhino came again from Dvůr Králové in Czech Republic 

 

The first Rhino calve was born in Mkomazi in 2005. What a great work Tony Fitzjohn and his whole team did. 

Now TANAPA is 100% responsible for all projects in Mkomazi and Toni Fritzjohn will concentrate on Kora NP. 

 

If you like more info's and pics from Mkomazi feel free have a look at https://www.botswanadreams.de/reisen-afrika/tanzania-2021/tanzania-2021-teil-7/.

Google translate can help you. 

 

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Edited April 16, 2021 by Botswanadreams

[Sangeeta]

Beautiful photos, Christa! Thank you for sharing. Like everyone else, I am a big fan of that mating hyena video - such an unusual sighting. Also loved your detailed info on Mkomazi. With the rhino and wild dogs here, it makes for a superb add-on to the start or end of a Tz safari. Thank you for highlighting the work they are doing 

[Biko]

Thank you so much for this inspiring trip report. I have so far never heard of Mkomazi, it is truly a beautiful place. In 2022 I hope to travel in Tanzania with our good friend and guide Kalisti, and after reading your report and enjoying your website, Mkomazi will definitely be on the list, as will Tarangire that I visited for only two days in 2008. I see there are many trip reports on your website to enjoy, which I will certainly do in the next weeks.

[RC88COR]

Beautiful photos! And nice to read about Mkomazi, the rhinos and wild dogs. The beisa-oryx is new to me. 

[Galago]

Such great photos! I was very amused to see that the mating hyenas has an 'Adult Content' screen and that I had to sign in to YouTube to see it. Safari-porn! 

[Botswanadreams]

@Galago Thanks for picking up this report again. It wasn't me with the 'Adult Content'. It was YouTube a few month after it was online. I got a mail that say have change this one. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

[Galago]

Oh no inconvenience at all @BotswanadreamsI just thought it was really funny that a video of hyenas mating should be deemed Adult Content!  Anyway, it was really interesting as I've never seen this on safari or on film. The female looks entirely uninterested in the whole procedure, doesn't she!

Thanks for a great report and also for the warning about the tsetses!

[Botswanadreams]

@Galago I just watched my slideshow from our first hyena mating in 2009. And what should I say the lady looks uninterested on this images too. Maybe it isn't fun for her at all. I don't know.  

[offshorebirder]

On 4/16/2021 at 11:49 AM, Botswanadreams said:

View to the Usambara Mountain

 

Wow

[Galana]

Just found this one and read it from start to finish. Thanks for sharing your trip with us all.

[Botswanadreams]

Thank you very much @Galana. Oh this trip was nearly two yours ago. Time is running, we are getting old and I need to smell the African bush again but not in 2023 for us. The beautiful world need our attention in other directions. 

[Galana]

I am luckier.

Tomorrow, 2nd Feb I arrivein Dar es Salaam.

[Botswanadreams]

Have a nice time in Tanzania @Galana and please report back.