Serengeti National Park

Our first full day in the Serengeti was another travel day, crossing the park toward the northwest as we headed for the Mara river near the Kenyan border.  Our target was the Akiba Kibwe camp, situated nicely near the river, the airstrip, and the Lamai wedge at the Kenyan border.  

One big change here was the huge number of wildebeest milling about, sometimes in clumps, and sometimes in long lines, as if getting ready for passport control.  We also found a pride of lions who clearly inspired the Lion King “pride rock” sequences, as they sat comfortably on a nice cool rock looking down on the world, waiting for something tasty to walk by.  We saw a broad range of antelopes as we drove by, from the impala in the woods, to their cousins the Grant and Thompson gazelle in the plains, the large topi, waterbuck, and eland, and the tiny dikdik.  The klipspringers posed beautifully on the tips of their hooves on the rocks, looking a little bit like the logo for something.  As we were leaving their area, we wondered aloud if there were any antelope we hadn’t yet seen.  Our guide pointed to a photo in the book and said that we were only lacking the rarer oribi, a smallish antelope.  As we looked at the photo, one appeared right in front of us.  After enjoying our good luck, we started to wonder what other animals we could conjure up just by paging through the Audubon guide!  

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