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If we’re not on a game drive, we’re eating.
Dinner under the gazebo at Sasakwa
One Male, Two lionesses and four cubs each.
Gratuitous pool shots. Sasakwa Lodge is a masterpiece.
It came two weeks early, but we feel we’re lucky that way. We were within a mile when we began to hear them, like frogs in the night. It’s one of the seven natural wonders in the world. This first wave numbered 30,000. When all is done, two million will bulldoze their way through the plains. Nature’s lawnmower.
Coffee to start. The set up is always elaborate. An elephant walks across the plain before sunrise. Never a bad sunset. Heading across the German Bridge, built by the Germans during World War I. Another Bull Elephant.
Pictures don’t do this place justice. Perched on a hill overlooking the Serengeti plains, Sasakwa has no equal. Our villa.
No matter how high our expectations, they could have never been exceeded. It only took two and a half days to fall in love with camp, the food, the location, and most of all, the staff. Sonia is not to cry very easily, but the tears were flowing as we pulled away.
This does not end well for the Cape Buffalo. It was primitive, brutal and the most excruitiatingly difficult scene I have ever witnessed. We were called lucky for having seen it. Anyone who knows me would agree that my love and empathy for animals of any kind is beyond your run of the mill animal lover. But as I reflect nearly twenty four hours…
I couldn’t possibly describe how incredible the night sky in the Serengeti is. I’ve been lucky enough to witness some brilliant night skies in Alaska, but nothing compares to what we’ve seen in the middle of these plains. The moon doesn’t make an appearance until well after dark, so every constellation is visible. To see the milky way in all of its glory with…
After a successful afternoon drive, our guide drove us to a hilltop where our camp’s staff had set up the greatest bonfire and bar I have ever seen.
The odds of seeing one of the two rhinos on the 350,000 acre reserve was, to say the least, against us. But Sonia and I tend to be lucky. The rhino makes four out of the big five. Only the leopard remains. At the current poaching rate, rhinos will be extinct in the next couple of years. The Chinese, and even more so the…
Our guide was tracking a rhino when we were surprised from behind by a herd of thirty elephants.
We found the elephants down on the plain and had a much closer encounter.
Our first elephant sighting. Three of the big five in the books. We did some major off-roading as our guide tracked a heard of elephants in to the thick of a hillside.
Hard to take a picture of the experience that is waking up in a tent in the middle of the Serengeti. Harder to describe it. It’s a feeling. A feeling that I could never tire of. They make coffee an unforgettable experience.
I’m always my own travel agent. I do a lot of research, but I had no idea what we were in for. I knew I booked an exclusive mobile tent camp, but I didn’t know that exclusive meant just Sonia and I. Upon arrival, we were met by a staff of seven that informed us they were there for our every want and need. …
We landed on a small dirt landing strip at the base of a hill in the Serengeti. We were immediately met by our guide, Aloyse. He is a native Tanzanian who has been a guide for Signita for the last seven years. We will be staying at one camp and two lodges over the next eight nights. “Singita Grumeti, situated adjacent to the Serengeti…
No one hates a graduation ceremony more than I. But today the two seconds of pride when Brittany was called up to receive her diploma made me forget about the two hours of utter torture. The icing on the cake was the after party. I don’t think Brittany will soon forget the expression of love from each and every member of her family. I…
I think we screwed up the yeast. Time will tell.
Our Yearly Playlist 