Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti....a magical last few days

What an opportunity of a lifetime - to visit a Masai tribe, to exlore the vast Ngorongoro Crater (what was once a volcano that collapsed roughly 2 million years ago), and venture to the heart of the Serengeti. Throw a birthday in there and it is almost perfect. To have Lynn with me...now that would be perfect.

This area of the world is truly majestic. The footprints of the earliest hominids are found here - 3.5 million years old. The tools and fossils of early humans (homo habilis) found here - 1.75 million years old. It is an awe inspiring spectacle of historic markings mixed with the beauty of today's Masai and abundant wildlife. The great migration of the wildebeast (over a million of them) move through the Serengeti as water moves with the monsoon seasons. We witnessed the tail end of that migration, which was incredible. Zebra, giraffe, lion, ostrich, elephant, baboon, leaopard, cheetah, hyena, rhino, hippo - to name a few - speckle the landscape as far as the eye can see.

Here are just a few pictures. More to come...