We drove further north and west into the Serengeti today. We drove and drove and drove looking for animals and saw many. The drive coming off the crater rim down the flank of the volcano was breath-taking, as we drove along grassy hills and mountains, watching Maasai bomas, zebras, and lots of giraffes. Imagine driving down a road and having to stop, not to let dear cross, but 25 giraffes! They are so large, but very graceful. We also saw them run, which appears to be in slow motion.
As we worked our way to the savanna we began to see more wildebeest, gazelles, and lions. We saw hundreds of thousands of antelope and wildebeest on the plain. It made me think that the U.S. plains probably looked similar 300-400 years ago with buffalo and antelope. Pity. We saw about a dozen lions. There pretty hard to see when they are laying down flat on their sides. The grass is about as high as their bodies. But we saw males, females, and the hint of a cub. We saw elephants, more birds, a mozambique spitting cobra, but sill the leopard and cheetah evaded us. We stayed at Lobo Lodge in the far northern part of the park, about 30 minutes from Kenya. This lodge was situated in between rock outcroppings. It was very Frank Lloyd Wright-ish with the rocks and trees incorporated into the lodge. Some rocks actually served as walls to the common areas.
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