Friday, January 31, 2014

For the last few days we have been on a safari, traveling through parks like the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area and the Serengeti  Plains. We have been seeing lots of wild animals and the wildebeests are migrating right now so we have been seeing thousands and thousands of them.

 We have also been seeing lots of elephants and we have a video of a small group of them along the side of the road.

 

 

 

 

We have been using a 4 wheel drive land cruiser to explore the national parks and we also have a driver/tour guide named Donald who keeps us informed about the animals.   We drive in the truck for 8-9 hours each day.  It is very hot with no AC.

 

                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serengeti Plains:

 
Serengeti in Swahili means endless plains and it was formed when 7 big volcanoes blew up (Ngorongoro was one of them) and the rocks and ash from them filled in the space between the mountains forming the plains. We have been exploring the plains the for the last few days and here are some pictures of the animals we have seen.

 

 

 

 

 

Ngorongoro Crater:

The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest ancient caldera in the world (which is a volcano that has exploded and then collapsed).  Before It collapsed 2 million years ago, it was one of the world’s tallest mountains. The crater has steep walls on all sides and is 19 kilometers across and the edge is about 2000 feet above the floor of the crater.  It is a World Heritage Site that is called Africa’s Garden of Eden because it has thousands of wild animals in it including lions, wildebeests, zebras, lions, elephants and buffaloes. We will be seeing it in a couple of days.

-Kiva