Happy New Year everyone!
Our day started early, as in 5am. We had to pack our stuff and have breakfast before leaving for our game drive down in the crater. Getting up this early allowed us to witness a very nice sunrise, by a cool morning (altitude of about 2000 m). There was also a lot of fog in the crater, so we couldn't see the bottom from the top.
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| First sunrise of 2014 |
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| Early morning on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater |
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| Good morning, sunshine! |
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| An eagle flying by |
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| I wonder how many pictures were taken that day??? |
We (our guide, with some help from us) packed up all our stuff, we had a quick breakfast and headed out to the crater. A 25 minute drive took us down to the
caldera (. By the time we got there, fog had lifted a bit, even though we couldn't yet see the rim all the way around.
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| Fog inside the crater (behind the tents, with the rim on the opposite side) |
Once in the crater, we saw many animals and birds. We saw hyenas and a few rhinos; two kinds of animals we hadn't really seen so far on this safari. We stayed in the crater until about noon, had lunch before leaving then took the five hour drive back to Arusha. That was the end of our safari trip. All agreed that it had been the trip of a lifetime. It was so great!
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| Time to pack it in! |
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| Clouds hanging around the rim of the crater |
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| Zebra having breakfast |
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| Lunch, with our guide showing us on a map where we've been in the last few days |
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| Baboons, slowing us down! |
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