Serengeti

Elephant family crossing the road

Serengeti National Park is always an inspiring experience. It is the vast openness of the plains, the variety and numbers of animals, roaming free in their natural environment. Serengeti is always changing, never the same, depending on the rains, which affects the growth of the grasses and where the animals are.

Herds of zebra, always on the move

Giraffe, always graceful, curious, friendly

From the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, looking into the crater

We drove through Serengeti last weekend - it is on the main road from Musoma to Arusha. It takes us through Serengeti, through the barren area of Olduvai Gorge, where some of the earliest human fossils were discovered, then up and over Ngorongoro Crater, then down into Arusha. I began to wonder, is this what the Garden of Eden was like? Not hard to imagine it. I never really tried to imagine how big the Garden of Eden was. The road we traveled was about 100 miles in the park, which can take 3 hours total if you drive the 50 km/hr speed limit and stop occasionally to view animals.