Safari Vacation in Tanzania - Day 6 (last day)

April 6, 2012

Today we go to Lake Manyara National Park. 

We say goodbye to the crater.  None of the photos do justice as the sky, clouds, and mist blend together.  

In the Lake Manyara National Park, it is a bit different.  More vegetation, trees especially.  This is because of the volcanic activity that laid a very hard layer just under the surface in the more northern parts we were in, so it is more difficult for trees to grow, so you get more grasses.

We had to stop in town to leave the flat tire that we had the other day and this truck pulled in.  

Back on Safari  - It is a Monkey. 

a lizard 

 with the baby riding bare-back in the sitting up position

versus the tight reverse hold

or the no-hands required

and you might wonder what this is?

Well, that is a Baboon in heat.   Pretty attractive...hum 

Here are some birds and those black and white striped things.

and more Hippos chowing down some grub

Another one of those Dik-Dics.  They are so cute.

Ok, Lake Manayra  Flamingos.  That is as close as we get. No, not the Giraffes, the little pink things in the back.   Notice the Giraffe laying down.  Don't see this too often.

and a Toucan

Getting our final debriefing at the lodge

 
All the Serena Lodges have been very nice.

Is this not the coolest pool ?

Having fun in the pool

and on the way back to the airport to fly out.
  Memories of the Entrepreneurship of Africa.  I don't see poverty.  I see people doing what they can to make a living and do better for themselves.

And the list of all the animals, birds, etc that we saw:
Hyrex is small mole looking one
Cheetah
Hippo in water and on land
Lion
Leopard
Dik-dik
Gazelle grant.
Gazelle Thompson with black underbelly stripe
Impala
Elephant
Guinea fowl
Buffalo
Giraffe
Wildebeest
Mongoose
Crocodile
Zebra. If brown then female
Baboon
Black faced velvet monkey
Secretary bird
Marabou white bellied bird
Ostrich
Wart hog  -( Pumba)
Stork
Hyena
Termite
Tsetse fly
Mosquito
Vulture
Love Birds
Bat eared fox
Elim
Egyptian geese
Flamingo
Korey bustard.  Bird.
Crowned crane. Frilly headu
Black smith plover small black and   white
Egrit
Abdim stork. Small white body black head
Black Rhino
Hardebeest
Black headed heron. Bluish with long neck.
Spur wing geese. Black upper, white belly, red head
Gray headed king fisher
Water buck
Great white pelican
Squaco hero
Yellow bellied stork
Marabuv stork
Spoon billed stork
Cattle Egret
Spur winged geese
Ground horn bill
Trumpet horn bill
Red and yellow barbot
Jackal
Topi
Eland
Black Kite
Yellow billed oxpecker
Lappet faced vulture
Masai Ostrich
Ring necked dove
banded mongoose
Monitor Lizard
Afghan White backed Vulture
Superb Starling
Wattled starling
Crowned Plover
Lilac breasted Roller
African Pied Wagtail
Coke hartebeest
Sunbird/Bee eater
long tailed black starling
White necked raven
Pied Crow
Drongo
Saddle billed stork
Von der Decken's HornbillDung Beetle
Sand Beetle
Chameleon
Spotted Wood Dove
Tawny Eagle
Ruaha (red billed) Hornbill
Bushbaby
Honeysuckle bird

That is the end of the Safari.