Here's a pic of two fruit bats relaxing in the afternoon sunshine in a tree in Manyara, Tanzania...


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Well, since I can't possibly post ALL the pics from Flickr to LJ (like I could not post all the photos/videos from my laptop to Flickr or YouTube)...I am done with the wildlife of Tanzania...but I would like to close with a few images of the towns and the sights....here are images from Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Manyara ( Read more... )

For three days, we had been going on both morning and evening safaris in Lake Manyara; we had seen lot of other interesting things, but of course, every tourist wishes to sight that unusual phenomenon, the tree-climbing lions of Lake Manyara ( Read more... )

Starting with crows that seem to be wearing white vests (Pied Crow) and the colourful local mynahs (the Superb Starling) in Kilimanjaro, the days in the Ngorongoro Conservation area, where the extinct volcanic crater is like a Noah's ark of animals, the days in the vast plains of the acacia-studded Serengeti, where the abundance of game just takes ( Read more... )

It's been a phenonmenal time here in Tanzania...first at the Ngorongoro Crater, and then in the Serengeti since yesterday. We started with a superb time birding in Kilimanjaro airport while we were waiting for KM's brothers to fly in...and then as we drove into the Ngorongoro Conservation area, we started with a night sighting of a leopard so close ( Read more... )