Tanzania Safari Report - Day 8 / Serengeti

As mentioned previously, we set out this morning to see hippos and crocs. The section of the Grumeti river where the hippos and crocs were located is a two hour drive from our camp, so we left the lodge early. On the way there, we came across three cheetah, a mother and her two one year old sons. We found them in a tree, and followed them for half an hour as they stalked some Thomson’s Gazelle. The gazelle caught wind of them (literally, the cheetah were upwind of them), and so the hunt was soon over, and we continued on our drive. The rest of the drive was uneventful and we eventually came upon the crocs and hippos. This next photo is of a large pod of hippo that we watched for awhile. Hippo apparently taste pretty good (my go to question to our driver Lee when seeing any particular species of animal was “So, how do they taste?”), and so I have decided that hippos should be referred to from now on as ‘river pigs’. That’s a lot of bacon! Fun fact: apparently one cup of Hippo fat can feed 8 people. We thought tonight’s drive was to be our final drive before our flight to Dar es Salaam tomorrow morning. It was fairly uneventful with the exception of seeing a large herd of elephant by another section of the Grumeti. We were hoping that we’d get some pictures of elephants frolicking in the river, but they did not cooperate.